price of large squares.

[wtnhighlander]

Ha! I like using cheap tools, there is always some to blame for the mistakes! 

[Von]

On 10/4/2025 at 10:17 AM, wtnhighlander said:

Ha! I like using cheap tools, there is always some to blame for the mistakes! 

A poor woodworker blames their online forum :-)

[BillyJack]

More  expensive squares don’t make you any better. A square is a square. ..If it makes you feel better at woodworking, you should buy it..

 

This helped woodworking shows by far..

[BillyJack]

What I have. Ever wondered why old woodworkers who make nice projects don’t have shiny new tools? Because if a tool, etc was purchased and it worked, it didn’t need replaced with a shiny new one..

 

[Von]

On 10/4/2025 at 10:51 AM, BillyJack said:

A square is a square. 

You made me curious. My two large squares differ by just under 1/16" at 2 feet.

 

[BillyJack]

If a framer built you a house, would you really get out and measure it to the inch?

 

If you build a house or piece of furniture with a incorrect tape measure , framing square, etc, would it be wrong or correct in your possession?

 

My suggestion to anybody who doesn’t know how to adjust tools, is to use the same measuring devise on everything on that project..

 

[BillyJack]

I have no right to judge others on what they purchase, but a need is a need and want is a want…

 

I wanted a floor mortiser, but I had a good enough portable. The portable I needed, The floor was a wanted…

[Tom King]

Squares are easy to check and framing squares are cheap.  If one gets dropped and knocked out of square it gets tossed on the scrap metal pile.  I know they can be adjusted with a center punch, but I tried that once long ago and decided it was too much trouble for very fine adjustments.  

[BillyJack]

You don’t need a center pouch to square a framing square..

What is a fine cut to a carpenter?

[Tpt life]

This discussion should have died several posts ago. This is not a carpentry forum. To discuss framing, when we are discussing non-framing squares, or use of framing squares for other purposes is best left to conversation and not endless posts on this forum. Can we stick a little closer to the nature of this forum please?

[BillyJack]

On 10/4/2025 at 12:40 PM, Tpt life said:

This discussion should have died several posts ago. This is not a carpentry forum. To discuss framing, when we are discussing non-framing squares, or use of framing squares for other purposes is best left to conversation and not endless posts on this forum. Can we stick a little closer to the nature of this forum please?

If all discussions died after the point was made , we wouldn’t spend time on forums. 
 

These questions and answers have been discussed for years . Making a post about it should have died is just another post..

 

If you have a framing square, it’s in the discussion..

[BillyJack]

On 10/4/2025 at 11:24 AM, Tom King said:

Squares are easy to check and framing squares are cheap.  If one gets dropped and knocked out of square it gets tossed on the scrap metal pile.  I know they can be adjusted with a center punch, but I tried that once long ago and decided it was too much trouble for very fine adjustments.  

What is too much trouble? You don’t need a center punch for correction. I have never used a punch to square a framing square and use a framing square many times in furniture and cabinetry.