Protractor . . .

Re: Protractor . . .

Thom D

>Do you mean like a smaller version of the "protractor" head LV sells for the starrett? I use mine quite a bit, I also use the small bevel tool they brought out a few years back. I wished for it, and it was there. Nice when that happens. In cabinetmaking when working with a bunch of angles I think the bevels are a lot handier. The protractor heads don't flip so if you have to mark the angles from both sides you are stuck moving the head, which is not good for accuracy. If the angle actually maters I either cad it, lay it out with trig, or lay it down on a story piece from the Starrett, then I pull it off and work with it with one bevel for each repeat use angle. I don't move those bevels for the length of the project. And the strongest bevel for that is probably the General.

"I want tools they either never made or quit making fifty years ago "

Sounds like a job for Bridge City Tools!!

Roger that, We'll go take a look-see ! Thank you !

Steve Mackay

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Bridge City " RECON " . . .

Steve Mackay

>OH MY ! I've been brought back to earth with a crash. Gives new meaning to up-scale. Pretty neat stuff though. Gonna be penny-saving for a LONG time ! (as he surveys his humble collection of hand-me-downs !) True tool-lust !

If you want tool lust

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>find somewhere you can handle L.S. Starrett tools. These are PRO-grade tools, and you can tell it from the feel of the tools. I still am trying to figure out where the tiny little ball bearings are in their square heads - they just glide along the rule so smoooooothly.

Well...Here's one... *LINK*

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA

>Here's some others:

http://catalog.starrett.com/catalog/catalog/PLH2.asp?NodeNum=21489&Mode=PLIST

But wait! There's more!

http://catalog.starrett.com/catalog/catalog/PLH2.asp?NodeNum=20845&Mode=PLIST


Starrett Protractors

Re: If you want tool lust

Steve Mackay

>Yes Sir ! I've " inheritaed" Some Starret and even Lufkin tools from Dad. And they HAVE'NT made some of it for fifty years. But, man, are they sweet !

Re: If you want tool lust

Thom D

>If it makes you feel any better, I'm not sure that BCT stuff is so wonderful on a functional basis. They started out making over the top accurate squares and such. Then they found out people would buy them...

Starrett fan here too

Deirdre Saoirse Moen

>I keep teasing my hand tool teacher that he must own stock in Starrett, because every time he gets out another one of their tools, we're all writing down the part number so we can go buy one.

The only large-scale precision toolmaker left making tools in the US, alas.

How about a trammel set?

jim reed @ tallahassee

>Protractor is nice to have, but I get more use out of my trammels. Nifty things to have and verrrry handy around the workbench. Added benefit is that it is another type of tool to collect.

Re: How about a trammel set?

Steve Mackay

>LOL ! YES SIR ! I keep tabbing trammels on the bay. My problem is I want an old brass Victorian set. I'm also cheap. I keep getting skunked at about $40.00 ! One day a set will slip through to the poor folk !

My first one

jim reed @ tallahassee

>was a pitiful Stanley orphan. I sunk a nail in the end of a stick as a fixed point. Worked well until I got lucky on the 'bay. Patience will help you win.