Modified Speed Square for Leveling

it, folks. All right, moving on. This is a good one cuz this is a framing tip, and I always am looking for framing advice just cuz I'm not that great on it, and uh, anything that'll make my life easier will be helpful. So, let's see here. What? He's taking an angle grinder to a speed square. What is he doing? Oh, he's like, why is he making a notch? Some speed square has have like a little divot hole for the pilot, but >> that's all you need. >> So he made a little 45 or a little just a little notch in there. >> We already ground out the >> reason that we do that is so that you can find a perfect horizontal line because like >> so that this is in case the wall is not perfectly level or flush or plum, I guess. Um and you're trying to get like a true vertical line that you can reference for your horizontal line. Um, so he's holding the triangle upside down, hanging the chalk line off of it, lining up to 45 degrees. At that point, you could snap it, I guess, but you got your perfect horizontal, then you can trace your vertical. I think he's using specifically for horizontal. Um, I don't know if this is that great of a hack just because I have an alternative way to do that. I just don't know if it's accurate. So, let's try it. Let me get my speed square. So, I got to put it at like a 45. [Music] I have my notched speed square. I have my string. I don't have my chalk line with me. It's in my trailer, but I just put some washers for weight. Put it on that little notch. Get it to lined up to 45° right there. And we have our perfect horizontal line. But you can also use this for a vertical line. But here's my objection. Uh if you wanted a vertical line, you could just do this. Let gravity do its thing. And if you wanted a horizontal line instead of modifying your tools, you could just do that. That looks more accurate. That one's hiding. This one's up about a 16th of an inch. All right. So, my final thoughts is if you're trying to get a nice vertical line uh on a big wall that you don't have like a 6ft level on hand, then this method works fantastic. However, he's selling us on the fact that this is for a horizontal line. But if it's for a horizontal line, wouldn't this be a better option than only dealing with like 10 in of a speed square? So, I say it's bogus. I don't think it's useful. I don't see a day-to-day application unless you have no level near you and you need to hang a picture frame with archaic jigs, I guess. But, uh,…