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Try Square #1: Trying out a Try square

2 days ago by Jon3 | 9 comments »

I decided to make my own try square, in the spirit of the hand tool extravaganza I’ve been into lately. I saw an article by Adam Cherubini on making them, I think in popular woodworking. (If somebody has a link to the issue, let me know!) I don’t have the article handy, but the basis of it was pretty simple. I grabbed some spare Sipo and some spare Maple that already happened to be an appropriate width, a hair over 1/4” and 3/4” respectively. Crosscut and hit them with a smoothing plane. A nice full width mortise courtesy of a tenoning jig. (I’m sure Adam would not approve!) Then get it as close to square as my starret will show me, and ...

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