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I had no specific purpose for this square<\/a>, but because it looked like it might be<\/strong> a player<\/a>, I added it to a larger order from Lee Valley Tools. After unpacking the shipment, I nonchalantly placed it aside into the tool well of my workbench.<\/p>\n Over the next few weeks, I found myself picking it up over and over for all sorts of measuring and squaring tasks. This may be the best way to\u00a0assess the usefulness of a<\/strong> new tool<\/a>:<\/strong> leave it on the<\/strong> “bench”,<\/strong> like an extra player, casually go to it now and then, and as you become increasingly impressed with its performance, promote it to the starting line up<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s how this tool earned its role as a starter for me. First, it is very handy<\/strong> – small and light. The clean graduations with a sensible height organization and the satin finish make it easy on the eyes<\/strong>. The scales on both legs start at the inner and outer corners and are the same on both faces<\/strong> so I don\u2019t get confused or make errors. I generally prefer to visually split 1\/16ths rather than use 1\/32-inch gradations but it is helpful to have the 1\/32nds on the small legs for fine work.<\/p>\n It works beautifully as a short hook rule<\/strong>, such as to check stock thickness. Also, either leg butts securely against a surface for accurate inside or height measurements. Overall, I like handling\u00a0the “L” shape more than using a 6-inch rule.<\/p>\n When I evaluated it using a Starrett combination square as\u00a0the standard, I found it far exceeded<\/strong> Lee Valley\u2019s statement of accuracy. It was straight and square within 0.001″ over its full length.<\/p>\n And,<\/strong> it\u2019s got a 38″ vertical leap and clocks 4.4 in the 40. Just kidding.<\/p>\n As for dislikes,<\/strong> I find the large relief on the inside corner to be unnecessary, and it prevents penciling a line all the way to that corner. (Veritas seems to like this inside corner design.\u00a0I find it very annoying on their otherwise excellent saddle square<\/a>.) Also, a flat square like this will be inaccurate if it is held so as to occupy more than one plane when checking a corner. This is not a criticism of this tool but just a reminder of the nature of a flat square and that it does not replace a regular square.<\/p>\n In summary, this little guy is a gamer,<\/strong> a go-to tool in the shop.<\/p>\n [This review is unsolicited and uncompensated.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had no specific purpose for this square, but because it looked like it might be a player, I added it to a larger order from Lee Valley Tools. After unpacking the shipment, I nonchalantly placed it aside into the tool well of my workbench. Over the next few weeks, I found myself picking it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-reviews","category-tools-and-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4227,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/4227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}