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Excellent for layout & marking up ( 5 Customer Reviews )
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As a woodworker, you often need a good straightedge for layout and to check the flatness of wide surfaces if they have been hand or machine flattened.
A good steel straightedge does the trick. These are 1-5/16" wide, and we found them in a toolmaker’s shop in China, and picked them up as a great value. It’s important to recognize that these are not "Starrett" as you might use for machine shop set-up. (Nor do they cost, at 20-25% of a Starrett, anywhere near as much. If you need a Starrett kind of precision, you’ve got to spring for the big bucks.) But at a tolerance of 0.0005" per inch of length (their possible out-of-absolute-flat is about 1/64” over a full 36" - less of course, with a shorter length). That's plenty good for woodwork results checking (do you need a Rolls Royce to get to the mall?).
These have a bevel "knife edge" making them easy to "read". The edges are marked in decimal inches (machinist style) instead of imperial fractions or metric increments.
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A good steel straightedge does the trick. These are 1-5/16" wide, and we found them in a toolmaker’s shop in China, and picked them up as a great value. It’s important to recognize that these are not "Starrett" as you might use for machine shop set-up. (Nor do they cost, at 20-25% of a Starrett, anywhere near as much. If you need a Starrett kind of precision, you’ve got to spring for the big bucks.) But at a tolerance of 0.0005" per inch of length (their possible out-of-absolute-flat is about 1/64” over a full 36" - less of course, with a shorter length). That's plenty good for woodwork results checking (do you need a Rolls Royce to get to the mall?).
These have a bevel "knife edge" making them easy to "read". The edges are marked in decimal inches (machinist style) instead of imperial fractions or metric increments.
Click Here for more information.
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