Friday, February 13, 2015
Square One Tape Measure
FastCap Blog: Paul Akers discusses FastCap’s new Tape Measure called the Square One Tape Measure which has a normal scale on the top, but a hypotenuse on the bottom edge. It is an easy and fast way to check for square.
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I normally don’t do comments on tools, partially because they are just updated, or has a small change made, but the square one tape measure had some intrinsic value to it. As simple as it is, it definitely made things quicker to compare with. Of course, I’m sure there have been multiple times when I’ve wanted to check for something to be square, but it was just inconvenient because I didn’t have the tool at hand to do it. Now all you have to do is just look at the other side of the tape measure and line it up along the hypotenuse to check for the piece of wood to be square. I know sometimes it’s nice to be able to look at smaller measurements that are usually on the other side of the tape which get used more often than I think one tries checking for square in most situations.
First observation: they have our band saw! Further observations I always comment on tool posts. I am a big fan of all kinds of tools and I usually have strong opinions on them so they are perfect to comment on. This is another tool that for me, falls in the category of unnecessary tools. Any carpenter who is skilled enough to make things square should know the 3, 4, 5 rule rendering this tape useless. Instead of spending extra money for what appears to be a fairly low quality tape measure just to gain one little feature that should be common knowledge, I would rather have my strong stanley fatmax tape. Another feature that deters from this tape is the fact that the inch markings don’t cross both edges of the tape. I reference both sides of my tape all the time because I want the line I’m drawing (if I’m marking something) to be right on the inch line and I don’t want to have to transfer the line to the other side of the tape. In conclusion, This tape has a feature that could be useful but just using the 3,4,5 rule every tape has this function, plus this tape has some deterring functions like its structural quality and its markings.
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