Well I'll be darned..... Had to run down to the workshop
and drag out the framing square. Never took a real close
look at this thing but was thrown for a loop. I recall
a few years ago I was building an octagon table and spent
some time laying out the cuts.... and there is was on the
framing square all the time! sheesh

Marty

DLB wrote:
On Jun 22, 5:50 am, Topaz wrote:
This is an appeal to rec.ww's.
Does anyone have a copy of the Audel publication Carpenters and
Builders Library Book #1, containing information on Framing Squares?
It must be a about a 1923 print, or reprint thereof.

There is an ongoing discussion on some roof framing forums about how
to use the Octagon table. Not the table on a modern square, used to
turn a square-sided post into an eight-sided one. The Eagle square
made in those days had a set of scales to set out the angles of
rafters for an octagon roof; one of those scales appears to be "wrong"
- but it can't be !

It would be great if someone has a copy and is prepared to post how
the hip side cut (octagon) scale should be interpreted.

Topaz

Try:
http://www.wkfinetools.com/z_media/a...uare-Vol.1.pdf