Measuring and Marking Tools - Page 16 of 25

An alternative solution for when there isn't enough headroom for a standard landing.

Measuring along the bottom of the rafters and using a site-built jig simplify the process.

With a housed stringer on one side and an open, mitered stringer on the other, these stairs look harder to build than they are.

When it really matters how close you are to dead center on a circle, this tool (see drawing) can help you to get spot on. To make it, dado a…

Sometimes it's useful to know the radius of an arch or head casing long before the shop work takes place. I have found the formula above provides precise dimensions and…

If you understand the twelfth scale, your square becomes a durable calculator that never needs batteries.

Trim carpenters are inevitably faced with needing to measure accurately from the short point on a mitered piece of trim. Problem is, the tape measure's hook can't get a purchase…

My client installed carpeting in three rooms of her 70-year-old home, rooms that had never been carpeted and, consequently, never had their door bottoms trimmed. When I got to her…

Framing squares are like levels. You expect them to be reliable and accurate, but they aren't always. Sometimes a square just isn't, well, square. You can check one for accuracy…

I stuck a hunk of adhesive-backed 80-grit sandpaper on the back of my drywall square, as shown in the drawing. The sandpaper keeps the square's tongue from sliding around when…