Measuring Hacks | I Can Do That!
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Accuracy makes a difference in woodworking, so how you measure things - and the tools you use - can make or break a project. Learn the ins-and-outs of a nice selection of measuring tools (and tricks to using them) as David Lyell gives a tour of I Can Do That Measuring Hacks.
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I like how he's showing cheaper tools then most woodworkers have, he's got basic tools with basic tools you learn skill, as you get better and want to do more projects or become a professional you might move into highter end tools.
They will take different skill sets you build onto your previous learned foundation. You can drive a yougo, and hope to own a Lamborghini later.
The yougo will get you there eventually but the Lamborghini will be fast and in style. You dont need to spend a lot of money on tools, I started one of my first home made projects just using a skill type saw. Ive still got that bookcase.
Its 40 years old.
But I learned woodworking in junior highschool and high school.
My dad built ceder strip canoes 55 years ago I helped he did it with an old craftsman table top table saw.
He built a lot of boats. We would strap them to the station wagon and take them down to the river and use them once or twice, funny thing is he gave most of them away. I dont have any of them.
The slider on the folding rule is also a depth guage
The combination and speed square can also be used to draw a parallel line to the reference edge.
Plywood for the US market, unless you specify to the contrary, is predominantly from Canada, Mexico,China, Russia and the Baltic states of Europe. They all have in common the fact that they are METRIC, 18mm not 23/32", 12mm, not 15/32" and 6mm not 7/32". 115/16"minus 23/32 is harder than I want to work, 50mm - 18mm I can do every day.
Nice video. My respects to you for being able to get usable measurements with a bending flexible tape measure where the ends move. I am lucky if I can get my accuracy down to 1/25 of an inch (1mm) with a tape measure, but usually, it is way more off. I guess it comes down to what you are used to using, as you say. Something a bit sturdier works better for a Mr. butterfingers like me, especially when making joints - it does not forgive my mistakes very well 😊
I use a stick more to shoot heights with an optical level, or transfer marks around a floor, or to shoot laser lines for embed layouts
One steel rule that I find most useful is the hook rule. It has a metal block on the end that hooks over the edge of a piece, thus there is no need to carefully align the end of the rule with the edge. Agree with the engineer's square; I have 3 sizes.
A square can also be used as a depth gauge. A speed square can also be used to mark angles other than 45. When figuring board feet, 4 quarter does not measure 1 inch and 5 quarter does not measure inch-and-a-quarter. 5 quarter refers to the board before it was planed so it measures 1 inch after planing although you will be charged for inch-and-a-quarter.
Not really true. 4/4 is rough sawn and that is what you mostly find at a sawyer.
5.5 x 2.708 interesting mix of metric and imperial units!! Metric is so much easier
good job thanks
Thank you for the video, but why does the hardboard top still have slight gaps in it? Wasn't that one of the reasons why it was built as a torsion box?
You can adjust that ruler if it is only off by a little, just run the ends on a belt sander a little at time and check that it is in sync with your other rules.
When I layout lines and I want to have closer tolerance’s I will use a marking knife because it has a more definitive line.
I maybe a bit anal but I use digital Calipers in the wood shop too.
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I'm from the UK, if that makes a difference, but I cannot access any of the links to plans your website etc. Maybe the "new" data laws doesn't allow it?
One neat trick with the folding rule is that you can use it to copy angles from one peace to another (say that you have a large board outside and you like to reuse that angle at the table-saw in your shop). Fold the rule twice so that it points back to the scale (like a triangle). The angle between the first and second part of the rule will correspond to where the end of the ruler touches the scale. Repeat the setup in the shop and you have a copy of the angle from outside.
Please, put the pencil on the measured dot, then move the square to the pencil. Otherwise you are adding error. Also, turn the folding rule on edge to measure exactly.
Clinometer for android also there are calcuator apps for fraction computation and ' " calcs
In Europe where I was born, we used metric , then, moved to Canada, and was given some archaic measurement to learn and use. Then finally went back to metric, just so much more easy and accurate in all four catagories, X - + / of measurement.
The foot/inch method is still used ,because of some thing to do with American football, political,or too lazy to make the switch...... go figure!
Also I have come to appreciate on how the foot /inch came about ....... some king back in the day, of serfs and barons, decided to use his body anatomy as a standard of measurement. Probably the reason on why the Americans never went back to the moon! ...... only kidding (((((on the moon part..... why didn't they?) )))!
Remember that the Imperial measuring system kicked the users of MandM's in the butt.
M question is: When making your marking on your board, which side do you cut on the right side, left side or in the middle?
I usually cut to the right of the mark (waste side). I line of the very edge of the saw blade to be right next to my mark on the waste side. If you are framing it's not as crucial. If you cut on the line you have to account for the blade thickness so you will most likely be off by 1/16 or a tad more depending on blade thickness. Again for larger projects no big deal but precise fits i line the blade just to side of my mark.
There are many factors that may contribute such as: thickness of marking device, method used to measure distance (tape measure vs wood block or pattern), square placement relative to mark (which side is scrap relative to board being cut), plus many others I failed to consider.
Simply answer is to mark your cut line then remeasure and verify where the edge of the saw blade is required to achieve the desired length. Once your confident, cut the board and remeasure another time to verify result.
After you discovered the sequence that produced a positive result, remain consistent with your methodology and you should remain consistent with your results.
YES! depends on the required outcome.
I only use tape measure with autolock, much more easier to use.
Is there a speed square in metric?
Alfred Neumann Woodpeckers offers all their products in metric or standard...
Alfred Neumann Have you tried looking up "speedsquare metric"? :) Try Irwin first.
Yes, Tome4kkk, i have. But i'm in Germany. In hardwarestore speedsquares are absolutely unknown :-(
Of course i tried it over Ama...... Here is the problem, in any case, where a speedsquare is offered in metric, the picture shows an inch-version. And the comments all says, they got inch-versions instead of metric. I don't believe, that there are metrics, till someone send me one. Cheerio from Germany.
Alfred Neumann Swanson, Irwin and Stanley offer metric speed squares. Look for them online. Also try contacting Germany-based Dictum.
Alfred Neumann Here's an active Allegro (Polish eBay equivalent) offer allegro.pl/ShowItem2.php?item=7481739894 Let me know if you need help contacting the Allegro user.
You didn't mention the left handed tape measure. Seriously there is such a thing.
What's up Wayne I love my Fast Cap reads both ways.
What's up Wayne
Got one. I keep it right next to my left handed crescent wrench.
Jim Welton Fastcap makes a left/ right Flat tape it has a green outer label.
NO, at 7:30 is definitely not how you use a speed-square to measure an angle.
Rob Biedenharn I caught that one too.
And I feel that one vital instrument that he overlooked was the Framing Square.
Math without thinking! :)
Don't know 'bout youn's I like to carry a rollup ruler. Or as better said.
I carry a Tape as A Rule....
Also you forgot the most important one on any job site and that is KNOWLEDGE of how the read a Tape measure.
In England we use cm & mm so metric is an English rule
In the U.K construction industry we use Metre and millimetre e.g. 2.365. That way there is no way of slipping a decimal. If you do it is very obvious. You get 20 yards or 8 inches - approximately. Haberdashers use centimetres, which I find confusing …
2x4 is 3 and 5/8. Video even shows it
Luther Blankenship 3 1/2
@@seancase1543 14 min 29 sec. Your holding tape measure not strait. It shows 3 and 5/8 if you straitened tape up. I've thousands of 2x4s. There all 3 and 5/8
Maybe you got rough cut 2 x 4’s
Harbor freight tape measure is probably trash as soon they finish fabricating it.
Use metrics and you wont have problems with maths
I really hate it when demonstrators obscure a feature when trying to point it out while talking about it. 2:05. Let us see the hook; don't put your hand over it or move it out of the frame when you're trying to explain how it's different from the others.
you must not be of legal drinking age, there is bottle opener built in on every speed square.
Andrew Amdts, Nice to let us know!
six foot slip joint zig zag extension rule
.......and next year when your in second grade we'll cover calipers and the compass!!
go to metric, easy to add, no fractions.
sween187 yes but sucks for dividing numbers. I can get thirds all day- how you gonna work with 3.3333333
Besides, fractions aren't that bad
Metric is not better it is just dumbing down. There have been 3 empires built on the back of imperial, The Roman Empire, The British Empire and the American business Empire. Metric has done nothing as they dumb things down.
Tony Papantoniou didn't consider that, but it's true! Gotta love imperial. Once you learn it you see the beauty and usefulness of it- especially when building things.
Metric was designed by scientists wanted to divide everything by 10 they came a cropper with circles 360 degrees is a magical number ut can be divided by most numbers exceot 7 and 9. A foot is the average mans foot, a pint is what the average man's stomach can hold, an inch the thickness of ones thumb. Take millimetres the measuremeant of the north pole to equator and chopped up to create millimetres, what an abomination no one can relate to it. Metric has accomlished nothing but confusion.
no mm
Very bush...