check events board for challenge list ;-)

Re: check events board for challenge list ;-)

Jim in Burlington Ontario

>It's a tad over my head but I'm sure cuious to see what comes of it. The no ruler part is interesting.

Guys..they used rules and squares

Jonathan Peck -N.Y.

>Fellow woodworkers,collectors and historians. These old dudes used graduated rulers and squares....and they were graduated to the quarter of an inch. Let's keep it real.

Here's a message from Tom Holloway regarding this:

Gentle Galoots:

I have received a couple of off-list queries about the "Moxon" reference in my recent plea that rules, squares, and dividers have been around for a long time. Turns out my "1685" date was not quite right. The first volume was published in 1678, and the second in 1684. Plate 4, between pp. 68 and 69, shows a marking gage that woul have Ralph amazed, a brace that Sandy could embrace, a square that's all there, a bevel that's on the level, (the plumb bob level is in plate 8, in the section on house carpentry), a gimlet Tony might covet, a framesaw that I hold in awe - along with planes, benches, etc. Plate 5, before p. 63, shows a rule marked in quarter inches, compasses (dividers), and "pricker" (marking awl). The text has a lot of discussion of how these and other tools were fettled and used.