5 Quick Measuring Hacks – Woodworking Tips and Tricks
5 Quick Measuring Hacks – Woodworking Tips and Tricks
In this video we review 5 Quick Measuring Hacks with framing squares, rulers and a tape measure.
One thing that is constant in woodworking – there is LOTS of measuring and working with numbers and woodworkers have devised many different ways to quickly do things that doesn’t involve sitting down with a calculator or trying to work out some complicated math to get accuracy.
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You might find a very good triangle in your wife’s quilting tools
0:50 Now you know the plight of most left handers when it comes to nearly everything else!
I thought I would not need a 25′ measuring tape on a construction site too. Foreman saw my little 10′ tape and said it was "CUTE". I got so much flack for my 10′ tape, it’s stuck with me to this day…19 years later even after the foreman has now passed. He passed saving 2 of his workers from a falling crane that broke off a truck. He pushed them HARD through an unfinished drywall section so they just got covered with dust.
That 2nd hack of dividing boards…very nice.
That center finder trick is hella useful.
Not magical not a hack it’s math thanks tho
I’ve seen many videos on how to make a jig for finding the center of a dowel. Your method is by far the simplest.
Thank you so much.
you lot are idiots!!! I’m totally so-called Lh? so I went out and purposely bought a Lefffft handed measure!? this so mucked me up, because I’ve been cross infected with the right-handed society, you guys your backwards method of trying to be a lefty, has interfered with your mind control, you want to be a lefty but have been infected with the right-hand mentality! so you are the ones who are confused? not us? lol, you!!!
how about drilling a pair of holes in one ruler and cutting a slot/ getting a trisquare and bolting them together!!!!
Yep, I checked my tape measure — and the numbers are upside down.. Thanks I now know what to do.
2nd tip dont take blade width loss into consideratio
I always glue the tab on the end of the tape measure. Otherwise, there is a chance that your measurements will always deviate slightly because there is play on the tab of most tape measures. Do you have different sizes and have you measured correctly? Glue the tab!
Amazing
So helpful!
I still can’t understand how NASA put people into space, let alone the moon, using such an archaic system of measurement.
Some great ideas Colin. I may be dating myself here, but I still use a folding rule for measuring short work the extension works great for inside measurements. They’re quick and easy and don’t flop around like tape measures. They also slip nicely into your back pocket out of the way when you’re not using it, and easy to grab when you need it.
I always keep a few around and still have the one I used years ago as an apprentice.
For anything under 6-8 ft ( which is most of my work now) that’s all I use.
The second tip is great! However A must for carpenter apprentices, know your math and measurements despite any hack you learn. And apprentices, (not wood workers apparently) the triangle is called a speed square… and the L-shaped is called a framing square. Don’t get caught calling these triangles because you’ll likely get sent to find a wood stretcher, and soon be replaced by a laborer. Carpentry is a high paying skill so know your craft and tools Apprentices! Great video though sir! I love your channel sir. Thank You for posting this.
Thank you, Great tips
ive spent years trying too find out why tapes are printed back to front if we write with out right hand.
Awesome helpful tips! Thanks!
I wish I had come across this a long time. This will also work with metal fabrication
Brilliant.
WOW! You totally blew my mind.
Nice!
Triangle? You mean Speed Square, right?
Good tips! Tks fir sharing. I from Brazil.
It’s a Speed Square. SHOCKED you do not know that.
The dividing trick is just genius…
you are left handed silly!!!
Woodworking should be used to teach geometry in school.
How can I use my tape measure to measure the axisting angle
great tip on circle
You lost me when you don’t even use a Stanley tape. Lufkin is a decent brand for homeowners but those cheap crappy little tapes you’re using usually go off measure when you run them out.
So much valuable information in just a couple of minutes, I need to go out and get some engineer squares, and finding the center of something, I make 3 tier trays and I need to get what I’m using exactly in the middle of each shelf, and it takes a long time because I like to be right down to the 32nd, that’s why it takes me so long to do stuff, so these hacks are going to save me so much time.
First video I’ve ever seen of you, I’ve subscribed and gave you a thumbs up, thanks for the tips.
Thank you sir ,great tips there appreciate that , definitely will use them .
So a housing or commercial isn’t as important and doesn’t need to be as "precise" as a picture frame… What a joke. Im a carpenter and ill stop you there and say you’re wrong. And its a speed square rookie.
That board dividing trick was grnious…Holy smokes!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
Always thought it was just me that would mark on the previous increment. I have asked other trades if they have made the same mistake but none would admit it.
Some great tips there, thanks Colin.
Thanks for the videos. Very clever and informative. I think the clear plastic "engineer squares" are also called drafting triangles.
Construction triangle = Speed Square
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! The purpose of using the angled ruler to divide a board into equal pieces was to avoid the math. But you just set yourself up to do different math with your method. And by the way, not everybody struggles with elementary school arithmetic. Half of eleven and a half is five and a half and a quarter.
Thank you sir. I’ve learned a lot from your very useful tips and tricks.
Sir u would like this one in diffeculty knowing the half of your measurement could simply take the tip if your tape and put it to the measur^ment and get it 👍
If your tape has fractions on it put the tools down and go back to knitting. 😄
this is pure genius tips
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Handy information
Actual tips, great video!
Digital tape measures must be considered now June 2021