One Square To Rule Them All: 1281 Precision Woodworking Square | Deep Dive
One Square To Rule Them All: 1281 Precision Woodworking Square | Deep Dive
Woodpeckers 1281 Precision Woodworking Square: https://www.woodpeck.com/woodpeckers-precision-woodworking-square-12-x-261.html
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The 1281 Precision Woodworking Square has been our most popular tool for years. In this 7-minute video Jeff Farris shows you the features that have made this square a favorite of woodworkers around the world.
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CONTENTS OF VIDEO:
0:00-0:34 Welcome
0:35-1:17 Why So Popular?
1:18-1:59 Central Core
2:00-2:23 Shoulder Support
2:25-2:45 Layout Notch
2:46-3:07 Corrosion Free
3:08-4:14 Accuracy
4:15-5:23 Perfect Size
5:24-6:02 Blade
6:03-7:19 Wrap-up
Well if you don’t know why it’s the most popular, guess what? After watching this video either do I..
What’s with the stupid music?
so having my "actual" address isn’t good enough to receive a catalog.. you need to harass me with emails too? really?
Wish they’d come with dual units
Ordering now!! I love this one.
I love my 1281 square and use it in my tiny garage shop on every project. But I can’t wait to get my basement cleaned out enough to move my work space indoors. Then I’ll break out my precious 1281SE square where it will be much less likely to grow legs and wander off. It’s not the usual Woodpeckers red, but it’s gorgeous just the same.
Yeah but who can afford y’all’s tools? I can but I just won’t allow myself to purchase them.
Hope to see some inventory shipping to Canada soon. Be safe.
Man you guys are rich…beautiful squares…nice fesstool stuff to…heck of a shop…maybe one day Lord willing my shop will be just as impressive
I have the 1281 SE and the 1281SS, love them both
With a blade that thick it would be really useful if the scribed lines ran down the side.
But that would probably make it a *bit* more expensive.
Good tool but over price!😛😛
Good squares but they are not available in Europe for months, good does not help if you don’t have it.
Perfect for checking square, for Lay-out the blade is to thick, to many options for errors.
Are there any purposes to the round hole and oblong hole in the central core along where the measurements are marked?
Aluminum and stainless can be a very bad combination for corrosion in some circumstances. In this application, the small amount of stainless (cathode) in a much larger aluminum (anode) base should be fine, especially if it stays in the shop.
hello again from México city good tools and videos
great vid. but i want the square that you made in 2013 that was ONE piece aluminum for the entire unit. NOW THAT WAS A sqaure,
UPDATE 5-28-2021 – USERS BEWARE! The inside and outside markings of the blade are NOT IN SYNC! I discovered this the hard way mid-project. They are out by 1/32" on one side, less on the other. The official Woodpecker response through Chris N was: That is not a defect in the tool. Each side of the blade is independent from the other side. The inside measurement references off of the aluminum cheeks of the tool and the outside references off of the sole/bottom of the blade and cheeks. All of our squares are like that. <<< To that I say Poppycock. That is a bad design, and it cost me in my project. Also, if that were intentional, why isn’t it the same on both sides of the blade?
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ORIGINAL: I personally like it for its feedback and knowing it is my reference tool. I check every square two ways: against this tool, and again with back-to-back scribe lines. I’m also learning to LOVE the DelVe SS little one, and the small Saddle square. My first WP was that tiny 1” square. I love that one too.
Great presentation. 👍
well, they sold me, and I ordered one, only to find out that it may not be available and shipped until June. that is disheartening.
This certainly is a case of diminishing return.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uUlvLVkYyc
WP hand tools are expensive but at the same time give the builder a huge return for their dollar. I am slowly replacing some of my measuring tools with WP products. I place Starrett/BCT/Blue Spruce and WP all in the same category. For my needs they are all interchangeable in fit finish and performance. You get what you pay for with these tools. Continued success Woodpecker and continued innovation
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I have two of the Woodpeckers squares, they are okay. Really don’t need the zillion other variations.
Can’t afford it, too expensive for DIY person like myself
I’ll keep my Starrett.
Overpriced
I, just got mine, but the cheeks that got with the stainless steel pins are not pressed all the way in, there’s a gap from the cheeks to the square.
Does anyone has experience this with the 1281 square?
great video would love to have just cant afford it
Just received mine yesterday. Tested it, and it equals my Empire combination square, 1/32” off at 12”.
I think its it’s popular because of the red anodized finish.
Is the t-square holder behind you a custom build? If so, do you have plans available?
Hello,
First, I love the Woodpeckers Tool’s. 😊 but in Germany all tool’s form Woodpeckers sold out since a few month.
Thanks from Germany for the incredible Tools.
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whats shipping price to uk.thanks
I think it’s three things mainly; 1) the lip, 2) how solid it is (the thickness has never been useful in any way to me, quite the opposite, except the one thing, that it stays true, I trust it), 3) for a WP piece, it’s sort of affordable. I would want it thinner. Or beveled like the T-600 and buy two, beveled each way. I want holes in it. It’s not perfect, but it’s sturdy and true, and practical.
I like the stainless blade version better, but there’s an appeal to this one as well for sure. I’d blame the popularity at least in part on the many youtube woodworkers who have that red beauty.
Just like a Harley Davidson, way overpriced. You can keep it woodpeckers. I’ll use something else.
I am too slowly replacing my old tools with WP tools.. I have to say though, you guys are the “APPLE” of tools as far as design and appearance goes.. Pretty and functional… 🙂
I own this tool and absolutely love it.
Just the right size, if you use just the right sized drawer or frame…or piece of plywood. Still a very good tool.
Jeff, thanks again for another information "Deep Dive". I already have a 1281R on order with a few other goodies as well, and I’m trying to decide on either aluminum or S.S. for the 18×12 and 26×16. I too like the solidness of the aluminum, but with the thickness of the blade parallax on the markings is a concern for me. I don’t see that there is a version available with a tapered edge like you have on your T-Squares, is that right? If not, that would be a nice feature, especially for us older woodworkers. Thank, Chuck
Got mines today happy camper and American Made, so happy twice.
I like this square. However, I wish the graduations along the blade would go ‘around the corner’ of the edge of the blade just slightly. With that thick of a blade (which is nice for other uses), it’s too easy to make a measurement error when the surface you’re marking is so far below the top of the blade.
Are these aluminum tools from Woodpeckers easily scratched or dented. If I accidentally bobble it and drop it will it be ruined?
I can’t get one in the UK grrrrrrr
Have it; love it; would buy it again; well worth the price; the bonus – Made in the USA.
I have the stainless steel version. It is accurate enough to calibrate some of my other tools.