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Shinwa Carpenter's Squares - Hard Chrome Finish - 8 Scales -150mm Reviews

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Shinwa small Japanese carpenters square with deeply etched metric full mm graduations inside and outside on both faces.
Made using hard chrome plated stainless steel hardened to Hv320+ for the perfect balance of stability and springiness and no worries about rusty fingermarks.
Japanese carpenters squares are flat, they are used in the same way as a framing square, with one leg hung over an edge with its face acting as a stock.
Adding a 90/45 degree stopper improves on the versatility of Shinwa's Japanese carpenters square: you can use it for marking parallel to an edge or at 45 degrees, as a caliper, or turn the stopper the other way around and use it as a height gauge.
Product Dimensions: Long Branch: 170 x 20 x 2.0mm, Short Branch: 85 x 20 x 2.0mm 
Square to better than 0.1mm/100mm
Conforms to JIS B7534
Made in Japan.
Shinwa video which shows other ways to use a square.

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As good-quality as you expect from Shinwa. Very light without feeling cheap, and the finish makes it feel nice in the hand. Use this all the time now for both marking and measuring — it makes my old mini combination square feel clunky, heavy and over-engineered in comparison. And with the optional stop, it makes it just as good as a combination square for drawing lines parallel to the workpiece edge. Better, in fact, as there's a small circular gap in the corner, which is handy for poking a pencil tip through. And the stop is also way less of a faff to reinstall after removing. ALSO, the metal stop has a mini vernier scale on it, which means you can use the square as a caliper, which isn't just a gimmick — it genuinely works really well. Feel a bit weird gushing over a ruler, but what can I say... it's so satisfying when simple tools work so well.
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Posted 9 months ago