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Establish First Equidistant Mark

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Framing square Friday #3

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What happens here

Position the framing square by aligning one of its arms (the blade or the tongue) flush with a straight edge of your plywood or material. The other arm should extend perpendicularly across the material. Using the pencil, make a clear mark on the perpendicular arm at a chosen, arbitrary measurement from the corner (the video uses 8 inches as an example).

Goal: Create an accurate first reference point for the 45-degree line.

Tools and materials

  • Framing Square — Providing a 90-degree reference and measuring
  • Pencil BOSS — Making the first measurement mark
  • Plywood — The material to be marked

What they say

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Do you need to draw a 45-degree line and you only have a framing square? Let's get after it. Take your framing square, line it up like this. Let's mark it at 8. Move it over. I like to move it up a little bit, and I'm going to mark this one at 8. Now, all I'm going to do is just connect the dots. Just like that, we can take our speed square.

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