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Last weekend I finally got around to a small project I have always wanted to do, a couple of try squares that were really square and could be made to stay that way. I have always loved the look and feel of wooded squares, not sure why. It just seems organically right. My photography skills are still poor, sorry for the shadows and lack of perspective. These are approximately 5” and 7” long. The tongues are quartersawn red oak, the handles are red oak for the small one and some mysterious and probably endangered tropical hardwood that I scavaged from a pallet from Indonesia.
-- --- Wayne.
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7 comments so far
Eric
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#1 posted 1569 days ago
Pretty. I guess it’s now on my ever-growing list to make.
-- ED
CharlieM1958
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#2 posted 1569 days ago
I’d be interested in your technique for building these perfectly square.
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Jon3
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#3 posted 1569 days ago
Charlie: You don’t build them square you make them square. =)
Build it ‘fair’, then tune with block plane set for razor thin shavings until you’re accurate.
Use reference straightedge, scribe line, flip square over, scribe new line. If they match up, you’re 90 degrees.
dickreeves
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#4 posted 1569 days ago
Wayne, nice job on the pair-o-squares.
How did you get the quatersawn oak?
Make it yourself or buy it that way?
-- dick
DKBushee
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#5 posted 1569 days ago
I like this alot. I’ve been wanting to do
some of these for a while now.
-- -Daniel
Karson
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#6 posted 1569 days ago
A great design. Thanks for showing them.
-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
motthunter
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#7 posted 1569 days ago
nice work
-- making sawdust....
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