Adam Savage's Favorite Tools: Angle Finder!
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
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Adam shares a critical woodworking tool that is also a relatively inexpensive piece of kit! A cheat $3 angle finder helps you match an exact angle of any part you're working with to another piece of material, whether it's wood, plastic, or metal. And if you can find one, Adam loves his antique cast steel angle finder, called the Angulus!
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I have the exact same “angulus”. It was my grandfather’s who passed away some years ago and along with some of his other tools, it now sits in my toolbox. It still smells like my grandfather’s shop, probably because he used to use a lot of grease and oil to keep his tools in shape. As a young man he started his career as a blacksmith working on trains here in Belgium and he truly was a maker. He kept making things right up to the end and I learned a lot from him.
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How does this mechanism work for getting it to stay rigid?
My father had one way back when earth was young, i immediately remembered that tool as i saw Adam holding it. He might still have it, i haven't seen it in years. I may need to call and ask. Damn...
Came here to say almost the same thing. I was too young to really remember my grandfather using a lot of his tools but I have acquired a lot of them now and use them regularly. Theres something very rewarding about making something that I k ow has been used by my own family and I can then pass it on to my kids because it's still better than the stuff you can buy today
"A tool that you wanna use, is a tool you're gonna use."
These are words I live by!
It's shocking how much more often I wear my safety glasses since I bought a quality prescription pair.
I got one already Uncle Adam
An analogy of a penis
My father, who was a lifelong carpenter passed a couple years ago. It has been really therapeutic to work with his tools in so many ways. His steel angle finder was in the first handful of things I wanted to make sure we kept, because he held it so often.
Also called a sliding bevel if you’re searching for one
That’s what I was about to say :-)
Yep. +1. I've known it as a sliding T bevel. They rock
Or "Bevel Gauge". Never heard it called an "angle finder".
I call it a "verstelbare haak", I live and work in the Netherlands 😁🏴🇳🇱
Kind of highlights the fun of regional tool usage and dialect.
Growing up on the east coast of Canada I knew that as a 'Try Angle', and it went along with the fixed right angle 'Try Square'. Tools used for 'trying' [testing] if something is laid out or assembled to a specific angle. Which couldn't possibly be confused with triangle...
Made trying to find some after moving to the west coast 'fun' when I was drawing a blank on sliding T/Bevel/T Bevel.
Hey Adam. Love your videos. I just came to have use for a c. 1920's lawn roller (its a forged steel beast) thats been in the woods on my property for decades. The square bung was completely rust welded on, and of some mild steel that doesn't take a tool well. At a local antique tool store I picked up a "bung wrench", date-stamped 1927. I was able to hammer it onto the bung, chiseling a new edge to torque on, attach a cheat pipe to it and finally get this bolt loose. The wrench? Its patina'd... it shows absolutely no signs of me having beaten it to death with a hammer or it having chiseled its way to making a new nut. Its from a time when American steel was something to behold. I LOVE this tool. It even has a pin hole in the base of the handle to gain leverage when turning the mechanism to release something like a bung nut wedged into a wrench that was hammered onto it!
I’m a builder in the Marine corps, I have a tool room and I have that, never known what it was, inventoried it countless times, struggled with angles, this video sparked a gigantic smile on my face and I can’t wait to go back to work to show my guys what I just learned!! Thank you Adam, always resourceful
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I'd call that a sliding t-bevel....an "angle finder" would actually have a scale or digital readout and give you the actual angle in whatever units it is designed for.
Agreed but im assuming you can extend the "fin" fully out, put it the angle you wanna measure and put the rigid side to the compound mitre saw fence and line the blade up with the "fin" and cut. Digital/scale would be better but i guess better then eyeballing it
Yup. Sliding t bevel.
I've got a few in my tool boxes, got a really nice wood and brass one from a company called Lee Valley
Amazon sells a t-bevel, with a digital readout, $20
It’s an angle finder to me and has been for 40 years
So would I, it is the actual name.
We have a few but my favourite has to be the one that belonged to my great grandfather - oiled rosewood, stainless steel and brass. Part of his cabinet making tools we still have, including the toolbox he made to keep them in. Treat them well and good tools are heirlooms :)
I have two, My larger one is the modern Japanese version of the Angulus made by Shinwa out of aluminum/steel (I love having the knob at the end). The smaller one I ended up making myself. To say that I use them a lot is a gross understatement.
I've been looking at the shinwa one. You'd recommend it?
@@cholulahotsauce6166 Definitely. I bought it years ago and it was between a Crowne (I think) and the Shinwa. There were really nice expensive models made by Veritas and Bridge City that were out of my price range. The Shinwa is simple and no frills but gets the job done. The thing I like is no wing nut/knob to get in the way when flipping it over. For marking out dovetails and such, it tends to be bulky at 10". That is why I made my mini one.
I have long wanted a Shinwa version, I’m told they hold there setting better. For those unfamiliar with the brand, Shinwa is about the quality equivalent of Starrett and in Japan their squares are as ubiquitous as the Stanley powerlock steel tape.
One "best bang/buck" tool I always recommend is a Shinto rasp. Wonderful for hand-shaping wood and for
I got one of the flipping Shinto models for a dollar. It's OK. I'd take a decent rasp over it any day. But decent rasps can set you back quite a few bucks. Quite honestly in this day and age you're best off with a rotary rasp. Even the cheap rotary rasps are amazing.
I totally agree, Adam! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Worked as an electrician for a few years and 5/16 hex-head self-tapping screws were the perfect solution to so many sheet metal problems. Had to make sure to turn the hammer off on the drill or it could twist the hex-head off of the screw.
I inherited one from my grandfather. Not only is it an excellent tool for my workshop but it also serves as a reminder good childhood memories 😁
I think it feels special to think of all the jobs an old tool was used on, all the hours of care and attention someone gave their projects with that tool. Or in my case used to hastily bodge together something
As a carpenter I have a digital version of this, also know as a sliding T bevel square. I measure and map out an entire floor of a house when I'm doing casing and baseboard complete with checking the angle of every inside and outside 90 before I make any cuts. The digital version is worth it since almost no corner is going to be a true 90 after framing, drywall and mudding and taping are taken into account. Saves so much time not fighting to close up those gaps!
Contour Gauge: My brother got me a contour gauge for my birthday. It's a cheap tool and it's pretty cool. It consists of a bunch of pins aligned tightly together but able to slide. Similar to the angle finder the contour gauge can be pressed up to an object, like crown molding for example, and hold the contour shape, allowing the user to then transfer that shape to another object.
I just used my cheap version last weekend while making a decorative fence! Probably one on the first wood working tools I ever purchased new. I think I found it at one of those "dollar stores" when they first started to become common placed.
I've used it numerous times and it has not failed me yet.
I have one for woodworking. So glad I got one when we were building our cottage. So many angles
I love seeing old and antique tools. It gives you an idea of how they problem solved in the past. Sometimes the tools they developed are still used today because it's probably the best solution to a particular task/problem that arise even in modern times. That amazes me. Haha.
My uncle taught me how to do this with a carpenter's folding ruler, simply make a triangle where two sides is your angle and the third side gives you a point of referance to remake the angle somewhere else.
I'd long forgotten about that! Thank you!
What a great tip! Thanks!
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Video that shows it :)
@@MrGlennJohnsen Super cool! Thank you!
Found this video after picking up an identical Angulus at a flea market. Beautifully made, solid piece of kit - 312g (11oz). I also have one I inherited from my father, Silex brand. These were made here in Australia from the late 1940s. Same mechanical principle as the Angulus, perfectly functional, but nowhere near the same quality. Here we call them a "bevel gauge". I've also seen them called "T-bevels". I also have a hundred year old Starrett combination square with a protractor head which I guess at a pinch could be used for the same purpose.
I have the exact same plastic angle finder you've got lol. It was a hand me down from my dad when I got my 1st tool box over 30yrs ago. I still use it pretty often when building custom speaker enclosures
Mine is an old Stanley. Wood (rosewood?) handle, brass fittings, steel blade. I've had it since I was a teenager in the eighties, when I bought it at the flea market for a couple bucks. I've only used it a handful of times, but it's paid for itself many times over.
Hi Adam, I made one of these during my engineering apprenticeship, I spent a lot of attention on it and still use it to this day, it might be worth doing a quick and dirty one day build to show people you don’t have to spend lots of money and some tools can be made. Thanks
I have inherited an Angulus from my dad. He was a welder and black smith.
It's called a "zwaaihaak" in Dutch. As in "wavehook". The arm waves at you.
I collect old adjustable wrenches haha... its so easy to get a long forgotten, old, gunked up wrench from the flea market, spend 10-20 minutes cleaning it up and you have yourself a 100% fully functional piece of history. And like you said, they're always super cheap
I love antique tools, I'm currently working on restoring an old hand crack drill that was my great-grandfathers that was completely neglected and seized up
One of my favorite tools is a set of brass pocket calipers. Only about 4” but I’ve printed a credit card wallet that has a slot on the side for them as well as a mini BIC lighter on the bottom so that they’re both with me whenever I may need to get a small dimension accurately or melt some plastic/paracord/light a fire.
I have always called that a miter gage... but yes super useful when used in conjunction with a miter box with a free form function, my dewalt sliding miter box has this, and I have used it to a lot of success.
I have a few ideas on tools that not everyone knows about.
1) Center finding rules Probably a lot of woodworkers do know about them, but not everyone and they really are a great tool in the woodshop.
2) Saw vices and saw sets. Dont toss your dull saws, sharpen them and set the teeth for different aggression on the cut.
3) Magnetic angle finding levels. I use them for sharpening plane irons and chisels at 25 and 30 degrees.
4) quick release drill bit, counter sink and screwdriver bit combos. Not sure the actual name for them, but when you use the drill bit side, you can drill the pilot hole, counter sink and then flip the bit to the screwdriver side and screw the screws in. Great for doing larger projects that would be tedious otherwise.
May the mighty Angulus bless your day with accurately transered angles!
ANGULUS ! I summon you, come to me !
I'm just imagining Adam in his shop extending his arm to his side and calling his angle finder to him, like Thor summoning his hammer.
I work a metal shop on a bend press and I use my angle gauge more often than my tape measure honestly, glad to see it being recommended.
"ANGULUS" Does sound wonderful! Thanks for sharing with us.
We make our own bevel gauges. Used to measure, with a bevel board, relating angles when planking and many aspects of Shipwrighting
A couple tools that I love that I wish I knew existed sooner:
Self-centering punch, great for nails or brads that aren’t flush.
Screw starter bit, holds the screw straight so you can apply pressure to your driver.
"ANGULUS!" T-Shirts when?
I can't find a video on you taking about them but I might be blind. Definitely recommend taking about stripped screw removing drill bits that spin backwards into a stripped screw, catch it, then because it spins backwards it takes the screw out.
Saved me tons of time after I found out they existed. Used to use a dremel and cut new grooves to take them out
Made mine at school in "Metalwork" (I'm from the UK), changed the stock design locking knob to a tab so it could be used one handed, my teacher (Mr Olney/Mr Bennion) got used to me trying to improve the stock designs and rolled with it, great guys! 50 years later (and numerous awards & patents later) I'm still doing it... driving my R&D department mad :) Next project turning one of my Bentleys into a hatchback...
Sweet! Thanks for the video, Adam!
Been using T-bevels or sliding bevels for decades. Never heard of the 'Angulus' though. Have a very similar antique Stanley one. Love them.
0:45 the combination square with the protractor head can do the same thing as the angle finder -- but combination squares with all the attachments are typically a lot more expensive. Many people don't know about the other attachments for the combination square, all of which are very useful.
I just got a new tool that is CHANGING MY LIFE! A Marshalltown 13" flooring cutter. I hand recycle HDPE, and this thing is a game changer. If you have a big shop with a table saw then this isn't really a step up but as someone who works in a small apartment this is a god send. My pieces are never more than 12" wide or half-inch thick so it literally cuts everything I work on. No sawdust. Line up the job and chop in seconds. Like a pocket change worth of seconds LITERALLY cuts like butter. Cold butter.. but butter nonetheless. Once DIY at-home recycling gets off the ground this tool will be a mandatory part of the process.
Thanks for the link! Have seen these before and looking everywhere for one. Thought they’d be easy to find... Really could have used on last week.
The bevel gauge (angle finder) is great. I have one from my grandfather. The initials on it are from my grandfather's grandfather, probably dates to the late 1800's. Still works great of course, I've used it for marking dovetails and rafter reinforcing.
Everything this show puts out is amazing.. glad to be a supporter and a watcher, please keep them coming!
As a 22year old kid working in a trade ( I'm a welder fabricator) I get super excited when Adam gets super excited about tools especially when I use them pretty often. I really hope I get to meet Adam some day. Make him something cool bring it to him and buy him a drink of his choice just to hangout and maybe have some of his life experience spill out.
My sister got me a beautiful machined brass sliding bevel from Vesper a few years ago. It's beautiful.
Yep! Sliding bevel or carpenter's bevel are the usual names in the UK. They can be found on AliExpress for about $5 or $6.
I have three, one is Victorian, belonged to my Grandad, the other two were my father's and are both pre-war.
If you want to make furniture they are essential.
You don't need one of these sliding t-bevels, you need at least two. My two favorites are right handed and left handed Angulus style antiques. One is a Craftsman and the other is a Stanley. Pre 1960 Craftsman tools were mostly made by Stanley. Yes, they really did make RH and LH versions. Having two or more is very useful when making something with multiple angles like a bastard hip roof.
I have an ‘angulus’ by another name. It was made just up the road in Newcastle on Tyne long before I was born. Three minutes with a wire wheel will make yours look like new!!
One of my all time favorite tools is a power file. It's basically a mini, hand-held belt sander and it's amazing. Before I had my 2x72 belt grinder, I used it on every single project I did. Metalworking, woodworking, even on some ceramic stuff (but I wouldn't recommend that); it's immensely versatile.
Thanks, Adam
I just picked one up about a week ago, it's definitely become an essential tool for my cave.
As a former machinist, I still use the combination square like the one in your drawer! I have many antique tools of my dads but no angulas!
Used one last week finishing off a project. In French: "Fausse équerre" ("False square") which I always found charming.
Made one of these as my first fabrication project back as school, such a useful tool
Look into the Starrett Miter Protractor! Great for finding inside corner angles. Quick and easy tool for so many types of materials and projects.
thank you. angles are my big problem in crafting. not that i don't know them, but it's not that everybody has the artistic ability to find them by hand
I don't have a shop and I've never made anything beyond a sandwich, but now I really need an angle finder
$5 tool
$40 postage
Sucks to live on the other side of the world.
You can make your own for super cheap out of a metal ruler, two pieces of parquet flooring or a piece of wood trim (hard wood) and a few misc nuts and bolts. Frankly, this is a tool one should make, never buy, because it's the beginner's tool project. There's no real critical dimensions, you can execute one with a drill, a flat medium metal file, and a few blocked pieces of sand paper for metal and wood.
Aserta is right. Just make one.
My Uncle was a master carpenter/cabinet maker.
He made his first speed square when he was in shop class. He still had it in a chest of old tools 55 years later when he retired.
You can get those anywhere. Most of them are not particularly nice, they have a cheap wing nut instead of a nice thumb screw, but they work. Vintage ones like Adam’s with the nut at the back (mostly made by Stanley) are surprisingly expensive, though.
I found one on eBay. Previously owned. Rosewood and Brass. Including shipping and tax $19. Go look there!
@@aserta A how to guide to make one has been printed in almost every woodworking magazine. Two that I know of are Fine Woodworking and Woodsmith/Shop Notes. Like making your own handle for a tool, you can probably buy one off eBay and customize it with your own parts. This not a machinist square that need precision grinding. The only critical thing is making sure the parallel edges are parallel. And you are absolutely right, with brass and wood, it can be done by hand with files/sandpaper.
I would add that taking a blade from an existing tool is a whole lot easier than chain drilling/filing the slot by hand; especially if you are working with SS.
I've got one and it comes in handy when I'm doing welding , metal and wood great tool love you video
My craft is miniatures (1/12 scale). For a square, I have found two items to be most beneficial to me. Playing cards and Legos. Legos are especially helpful as they are small, cut perfectly square, can stack them for measuring, etc. They are great! As for using that angle finder ... It is about as big as most of my miniatures that I make. Do they make them smaller?
Thanks for the info! Keep up the great work! Have a better day!
Never knew these existed. Thanks Adam!
Adam you make this pandemic easy by posting all the great video's
Hi Adam, I have a angle finder it's all heavy steel just like your Anglius, mine is made by Stanley NO. 18-8in, I use mine a lot when woodworking
The angle finder was key when I was finishing the interior fitment on my boat, all the trim pieces had to be carefully measured and cut. The key to a good one in my opinion is the locking mechanism. That big, low profile wheel is excellent, but a lot of the angle finders I found in the hardware store just had a wingnut, which stuck out, caught on things, and made it a little harder to grab angles sometimes. The one I found has the low profile wheel and also a level bubble in the handle.
In Germany, these are officially called "Winkelschmiege". The name roughly translates to "angle cuddling tool" as it goes really touchy with the angle it is supposed to copy :-D
Angulus is my next DnD dwarf character. Thanks Adam!
A dwarf who always knows his angles (wonders if your ref will let you have him?),
Angle finder us also very important on roofs as well. I've got a really old one and it works perfectly 👍🏴🇳🇱
I'm a huge fan of the ALLMIGHTY "SQUANGLE"!!!!! its ONE thing that does about 10 things...amazing.
Love my angle finder! Saved me a ton of time laying out stair sets.
Yeah I had to build one as my first tool, it’s fun to have to learn how to file correctly to make a perfectly round end that matches on both sides with a taper that goes from 6mm to 3mm, again matching on both sides, doing all this then getting the wrong kind of rivets that don’t fit the holes you drilled. But it was a learning process and was completely functional albeit looked like a piece of scrap metal
Have you ever used a contour gage? It's a great tool for all kind of things. For instance if you need to match the contours of any object a contour guide will assist you.
The ones with the metal tines work better, but if you have one with plastic tines, it will do as well.
It always freeks me out when his goose neck lamps wobble for minutes
My favorite tool is a pair of craftsman ignition pliers (made by the wilde tool company) they're essentially the world's smallest pair of channel locks . They look like a toy that belongs on a key chain they're 5¼" long with jaws that are 3/16" thick (3/8" thick at the pivot bolt). I carry them in a back pocket most of the time. They're virtually indestructible. They work as a wrench up to ½" and the jaws have very hard teeth, they've bailed me out many times when brake bleed screws were rusted up and rounded off by others , even stud extractors didn't work. I have also used them for cotter pins that were mangled and wire crimpers in tight spots, and to some degree they actually work better... Multiple companies make versions by none I have seen are as small and well made as the wilde tool co. versions..... as for the 'craftsman square' traditional if it has a wooden handle it would be called a 'try square ' but with metal handles it's now an engineers square' ..... I'm a big fan of the proper names for tools based on the profession that developed them. BUT at the end of the day if the person you're talking to understands which tool you want. Then that's good enough.... Honorable mention, a really good quality high carbon steel (not stainless) stockman pattern pocket knife preferably with bone handles.... just as useful very abuse and chemical tolerant ... but needs a little love and oil occasionally. (Bet that won't start any fights 🙃)
My favorite one is the electronic with display made by general tell you the angle,cheap and well built
I have an ANGULUS!!! it was passed to me by the oldest carpenter in the shop where I was an apprentice. In danish it’s called a “smig vinkel” (bevel angle)...
Great tool....
I’m gonna start yelling ANGULUS every time I use it now... thanks 😂
Great tool. Although Adam forgot to mention its other function. IT not only allows you to transfer an angle, but it also transfers the complementary angle. This comes in handy in lots of ways. If you have a 60-degree angle, for example, you flip it over and you have a 120-degrees handy as well. Any time you are trying to layout a parallelogram of any kind, this is really convenient.
reminds me of a profile tools used for cutting special tiles. works basically the same way.
i really enjoy your tool video's, especially the simple basic tools.
a couple of basic tools i like is a 'automatic' centre punch. unlike the spring style you have shown before its used single handed which makes things easier.
another is a 6" soft board saw. it has a drill on the tip and chunky teeth that can cut a lot of different materials. simple and handy.
a range of torque wrenches. the usual click type in a range of sizes but also the old beam type for measuring breaking torque and rolling torque, very handy for setting bearing preloads on bearings in your projects.
In german those things are called "Schmiege" which comes from "schmiegen" which translates to "snuggeling up to something". I really like this tool because i always imagine that i let the tool and workpiece cuddle with one another.
hey, adam there is a measuring tool my uncle gave to me its called a rabone folding ruler and what it does is it has a 2 ft measuring ruler condensed in a 6in space and it will do that as well as tell you the angle on the pice of mettle at the base and on mine and some other models it has a level on it to me this is an amazing piece of equipment and I think you were right when you said the old tools are better in some cases because they were cared for a lot more back then and made to last.
These are great, i have one similar to this, but i also have a 12 inch one i made from aluminum when learning fabrication!
I made my own custom angle finder, with a protractor included. I wanted to copy an angle, or angles, from something, but also know what the angle is, so I could draw that same angle in my vector drawing program while trying to design something to fit. It’s a big flat piece of sheet metal with the angles marked off (printed out, laminated and mounted), and a rotating arm that is wing nut attached. I wish these comments areas allowed uploading pictures.
I have a "Stanley" branded "Angulus" angle-finder. It has the same cast-steal make, same key location and shape, same knurling. Interestingly, there's a patent number on the back. I guess Stanley bought Angulus and their patent. It was my dad's and sits in the middle of my tool pegboard. He got it from an estate sale in the 70's.
"A good tool that you wanna use is a tool that you're gonna use." Sage advice.
I've always known that tool as a bevel square and I've heard it called a sliding bevel.
We call these sliding bevels in NZ... and probably in different parts of the world. But these are very useful, especially in woodworking.
I have a few Angulus squares and bevel gauges, they’re lovely.
They also make them with a digital readout for when you need the number, rather than just transferring the angle physically.
That's the newfangled version.
The simplest way to transfer an angle is just with two pieces of paper and a bit of tape.
I have several adjustable drafting triangles in my drawing kit.
Having framing/roofing-pitches included is more selective.
The angle finder is a great tool...
People are suprised at the cost of top notch engineering equipment...
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I have a #18 Stanley that has the same mechanism. Love the way it works
In Norwegian we call this "smygvinkel" which means "sneak angle" - you sneak up on the angle you're measuring, and you lock it down.
Here in New Zealand we call that an adjustable bevel. Very handy tool.
I'm gonna need to get me one of these. So far I've been using a protractor (like the one you use in school at maths) or calculating with trigonometry
I'm a apprentice carpenter and yes a sliding bevel is very important.
OMFG thank-you! I inherited one of these and wasn't sure what it is for, now I know!