Hand Tools Archive 2008
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Clever idea... () Dominic in Buck's County PA
>Like that idea, eh? It just sort of "happened" while I was working one day. I was thinking of away to easily identify my chisels without having to pick up each one every time, or to avoid color coding (which works really well, but I think looks awful)
Its a variation on an old trick from my years as a "CADD guy". You see, AutoCad used to store scale factors for drawings in "1/4s" so when you drew a drawing and wanted it to appear at a scale of 1"=1'-0", you had to scale the text up by a global factor of 12. After a while you knew by the global scale factor what the "real world" scale was.

