10+ Bonus Tips Taking the Mystery Out of Using a Speed Square & Framing Square 

Excellent tutorial big man! Keep up the good work!👍🏼

Great tips Sir. 👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 A few I already knew and use, but also learned quite a few I never knew of. Thank you.😊

Watching videos like this reminds me that there is plenty of things that I never knew but am sure glad I came across this tutorial. Thanks for helping me understand the use of these tools

You've provided an invaluable lesson to a guy like me that wants to learn how to accomplish some diy projects with a semblance of know how in the use of common tools already in the garage. Thank you.

Finding the Center of the Circle!..very, very clever..Love it. Putting the Acrylic Paint over the numbers...another great trick! Thank You.

good video. Thanks for what you do and for sharing it with us.

Found this channel from another channel. Glad i found it. Paw Paw has so much knowledge to share.

Thankyou you for making my speed square even more useful.

What a lot of good tips I’ve found out to today. Thanks a lot Chris in England.

Hi Paw Paw, I really like your video and tips, I will be watching more in the future.

Nice video with very helpful pointers. Thanks!

Now I can carry on my job with confidence 👍🏼 thank you indeed for you video and tips I learnt a lot Kind regards Fred London 💐👍🏼

Thanks Boss. Great Video filled with so many tremendous tips!

I love your video! Is about time someone is able to break down to me without any complicated approach as to knowing how to use these special tools.

THANKS -- Very helpful! Subscribed!

This was very well explained and very informative. I just saw your first video( this one) and subscribed. Now I probably have a lot of catching up to do Harleymike/chicago

we appreciate your teaching sir awesome tips 😊

Thanks very much Paw, Paw. All these years of using my speed square to help make a 90 cut with my skill saw, I had never thought to turn it around to give my support additional support, great video.

this is like watching a documentary revealing the secrets of the great pyramids , cheers mate thanks for the great tips all ive used mine for in the past is for scribing right angles and 45s

Fan from Morocco North Africa keep up good ideas thanks lot

Fantastic tips, I definitely learned some new tips

Thank you for the Video. Even though we are using a metric scale there were some good tips and tricks using a speed square and a framing square.

Great video. Thank you so much sir.

Great vid ,so many things learned

Great tips! I will use them!

Thank you for sharing, some very useful and interesting, and most appreciated information on both tools, now along with my 'sliderule' I can amaze friends and strangers alike. The one thing I did when I purchased a speed square a few months ago was to polish and paint it International Orange with black lettering and then sprayed a coat of clear satin so I could read it more easily - including the standard square as well.

God bless you! Thanks!

Speed square as a compass now that one was new to me thank you center finder was new too

Very helpful, sir!

I’m walking away with a lot of new information! Thx

Never got to do shop in high school now it kind of like I get to be in high school learning in shop thanks for that!

Great information 👍

Pawpaws workshop love it bro

That was a very interesting video! These tools have a lot science/trigonometry built into them!

great tips ive never seen before thanks

Thanks Paw Paw great video

Thanks for great tips! :)

Great information! Thank you.

Excellent .. Thanks!!

GREATEST' & EASY TO UNDERSTAND 🙏🙏 .

Great tips

Thanks for sharing

Appreciate all the tips! New Subscriber here 🙂✌️❤️

great vid pops.

Thank-you!

Carpenter pencil is 1/4" x 1/2" and can be used as a handy SPACER for either size when nailing down decking.

Great info thanks, especially the circle that will be useful as I've just tried to guess by looking at it. Can't imagine what happened in my house, though. Pretty sure the framing square has been around way before the mid 1940s and yet the studs seem to have been placed randomly everywhere throughout the house. Well they also used cardboard on the walls so I guess there were no standards back then lol

15:15 I had to chuckle. I have a 6" orange Speedlite with the numbers drawn in with a ultra fine sharpie, and I've also only got as far as the 45° mark!

I still have, and occasionally use, my father's framing square that he used in the early 1940's during the war to build my parent's first house. That house is still standing in DeRidder, La.

Very good video

Wow Paw Paw!

I like those Southeastern corn hole boards! I live in Ponchatoula.

useful video thx.

im 13 years in as a carpenter. on #3, with using the square as saw guide, this is entirely dependent on if the shoe of your saw is still parallel with the blade, you should always confirm the blade is parallel with the shoe first . #6 was a facepalm moment... i was just laying out jacks and kings today and never dawned on me to use that scale inside. #11 I never figured out either!

Good stuff

Thanks!

Technically its a 4 in 12 slope. Though we all say pitch, its wrong. Pitch is the ratio of total rise to total Span so if the building is 24' wide and has a total rise at the peaks of 12 feet it a 1/2 pitch. If it had a rise of 8' it would be a 1/3 pitch and so on....great video

great video! I especially love your Army flag holder in the intro. Any specifics or tips you can share on how you built it?

Hey, are you going to be doing behind the scenes things on Patreon?

Am I nuts or did you put the tape on the stud's edge and mark 16 inch centers? I think those 16 inch marks become the side marking for the stud. Am I wrong?

LOL, good luck with the 45% cut using the framing square and numbers on a 2x4 that has round-over'd edges. Also, i encourage everyone to learn how to check the squares for trueness. (Many are not 90 and with the framing square, you can true it with a nail punch and a combination square can be trued by shaving off metal on the aluminum section. It is rocket science so be warned. Just go out and get a Starrett and drop many hundreds of dollars :)

Like Linda said!

Getting to the Point Carpenter pencils won't roll away when placed on a slanted surface, such as a roof. Carpenters don't always have time to put the pencil back in their pocket and instead set the pencil down. It lies flat, and when they're ready to use it again, it's right where they left it. The pencils are also heavier and larger than a normal pencil. They're easier to get out of a pocket stuffed full of nails, screws or when fingers are cold and stiff. Another feature includes a larger lead that makes larger marks for cutting and trimming. Normal pencil sharpeners won't work for a carpenter pencil, and most carpenters don't have them around anyway. When properly sharpened with a utility knife, carpenter pencils have a point that's hard to break and stays sharp longer.

Cheap speed squares don't have the 3.5" diamond. Buy the good one for a couple buck more and some come with a booklet as well.

I learn from that

I’m a carpenter with over 50 years experience, I use a framing square and a combination square. Just saying.

I can see how the Speed square is very useful. Smaller and Faster.

I have a speed square like yours but mine doesn't have that diamond cutout in it. Only thing there is the trademark. (R).

Does it take time for you to trust your squares?

Damn! I wish i finished watching 3 days ago before painting the numbers with spray paint. While it works, i have a lot to sand off to see them. Acrylic would have been cleaner.

My DeWalt jigsaw has rounded edges on the base. Nothing works as a guide unless it's 1/4 inch or more, thick.

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what's important about 3 1/2 inches?

5:00 - What does the 3.5 inches on a job site represent? IDK.

Very good and informative Perhaps not say “the next thing I want to show you” so much?

I wish you would have shown people how to do a birds mouth with the speed square

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10 great ways to become squared away

4/12 is not pitch, it is slope. slope is indicated as unit rise over unit run in inches. Pitch is indicated as a ratio, it is total rise to span in ft.

2in x 4in means 1.5in x 3.5in. Only in America.

Sir I lack the your program.

Hold your string in the pivot point,it works just like the CL mark.Not all speed squares have a CL.If you work on a house from the early 1900's you will find that the 2x4's are real 2x4's.We just keep calling them 2x4's. The industry made them smaller to make a bigger profit.The building community just accepted the change and adapted. Don't think so? You still call it a "half gallon of ice cream." Go find a "half gallon of ice cream."

Seymore gizzard all due respecto

what no square chocks?????

It’s so it doesn’t roll away

why bring up the pencil comment if you were not going to say why? I wanted to know.

pencil is flat so it don't roll away:)

baaa cheated the speed square to match the framing square 45 degree mark

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There are a lot of lost young boys and girls that could benefit from you , that could find a good direction in , learning shop basis to utilize in their future in every d life, shop is basic to life and so many don’t know it . Basic fundamentals need to be brought back to the class room , some of the progressive garbage taught now has only contributed to the erosion of our society.

I guess asking you to use proper English is just too much. Nother nother user.

Hey, are you going to be doing behind the scenes things on Patreon?