A dollar well-spent…

150 years ago this carpenters square was a tool that most tradesmen would know how to use… in my engineering school days… it was the equivalent of an HP 29C… in today’s world it had the indispensability of a laptop.

You can’t see it in these photos but, both blades are tapered to the tip… you can see that the numerals were cut-stamped.

In that time period several texts were written about its use. It was used by tradesmen and found its way to the kit of a guy who ran a long-or gotten sawmill just, outside of Stouffville.

I bought it for a buck… and have just finished a light cleaning with “Peak” to keep the metal black. My guess is that if you went to a shop today and had someone build it the way it was built… the cost would be north of $200…

Really though… what was once likely the everyday job of one person start-to-finish could arguably be considered art… and to me personally, art at its finest.