sed9888
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Hi everyone, hoping you are all safe, i am looking for a decent set square i would like a wooden handle one traditional like, i have others so was looking for one about 6" or a pair
advice please
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If the wooden handled one isnt essential, there was a link to a starrett one on the deals forum the other day. A fiver or so on Amazon. Performance wise it is all that you will ever need.
As for a wooden handled one, I don't know but would suggest looking at Peter section toolshop. Good quality tools and Peter supports the forum.
As for a wooden handled one, I don't know but would suggest looking at Peter section toolshop. Good quality tools and Peter supports the forum.
Jacob
What goes around comes around.
They are pretty basic and not much to chose if they are accurate. But if you are doing a lot of marking up - which can be a days or more on a big project, there's one design which has a significant advantage: it's the ones with a sufficiently wide blade such that the centre of gravity is in the blade, and you can leave it sitting on a workpiece and it doesn't flip up and fall off. No use asking a dealer he won't know what you are talking about, you'd have to go and try them out.
sed9888
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Thank you for finding the time, i have looked for peters tools but couldn't find them do you have a link i could use please
Jacob
What goes around comes around.
He doesn't seem to stock the wooden handled ones so I guess non of these would pass the balance test (see above) and some of them are very pricy.
https://woodworkersworkshop.co.uk/collections/squares
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sed9888
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I'll call my mortgage adviser later see if i can get a 2nd mortgage....................
Phil Pascoe
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If the wooden part isn't important -
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00RD59PZQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Smaller ones available (I have one). Cheap and accurate.
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00RD59PZQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Smaller ones available (I have one). Cheap and accurate.
Orraloon
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Marples still make wood handled squares. Try Google.
That said I would want to test any square hands on before buying because if it aint square then what's the point. They can be corrected with a file and I would expect to have to on an old one but buying new then check it's good to go.
Regards
John
That said I would want to test any square hands on before buying because if it aint square then what's the point. They can be corrected with a file and I would expect to have to on an old one but buying new then check it's good to go.
Regards
John
This is one of those tools that needs to be spot on with accuracy. You will use it for setting up machines through to marking where things need to be correct. Buy new and quality ones. My advise is go for a Moore and Wright or Starret. Both of these are made to a high-end engineering standard.
Cromwell tools is an excellent source for these type of tools and a competitive price.
Cromwell tools is an excellent source for these type of tools and a competitive price.
Richard_C
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Agree on accuracy. I have one that is 'not quite' 90 degrees which even at my diy-bodger standard of work is a liability. It lives in the garden shed and is good enough for marking up fence posts, stakes and suchlike.
