Chris Friesen wrote:
Jim In FL wrote:
I've been debating purchasing a 12" Machinist's Square. Would be
awfully nice to be able to quickly verify some of my tool setups by
checking, let's say for example, a 12" plus crosscut off my sled or
sliding miter. Or verifying, with some exactness (is that a word ?)
that a cabinet side is really square with the bottom.

Pay $5 for a large Staedtler plastic drafting triangle. Very accurate,
quite inexpensive.

Chris

As stated else where spend the money for a speed square that will have
the same accuracy and not break the first time you drop it on the floor,
set something on it, or a hundred other things that are not suppose to
happen to good tools.

I picked mine up at K Mart to exhaust a gift certificate for Christmas.
It has become my most use shop tool. Marking wood, setting up the
table saw, etc.