The holy grail of steel rulers

[Woodmonkey]

I've been yearning for a long while for a steel rule with mm graduations on each edge without half mm graduations which they all seem to have, and which make my head hurt when staring at them for too long.
Found some here if anyone's interested (scroll down to the ones that say "pick up"
https://www.fine-tools.com/shinwa-ruler.html
I've ordered a few different lengths, can't wait!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Looks good. They don't seem to do them with real measurements on them, though.

 

[Rorschach]

Keep meaning to pick up some of these for use on the lathe.

 

[transatlantic]

Might want to wait until they turn up until you give them Holy Grail status

My idea of a great steel rule would be :

- Just Metric
- Zero reference on BOTH ends
- sloped sides so that you can more accurately make your mark

 

[Woodmonkey]

Looks good. They don't seem to do them with real measurements on them, though.

Yep, can't be doing with no elvish/ Cornish witchcraft!

 

[woodpig]

They look nice. I'd like one of the little "pick up" ones but they want €9.90 shipping for something that would fit in a DL envelope. :roll:

Edit. Got one on Amazon for a fiver with free postage. at least I won't have trouble picking it up off the bench now!

 

[Walney Col]

Just metric
Easy to read
left handed scale one side, right handed scale the other side = no more reading nubers upside down

 

[Woodmonkey]

They look nice. I'd like one of the little "pick up" ones but they want €9.90 shipping for something that would fit in a DL envelope. :roll:

Edit. Got one on Amazon for a fiver with free postage. at least I won't have trouble picking it up off the bench now!

Really? The same one? Link please....

 

[Phil Pascoe]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shinwa-62081/d ... nwa+rulers

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/c7h/Shinwa-6 ... nwa+rulers

I had this pair some years ago until some kind soul relieved me of them - brilliant tools. They were stainless when I had them, though.

 

[transatlantic]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shinwa-62081/dp/B000W9IMQS/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&qid=1489428282&sr=8-31&keywords=shinwa+rulers

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/c7h/Shinwa-6 ... nwa+rulers

I had this pair some years ago until some kind soul relieved me of them - brilliant tools.

So brilliant you didn't replace it ?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

The work changed and I had too many others.

 

[Eric The Viking]

I've got one of the Shinwa mitre squares, which I picked up down in Axminster in a moment of madness.

It is a beautiful thing, but I've probably used it maybe twice in anger, having owned it for quite a few years.

I probably need to get out more...

 

[woodpig]

They look nice. I'd like one of the little "pick up" ones but they want €9.90 shipping for something that would fit in a DL envelope. :roll:

Edit. Got one on Amazon for a fiver with free postage. at least I won't have trouble picking it up off the bench now!

Really? The same one? Link please....

It's a Shinwa 13131:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shinwa-pickup- ... inwa+13131

 

[MikeJhn]

Thanks for the link woodpig, just bought one as well.

Mike

 

[Woodmonkey]

Well spotted sir, I must confess I didn't think to check amazon, although it looks like that's the only size available there, and it's coming from Japan so you may be waiting a while for it!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Rulers/Adven ... 458&sr=1-5

These have the 1/2s but are worth a look - dead zero and class one. I may get a pair - they have elvish measurements on the reverse.

 

[Rorschach]

Awesome, I had to pick one up (pun intended)

Never quite understood the need for 0.5mm graduations on a rule, seems pointless to me.

 

[bourbon]

My dear mom would be turning in her grave, She used to work for Raybone Chesterman. The Machine she used to work on is in Thinktank in Birmingham!

 

[woodpig]

Well spotted sir, I must confess I didn't think to check amazon, although it looks like that's the only size available there, and it's coming from Japan so you may be waiting a while for it!

I had a look on the Shinwa site to get the code number, 13131. A Google search of Shinwa 13131 and Amazon came up as one of the top results.

I find small rules handy to keep next to machines but they are so thin they are difficult at times for me to pick up. The 13131 with the raised end sounded like a good solution. Nice to know as well that I'm not the only person to have this problem! :lol:

 

[transatlantic]

Never quite understood the need for 0.5mm graduations on a rule, seems pointless to me.

Well thats a daft thing to say

Although I must admit, I have never used them and they do distract from the single increments