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Started by skipskip, July 22, 2013, 05:08:23 PM

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skipskip

A place for everything and everything on the floor

dowdstools

It is a saw straight edge, used to test flatness when tensioning a saw blade.

Lynn

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Quote from: dowdstools on July 22, 2013, 05:23:30 PM
It is a saw straight edge, used to test flatness when tensioning a saw blade.

Lynn

Audel's Carpentry books show one of these in use.  But a steel straight edge is a good thing to have -- we kept a couple of them at the planing mill where I worked back in the '80s.