Does anybody know of a good website or article on how to decipher and use a framing square? I realize we are all about “fine furniture” but the old framing square is apparently the tool for making circles and othe fine measurements. I know this question will be on my upcoming test in the shop at my 6 month review. The more I know the better.
Thanks
Crpntr5
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http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=44935&cat=1,46096,46108&ap=2
Try this little book.
http://www.ufpi.com/literature/easyriserinstall-180.pdfGood, better, best never let it rest until your good is better & your better best.
Back at the turn of the century, there was this Canadian Architect by name of Fred Hodgson, who published multiple books on the building arts. A lot were published by Drake in Chicago,
One of his foremost volumes was "the steel square", and although he intially published it in one volume, it soon became two.
on ABEBOOKS.com here's the link to score original texts, not some reprint.....
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Hodgson&y=16&tn=steel+square&x=56
some of you fellas may already be aware that he referrs to squares with scales that not only have the 1/8" markings, but also have 1/10th, 1/12th markings as well as that little scratchy scale that lets you set yer dividers to 1/100th of an inch. Others may be blisfully unaware that framing squares used to have those capabilities....
All seeingly such esoteric nonsense to a lot of folks nowadays, and granted, of limited utility in the current milieu, as his complicated calculations are so much more easily done on a cordless and battery-less slide rule (available at yer local flea market for less than the cost of a battery for yer calculator....), or for the mathematically challenged folks, with a 5 buck calculator, provided the battery is OK.
20-25 bucks for the two volume set is about fair market value as best I can determine.
Hodgson books is one of my collecting passions.
I love ol' carpentry books like that, thanks for posting the link!
"or for the mathematically challenged folks, with a 5 buck calculator, provided the battery is OK." Not too many calculators use batteries these days, LOL!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>)
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