 So which one should you buy? Should you buy the Sterret double square for $80 or should you buy two double squares from iGaging for $32? Hola woodworkers, Paul Carlson here, small workshop guy. I wanted to get a double square. I had dropped mine a number of times. It wasn't sliding well and it was a little banged up. Anyway I got these and then I just started losing sleep. I started thinking why how can Sterret possibly want to charge me $80 for a single one of these, double square with a hardened blade they call it. When this set only cost me $32. It ate away at me, it ate away at me. I finally said you know what I need to do a comparison for my 15 subscribers. So I went ahead and I bought it. Now before I do the comparison let me mention that I've got a new patreon link and I'm looking for still my first handful of patrons and at the end of September I'm going to look at who all of my patrons are, all one, two or three of them. I'm going to do a random drawing of in that small select group for this Richard Kell honing guide that's from England. I forget what I paid for it somewhere around $50, $60, $70 and it's very nice and so somebody will become a patron maybe for a dollar a month and be one of just a handful of patrons and when this I would also like to announce that I there's a group that we've started called Small Workshop Woodworking Community and that's on Facebook and that's a new group. I realize there's many woodworking groups on Facebook already why I have one more. I wanted to have one that focused on the small workshop layout, economical tools, ideas, builds that people might do, questions people might have. So anyway I've started that group I think there's two of us so far. If you go there and sign up that won't cost you anything and we'd like to have you participate if whether or not you have a small workshop and at the end of September I'm going to go to however many people are in that group and it may only be five and I'm going to do a drawing a random drawing and give away this set of double squares. In the middle of September I'm going to give away this my tech honing guide. It's an inexpensive one but maybe somebody trying to do it freehand like I was and does not work the out well and they'd like to have an economical guide meaning free. So that'll go to whoever signed up by September 15th of 2019 in the small workshop woodworking community group on Facebook. Should you pay $80 for a really nice double square from Sterrett I bought it so that I could kind of really look at it compare the two and decide for a normal person in a small workshop maybe a hobbyist does it make any sense at all. I do like the I do like the the ruler here I like the kind of shiny but non-glary it makes it easier to see the little marks those marks man those are those are really really well done and I'm suspecting that they're not going to wear off and stuff and they're very precisely done. The eye gauging one isn't good it's all the same dimensions 164th 132nd 116th and then 18 and you can set those up to use whichever one you like. Now with my eyesight I can't see 164th anyway you told me to set this thing to 61 64th I wouldn't be able to do it even though they laid these out really really well so that's of no value to me and both of them have that. I pulled these rulers out put them back in I unscrewed these all the way they both have a little leveler in it so that's no difference. They seem to weigh about the same. The Sterrett certainly slides very smoothly and locks into place very nicely but the eye gauging if you release this slides pretty smoothly too and locks into place doesn't lock into place quite as well at least with my arthritic hands so after all the study that I could do and looking at them and actually using them both in the workshop I have concluded and I will guess I will never be sponsored by a Sterrett. I'm not sure I'll ever be sponsored by anybody but I have concluded that it definitely is not worth the money to get the Sterrett this one or maybe the bigger combination square when these less expensive but still high quality alternatives are available. Now because I did spend the money I am going to keep the Sterrett rather than give it away. I get a certain amount of psychological value out of knowing when I grab a tool oh that's that one that's a really nice one from Sterrett that's not a cheap one so I'm gonna keep it for that reason but I'm gonna as I said I'm gonna give this away to on September 30th to somebody randomly that signed up for the Facebook group small workshop woodworking community it'll come in a nice little case that's all I have to say on that subject be safe in your workshop small workshop guy signing off