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Re: Shop: Paddle carving bench
By:Etienne Muller
Date: 1/15/2016, 5:39 pm
In Response To: Re: Shop: Paddle carving bench (Mike Bielski)

For smaller lengths I like the flat metal rulers. I have some six inch, twelve inch and 18 inch ones. I like them for stuff like paddle making because you can run a mark along the end of them.

I also have a metre ruler that I only use for marking, never cutting against with a knife. I searched through five or six in the store before choosing the one I wanted. The guy in the store was looking at me funny, because they were all the same. I told him I was looking for a straight one. He didn't believe me until I held them up against the edge of a metal shelf and showed him light coming through.

Then we went off to find a sliding set square that was actually square. That was even harder to find.

Et

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Shop: Paddle carving bench *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 1/10/2016, 1:41 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/11/2016, 12:21 am
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Etienne Muller -- 1/11/2016, 6:04 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 1/11/2016, 8:39 am
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Etienne Muller -- 1/11/2016, 6:08 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 1/11/2016, 6:45 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 1/12/2016, 4:42 am
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Les Cheeseman -- 1/12/2016, 11:08 am
Re: Shop: Paddle carving bench *NM*
Mike Bielski -- 1/12/2016, 1:33 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 1/12/2016, 1:33 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/13/2016, 12:42 am
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Randy -- 1/13/2016, 8:30 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/14/2016, 12:11 am
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Mike Bielski -- 1/15/2016, 4:20 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 1/15/2016, 5:39 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/15/2016, 11:27 pm
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scottbaxter -- 1/16/2016, 12:00 am
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Les Cheeseman -- 1/15/2016, 4:23 pm