Do you use a tape like this guy? When?
geoffhazel
| Posted in Construction Techniques on
I saw THIS PICTURE today and noticed the fellow was holding the tape with the hook on the far end, vs. hooking it onto the edge of the board.
I was wondering what was going on with that?
At first I thought perhaps he wasn’t wanting to read the numbers upside down, but if it was hooked on the left edge of the board the numbers should be right side up, so it kind of baffled me.
Unless there’s a good reason to hold a tape this way…???
edit:
I looked again and noticed he’s staring somewhere at the middle of the tape. Perhaps he’s measuring from a mark in the middle of the board to another spot in the field.
Edited 12/1/2008 3:26 pm ET by geoffhazel
Edited 12/1/2008 5:08 pm ET by geoffhazel
Replies
Is he transferring a dimension?
Grab the tape with your index finger to mark the end of a previous board. Now the hook to your index finger is a gauge.
edit: you lost your link
Edited 12/1/2008 3:26 pm by JMadson
...all the time- to mark... hold the pencil and the hook in one hand, thumb at desired point on tape, mark away...
He's using the end to mark the plywood at the prescribed length.
without seeing the picture it sounds like what I do when I layout coutouts and other holes in a sheet. In one hand is the hook of the tape with a pencil right up next to the hook and the tape body (with the tape locked at the dist.) in my other hand hooked over the edge and riding along to keep the tape perpindicular to the edge.
What picture?
Fixed the link. Lost it during the edit.
Watch sheetrock hangers work some day.
They run that tape along holding the measure end locked weith thumb and finger on edge of rock, and a knife on the dummy end of the tape, cutting along.This guy is using a pencil. Insterad of marking twice, then using a straightedge or chaulk line, as a third step, he is getting a pencil line run all with a single step. Not something for cabinet work, but for form work, Hey, anything within 2" is OK, right?;)
Welcome to the Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime. where ... Excellence is its own reward!
It kills me watching it try to get done with a tape.
Mush easier with a stick. Push out the extension a bit, hook the blade in there and rip away.
You don't even need a pencil in a pinch. You can scribe a line with the hook.
Edited 12/2/2008 12:20 am ET by popawheelie
often.. especially if i'm using the hook as a scratch mark.... or have a pencil in the hookMike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Also works to cut off a piece of sheetrock by hooking a knife blade inside the hook. Doesn't workthat way to do receptacle cutouts because of the overcuts, but as someone mentioned you can do the receptacle layouts easily with a pencil.
"Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
He's posing for a picture. We were in the paper once and the photog told me to look like you're doing something, I ran my finger along a piece of window casing (I guess) pretending to be smoothing caulk or something.
Family.....They're always there when they need you.
If you lose the saftey vest and showed a little butt cleavage that picture might be of me.
geoffhazel
I mark that way all the time ith a pencil on the dummie end.
Some people just can't get the technique down though.
Youv'e got to have good callouses to do it to plywood and OSB.
Rich
Youv'e got to have good callouses to do it to plywood and OSB.
or put some tape around your index finger and thumb tip, that helps with the splinters.
k
Yep, holds 'm in right snug, so they would fall out too easily.;)
Welcome to the Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime. where ... Excellence is its own reward!
hee hee, you're in a good mood tonight. what time is it in maine, like 12:30? I'm gettin' on a plane! keep the homefires burnin! hee hee
actually, I think JFink recommended some super special tape for just such a purpose.
and i once saw a TOH where Silva made a radiator surround with a sidewinder and a tape used like that. came out as good (better?) as mine would've on a table saw...
k
standard marking procedure for us rockers. Can get some nasty slivers off plywood when doing a rip line though.
When working with a partner, we take all the measurments that way.
Give me the end'o's
Give me the side'o's
You learn to compensate an 1/8 or a 1/4 for the way you hold your pencil
Mike
Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, big wheel turn by the grace of god.
what everyone else said is more likely, but, I have had to do that when I grabbed one of the tape measures that has one side of the tape marked with metric. Have to flip it around like that not because its hard to read the upside down numbers on the other side, but because its hard to roll the tape away from you to get it flat against the work piece for an accurate marking.