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Hello: I'm not a particularly good carpenter so excuse what may seem a
dumb post. Basically I have a terrible time with how I take down
cutting measurments. I use scraps of paper, pices of wood, etc. even
resorted to a roll of taping paper on tool belt.

Is there a better way== a handy device out there to record cuts and
info? A wrist pad? I know several makers of tape measures have a
recordable device in them. Not exactly what I'm looking for.


I can't help but wonder what you found to be unacceptable with a pad of
paper? Anything electronic is useless in my book - for a couple of reasons.
1) it's just too damned cutesy and addresses a problem that doesn't really
exist. 2) it doesn't allow you to associate the numbers with anything. A
pad of paper works well to draw your cuts out and write the measurements on
the drawing - extremely valuable for complex cuts. And... it just doesn't
get any simpler than that.

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-Mike-