 Does it really work to mark your work piece components with the woodworkers or carpenters Triangle marking system. Well, let's see Hola woodworkers Paul Carlson here small workshop guy I'm building two deck chairs with Ottomans and so each of the two deck chairs has four Big old legs some of them are I made here our cedar and some of them are made out of red oak So each of the two chairs has four legs. That's eight legs each of the Ottomans has four legs So that's 16 legs total. I have another video. I'll put a card up here For that longer video telling you not only how to mark feet Because these are a little unique they take little right triangles, but also how to mark regular components so the way you mark them is once you put Four pieces together that you want to be together even before you start cutting your profiles and stuff group up four of them and then draw a right triangle on the two that go together with the tip pointing toward you or toward what would be the front and the Hypotenuse running along what's going to be the outside edge or with the triangle pointing out and then the other triangle does that that way You can't mix these two up. I can't try to put this one and this one Because that part of the right triangle is pointing in and then things don't match up So it's a real easy system It's actually more complex when you have Things that are made out of four if I have things just made out of two then I don't have to use right triangles I just use regular triangles in addition if you have multiple items like that like I have two ottomans and two chairs Then you distinguish the sets of four from each other by even having a single triangle Or a triangle with a line next to it or a triangle with two lines next to it Or a triangle with three lines next to it. So then you've got four different sets One line two line three lines and four lines Total counting the triangle. All right, so I've got them all marked out Let's let's see how that can help me put things together and the triangles tell me the orientation. What's the front? What's the back? What's the inside? What's the outside? So So I'm gonna look for everything that's got a single mark on it. Here's a single mark I'm going to take this right the bottom of this right triangle here and say, okay, that's going to go to the outside here's another single mark and That would be The tip of the right triangle is going to be wanting to point to the outside. So this goes over here not over here All right The straight lines are going to be in the middle. All right any more with a single line. Well, here's one So that looks like that goes there pretty good and Here's one So here's my Four items that go together. They're all marked with just a single line or a single triangle and With the tip pointing to the front and the right triangle pointing to the outside. So there's one set Let's see if I can find set number two really quickly so I'm just spotting everything that's got a Triangle and one line beside it. All right So I grab this one. That's got that just one line. Here's a one liner Triangle going out. There we go here and then I just can match that up with the rest of the right triangle and One goes there So there you go. Highly recommend you learn the carpenter triangle marking system You can get rid of blue tape markings and all sorts of a's and b's and joint numbers and all sorts of things that I used to try Small workshop guy hoping that helps you in your workshop signing off and what you need it with a good system is something that Really is definitive and then that didn't work right out of the shoot All right, I probably won't show you that All right, so what I'm going to do is just look really quickly and try to gather the four of them that have just Single marks on them. So here's one. Here's one. I don't know if they go together yet Here's one with a single mark And I'm going to say the front of the stools go this way. So where's another single mark? That's double. Help me if you put your glasses on Paul Here's a single