Extreme How To - Original Swanson Speed Square
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What's the gloves for, we man?
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one problem i keep running into is alot of people call this tool a tri-square (tri meaning triangle), have even seen it on tool lists for places ive worked as try square (and really meaning a speed square) but the try square is a totally different tool! derp!
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I learned 1 thing from this video. How about all the other uses that this thing is supposed to be good for?
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thanks for the video. just bought my power tools. will pick one up
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@andresperling check out the speed square with the bar on it, I use it all the time for cutting rafter's and siding material, I am sure it's also a Stanley tool !!
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@ecortiz77 For his soft hands...
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@feralbigdog the diamond shaped hole is to mark the birdsmouth for the bottom of a rafter for a 2 x 4 wall. as the birdsmouth is at a 90 degree angle to the end cut
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Boy do I feel like an idiot. I've had a speed square in my belt for ages and could never figure out what those notches on the inside were for. Just today I used a chalk line for a rough rip. Guess I should have read the blue book.
I do think though, that any wood worker worth his or her salt should be able to make a straight cut with a circular saw without a guide. Buy a 2x4 and take a few practice runs. It's not really that hard
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How about what it was made for... HIP/VAL figgerin'???
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Cool. I never thought to use it in those ways.
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Kinda' strange...I've used it to do all the things he demonstrated but never read the book that came with it, just using it all the time I thought of more and more things to use it for. A friend showed me how to use it for finding roof pitch one day. I bought one a few days later and the rest I just figgered out on my own. Handiest tool I've ever used.
qlvz 3 years ago 5
See, the possibilities are endless!. I prefer a framing square for rafters myself.
canubelieve 2 years ago 3