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The Square That Lets You Do Many Woodworking Layout Tasks Fast
Square line, angle lines, a marking gauge, a protractor or rafter layout.
All these tasks can be performed with a speed square.
If there is one square you should own this is probably the one.
Here's a video that shows you how it's done:
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Thanks for posting this. The only thing I have used a speed square for is 90 degree lines and guiding my circular saw. Saw this on Facebook. I need to learn how to layout raters for a shed I plan to make.
Have a few of them, life savers for sure.
When you work with wood like I do, a speed square, and framing square is a must.
My speed square is a slow triangle..
13 degrees is a 2.75 pitch
Don’t buy plastic, or painted ones. Nice thick metal with deeply engraved numbers that won’t wear off.
A 3 pitch is a 1:3 ratio? I don’t think so…
Actually it would make a rectangle because the long angle of the sq is longer than it’s 2 sides..
Every foot it falls 3″
And if you drop ’em they won’t chip and break!!
hubby using his now –building me a table for my couch
Okay Daniel Enriquez aka andy jr. If you need a video how to use a speed square you might be a retard
Merry Christmas Mike and Julie.
The one and only #1 Speed Square!!
Agreed, Jay! Buy one that will survive a LOT of use! A GOOD Speed Square is the BOMB!
great tool but if you can’t use a framing square and a calculator you will never be more than a tract framer they are not very acurate
but if you want to aspire to be a ty pennington type carpenter then a speed square is all you need
you forgot to mention the diamond at three and a half inches and the marks adjacent to the quarter inch marks on the inside of the square
for the past fourty years every time Ive dropped a speed square, and if you dont know it sounds like the liberty bell ringing, I’ll have some $#%&!@* say’ “hey Bob, you dropped your speed square”, no $#%&!@* dumbass
This will help those that have not used one before
Love me my speed square.
Dieing Breed, WHERE ARE THE HARDEST UNDER PAID CARPENTRY MEN, IS THERE ANYMEN LEFT TO DO HARD WORK @ STAY FIT DOING IT, ” J.C. ” WAS A CARPENTER BEFORE BEING NAILED TO A CROSS @ DIED FOR OUR SIN’S.
Great video
never on a job without a SWANSON speed square–I knew the inventor of it from Oak Lawn, Ill
i asked my wife hand me that square, she replied you mean this triangle ! true story
Uwe Tobies Piotr Chądzyński
Did you tell Troy
Oh those numbers mean sumthing ……
Hire a carpenter
I still use a framing square
My daughter Always tells me its a triangle dad not a square..lol :o)
You can’t carry a framing square in you’re toolbags.. and if you are the cut guy on the ground cutting stringers and such then yes a framing square. I am not using a framing square to cut rafter tails
Like Jon Molloy said hire a carpenter
I hate getting tangled in the fray, but…. 1) the angle of a roof is not the same as it’s slope. 2) the pitch is defined as the ratio of the rise to the span (which can also lead to confusion). 3:12 is a 3 inch rise to 12 inches of “span”, and can also be expressed as 1:4 – see what I mean? Now, a span (normally) is the distance between the outer wall extremities. But, only if your roof height is half of the span, will you then have a 12:12 (or 1:1) ratio, a 45° angle. 3) The pitch can be defined as the slope, expressed as a ratio. Just remember what you use for the span is the horizontal distance to the point of highest rise…. Now, let me get out of the weeds!
A 3 pitch is a 1:4 ratio. 1 inch of rise for 4 inches run. That’s all I was saying.
just the basics is all on this
Nothing beats a framing square. I can do more with the framing square than anyone can do with a speed square. Check out the squangle for something really cool
Much quicker way to find pitch than the plumb bob deal here- put the pivot point on the top of the truss, level it off with a torpedo lvl, and where the truss intersects the square is your pitch.