Imperial V Metric

[MMUK]

Jeyes fluid and his 12 mates :shock: Over 2 beer tokens of real money for a measuring stick :shock:

It ain't got a Silver Ghost on one end has it :?:

Wait till I tell you how much it cost for calibration, thankfully it's on a 5 year re-cal :roll:

15 guineas, 6 goats, 2 sheep and a camel! :mrgreen:

Come on MMUK, that really isn't true is it. One camel is worth 3 goats and if you tell it any different it will get the ump.

It's OK, I needed to get rid of a few. Anyway, they only had one hump :wink:

 

[morfa]

I'm also an 80s child and use the wonderful metriperial system. It's not at all confusing. Honest. I find that using handtools means that imperial makes sense. All the good tools are imperial anyway, so you might as well just use imperial. Also most timber yards etc seem to be happiest with imperial as well.

However like DTR, I tend to cut one or two key pieces to size and then work off them when building stuff.

 

[MMUK]

What pisses me off is when you go to a timber yard to find, for example, 4" x 2" timber sold in lengths labeled as 2.4m/8'.

2.4m IS NOT 8' long! 2.44m is 8'. :evil:

 

[Cottonwood]

no one as mentioned pinch rods, story sticks or joiners rods. I've built quite a few things where I never used any centralised measurement system (which imperial and metric both are) whatsoever. I set out the proportions with laths and scrap offcut's on a white board, drew out the rod, using dividers/framing squares etc to set it out then work from that, no "measurement" needed. After all measurement is only an abstract way to communicate a "size" from one person, or place, to another. A dimension taken with a pinch rod is precisely accurate and directly transferable....
LOL theres a French heritage joiner on youtube, he still persists with pouces

 

[Jonzjob]

I can't find it. Any chance of a link or 2 ??

 

[Cottonwood]

http://youtu.be/s-VnbU7SdL8

He mentions the "P" words (pied et douze pouces) at 3.28

 

[SPSlick]

It's the British curse to have to work in both. I've just bought a sheet of ply which was specified as 8'x4'x9mm.

 

[Jonzjob]

Cottonwood, that is quite some project that bloke is working on. The refurbishment of a 13th or 14th century chateau and all to the trad spec using trad methods.

http://www.guedelon.fr/en/

A bit too far North of me for a casual visit, but?? Almost 600Km..