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phil.p":j2u1naqm said:
Oh, good - I've always wanted a chopstick maker. :D
Really?
Because you can import a live one in a shipping container, along with his wife, both his parents, possibly even one of his children... all for less money than this jig kit thing costs!! :p

Yer results would likely be better, too.
I'll have a word with a guy I know. Expect a phonecall from some dodgy Russian bloke by the end of next week. :lol:
 
Wow, fab work Rod!

Steliz":390f7nlf said:
ED65":390f7nlf said:
Actually I've taken to making my own squares... from wood of all things! :D
Ahh, but what did you use to determine that it was square?
The 3,4,5 rule.
 
Very pretty stuff but I do have a "value engineering" issue with kit like this. Just as a pencil performs it's function with simplicity and the minimum of extra frippery, a common(metalworking) workshop square is cheap, simple and made to a specified standard of accuracy (more than good enough for woodwork).
I highly doubt that Bridge City, Woodpeckers etc can claim their tools are more accurate (do they even specify accuracy ?) or even more durable for all their expense. That puts them in eye candy / luxury land. Lovely to own but a step too far for me.
 
ED65":1tlsnd68 said:
The 3,4,5 rule.

I don't see how a live fish could help ....

Sideways":1tlsnd68 said:
Woodpeckers etc can claim their tools are more accurate (do they even specify accuracy ?) or even more durable for all their expense.

"Squares are accurate to within 0.001 inch or less along the full length of the tool" Reference. To be honest I'd probably only use it to make one of my existing ones square,then put it away. Which is really why I can't justify it.





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I bought some Bridge City tools fifteen years ago when I worked the States, and visited Portland from time to time. And I find that I do use them regularly and enjoy doing so. The set of three adjustable squares I use almost every time I'm in the workshop, and set them before any critical project with my square setting jig (see thread), ensuring that I at least start right. The centre scribe I use but less often. I find it swells and jams in the workshop, so I keep it in the house until needed, which means it isn't used as much as it could be, though it works well. The chisel edge corner plane is often used in projects such as restorations. The mitre clamps I have never used and have been tricky to adjust when I tried. The large T square with angular setting is sometimes useful. Various small squares are often used for setting circular and band saws. I also have a small instrument vice which is less useful than it looks. In general they are accurate, good to handle and to look at. They do what they say on the box, very well and are well thought out.

In those days I had more disposable income. For sure, the jobs can be done by other tools and that's what I would get now I'm retired. But I am very glad that I have a decent set of Bridge City measuring/markup tools, which will last another lifetime after mine.
 
I use the 3 4 5 triangle and a straight edge on my Table Saw but also one of these that I bought many years ago from Dicks


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Rod
 
I see Harbos 00 square as tool porn, the rest is more like eurotrash, bright colours and cutaways but no real substance, the lola ferrari of the tool world (do not google that in work).
 
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