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By Philip C. Lowe #229–Nov/Dec 2012 Issue. Synopsis: Keep a 12-in. combo square and a 4-in. double square near your workbench and you’ll find you reach for them often, whether you are measuring and laying out parts, checking to see if surfaces are flat and square, fitting dovetails, tuning up power tools, or performing any of an infinite ...
Synopsis: Digital angle gauges, also called inclinometers, measure the angle of tilt after being zeroed to a reference surface. They have a magnetized base that makes them easy to attach to most machine tables, fences, and blades in the shop. Woodworkers use them for tasks that range from setting the bevel on a sawblade to setting up a honing ...
The triangle cost a couple of dollars each. They would certainly serve very well as the "standard" in any woodworking shop to validate and/or adjust other devices. An excellent way to validate the accuracy of the plastic squares is to use two squares on a flat surface. Get a $10-12 plastic 30-60-90 drafting square.
The overall length of the tape is 3.5 Metres or about 12 feet. It's marked in inches on one edge, and metric on the other edge. The continuous metric is marked off in millimetre divisions, and there are approximately 25mm per inch, and 1000 mm over about 39-3/8".
In other words an engineering square with a calibration certificate. Probably way too far to go in a home workshop but buy a half decent engineers square and use that as a reference too. If you want to use the idea in the video then use an engineers square first to determine that the board used isn't going to give you a false reading.
These are the tools he keeps within easy reach and uses almost every day: 12-in. combination square, framing square, 4-in. engineer’s square, 12-foot tape measure, 6-in. straight rule, marking knife, pencils, dial caliper, marking gauge, bevel gauge, and scratch awl. As important as any hand or powered cutting tool, these tools are essential ...
A retractable tab keeps the square level, a spring-loaded pin indexes the head at every inch mark, and there are scribing notches at every 1⁄16-in. mark. In many of its squares and rules Woodpeckers has included scribing notches that let you drop your pencil into a fixed position to scribe an accurate mark or a full line parallel to an edge ...
Tom McLaughlin discusses the layout tools he turns to every day: tape measure, rules, squares, gauges, knives, and markers. Good marking and measuring tools are essential to fine work. The hand tools that cut and shave—planes, chisels, saws, and spokeshaves— tend to get all the glamour and attention. But even the most precise work with ...
To speed up this process, I added a fence to the end of the track, turning it into a long T-square of sorts. That lets me simply press the fence against the workpiece and align it with a single pencil mark. I fastened the fence to the bottom of my track with a 3/8-in.-dia. dowel through an existing hole and a T-nut in the slot under the track.
Tuning a square like this is a matter of carefully filing or sanding down the registration nubs inside the slot the ruler sits in. You can learn more about how to use a combination square in this article from this month’s issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine.