I have a bad ruler

You may need more than a ruler.....

Barry Irby

Which way were you going? Is the frame too big or the panel too small?

I feel like you could have gotten closer than that without a ruler. Maybe you should use a story stick.

I can explain to those that don't fish...

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

I happen to know that Joe fishes, and because he fishes he has a ruler to measure his fish. We all do. Well, it is obvious that Joe mistakenly used the fish ruler to measure the panel and a shop ruler for the frame. While they each indicated the correct and identical measurement one was in fish inches and the other in wood inches. The solution is a simple matter of returning the fish ruler to the tackle box.

Something tells me . . .

Yonak

Something tells me the measuring was being done while the Browns were playing the Steelers.

As a rule.......

Mark Hennebury

I don't use rulers, guess why?

i seem to recall a discussion recently about rulers.

You wont ever do that with a story stick...... ever is a long time.

You must be using one of those metric /standard measure rulers, designed to confuse even more.

Story stick, story stick, story stick.

Quick ; add 2-3/16" + 2-1/4" plus 24-3/8" + 3 x 1/16" + 6-7/8" + 2' 4-1/4"

It's a miracle if you would ever get anything correct.

Why would you put yourself through that torture?

Throw out your measuring equipment, squares and rulers etc. and you wont make measuring mistakes or set your equipment up wrong. Learn to transfer and reference.

Trust no measurements; Transfer.

Oh, and if you insist on this madness......buy lots of extra wood.

You need two

paul in AZ

Classic tale about a Persian rug dealer asking his helper to get a ruler.

Kid says: "Which one? The one for buying or the one for selling?"

Thats close enough, Just glue it! ha

Design Opportunity!!

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey

How creative! A sliding raised panel door! Way Cool!

Re: Something tells me . . .

Joe in a Cleveland suburb

I've lived here since the 60's.

Long enough to know to not bother...

Re: I can explain to those that don't fish...

Joe in a Cleveland suburb

That darn fishing ruler. Gets me every time.

Actually, I quit fishing in the early 80's. My dad had a 30' Penn Yan and we used to fish and scuba dive ship wrecks in Lake Erie. We used to catch lots and lots of Walleye. I never ate them and felt bad killing them. So I quit.

Dad and I early 70's Coldwater Lake MI.

All is not lost

Joe in a Cleveland suburb

It's just the rails that are too long. Fortunately.

I just need to cut them to the proper length and cope them.

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AZ in Colorado Springs

The saying goes: measure twice and cut once.

A few years back, I measured three times, just to be certain ... but I was looking at the wrong dimension on the drawing and made a similar error.

It did become a design opportunity for improvement. I was making a desk, and the panels were 3/4" short. I widened the lower rails by 3/4" and in the end it looked much better.

Re: I can explain to those that don't fish...

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

Didn't eat them! For two summers I lived in a tent near Tupper Lake NY with my great uncle. We fished Tupper 7 days a week for walleye and ate them 6 days a week. Friday he gave the fish to Catholics and he cooled a steak over the fire. That said, that's a Northern in the PIC and they are even better eating, especially that size. What I would give for one for dinner tonight.......

Now about that fishing ruler.....

Re: Design Opportunity!!

John K Jordan

I love the bold, asymmetrical design.

I once DID have a bad ruler

Pete in Holland MI

Years ago, I bought a bunch of used tool maker measuring things (rulers, micrometers, calipers, etc) from an estate.

One of the steel rules was assigned my garage tool box. Was measuring for some replacement parts, and after several measures and cuts that ended up long, I noticed that that 18" ruler was longer than the other 18" ruler in the tool box. Closer examination showed that that ruler was marked as a "shrink rule" used in casting pattern making. Metal shrinks in a casting upon cooling, so it is compensated by building a slightly bigger pattern, thus the need for a shrink rule.

That ruler was painted with a bright strip to avoid future accidents !

Pete

Re: I once DID have a bad ruler

Jerry Gibbs

Curious why you kept it.

Re: I once DID have a bad ruler

Don Stephan

Maybe to loan to brothers in law and perennial borrowers?

Re: I have a bad ruler

William Duffield

The first piece of basic advise you will get from experienced furniture makers is to choose and use just one rule for the whole project. (See the link below for how to escape from the horns of this dilemma.)

A second accuracy technique is, whenever possible, to measure directly from whatever you are fitting to. If that is not possible, transfer the dimension with a clean, ungraduated story stick.

If all else fails, you you will need one (or more) of these:

http://www.leevalley.com/us/wood/page.aspx?p=65357&cat=,75235&ap=1

Understood.  Lived in Lionsland for 70 years

Re: Understood.  Lived in Lionsland for 70 years

Joe W, Detroit

At least you have heard or seen a championship from them. I've got one playoff win with twelve men on the field in 50+ years.

Re: I once DID have a bad ruler

Pete in Holland MI

Have a habit of not getting rid of old tools, even though they are no value to me. Have sometimes saved the day with someone else, pulling an obscure tool from the archives and giving it to them.