Subject: Blacksmith rule

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 15:59:39 -0400

Found them at Porter Walker Inc. 1-800-737-1631,Larry Henderson.

Its 2 foot, folds once has inches in 16ths one side and inches in
8ths with circ. inches on other

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 08:46:46 -0600

>8ths with circ. inches on other

An old standard Carpenter's square can sometimes be bought at a garage sale
or at an auction for next to nothing.  Cut one leg off.  You can have a two
foot rule or about a sixteen inch rule depending on which way you cut it.
No folding, but durn cheap.

Mike George

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From: [email-masked] (Gene Olson and Chris Wilson)
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 13:49:32 -0400 (EDT)

>or at an auction for next to nothing.  

Cut one leg off. 

Almost off 
and you'll have a nice hook rule, that'll catch the end of the piece so you
can read it faster and more accurately.

Gene

 The Studios of Gene Olson and Chris Wilson  Metals, Stone, Mixed Media
  8600 NE O'DEAN AVE, ELK RIVER, MN 55330
  URL: http://www.cris.com/~mettlewk/

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From: "K. E. Valdejo" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 16:42:30 -0500

>No folding, but durn cheap.
Leave a little of the cut off leg and you have a nice big hook rule. Get
another one and cut out various widths, i.e., 1/4" thru 1" by quarters and
you have what the Germans call a blacksmith's helper (not to be confused
with the Smithin' Magician).
Very handy when working tenons or tapers. Works on round or square, the
holes don't know the difference.

Kenny Valdejo
Bittersweet Forge
Millstadt, IL
[email-masked]
There has been an alarming increase in things that I know absolutely nothing
about!