A significant amount of time spent in the shop is used for marking and laying out workpieces that you’ll cut or drill with various tools. Here we’re going to take a peek at a few interesting tools for making those initial marks.
A MINI CARPENTER SQUARE. Any time I pick up a well-made tool it sparks my imagination. The “Mini Carpenter Square” you see in the photos here makes me feel confident that all the angles I’ll draw with it will be perfect. The square is manufactured by Pinnacle and we’ll look a couple more of their tools shortly.
The anodized black body and the laser-etched white lettering make my aging eyes happy. Also, I’m impressed with the finger hole and the thumb groove that aids you when maneuvering the square. One more clever thing is how quickly and accurately you can access often used angles by dropping the angle pin in
