Squaring your Carpenters Square

Thanks for the how to! Read the process before but the demonstration really helps!

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Thanks gary. Great tip. Instead of living with an out-of-square – square.

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Thanks, Gary! Appreciate the tip!

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Thanks for the tip, Gary. I really appreciate the info. Including the pictures demoing the process helps to clarify the procedure.

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Great tip Gary. just one thing though, you would need to be sure your straight edge was perfectly straight because you are using opposite ends to align.

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Grumpy – That why I suggested a piece of plywood. You can’t beat a factory edge for straight.

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Very true Gary.

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Hi Gary;

I had that back asswards huh?

No Wonder nothin’ around here is square!

Lee

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Good demo Gary.
A little TLC at this stage with a square can reap years of satisfaction.
I am shifting over to digital measures right now and have little to offer for the older style devices.
They are still the mainstay in many shops.

I use one for all my rough carpentry.

Cheers
Bob

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Thanks for posting this Gary.

I’ve done this to all of my squares, but I haven’t checked them out lately.

This is a great post for all of the youngsters out there. <;O)

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Bob – I have that one and a Wixey. They do come in handy for anything other 90 or 45 Degrees.

Actually a square carpenters square is more accurate for extending lines over a long distance. For example holding a straightedge against the leg of a square to continue a line.

With a digital square (actually not a square) the farther you get away from the end of the tool the more you are off.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

who would have thunk… very cool

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I can’t disagree with you there Gary.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

That’s one reason when surveying, we used a 300’ tape,

& would try to use every inch of it, for greater angle accuracy.

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I can remember watching my dad doing that when I was a kid. Thanks Gary

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Wow, Nice tip Gary. I have never thought about how to square up a carpenters square. I would assume this might work on a carpenters T Square also? Mine is aluminum unlike the carpenter squares I have which are steel.

Nice link on the book.

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I have Townsend’s “Steel Square” from 1939, I will have to read through Hodgson’s and compare. Thanks for the link.

Jerry, I think you may want to be careful on a T-square as wouldn’t the peening cause the other side of the T to be moved out of square?

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