Top Speed Square Hacks Every Builder Needs
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- Learn how to master the speed square for roof framing, cutting rafters, making birdsmouth cuts, and more in this simple and informative video! Perfect for carpenters of all skill levels.
0:00 Intro
0:40 Swanson Speed Square
1:13 Speed Square Basics
2:09 Layout Features
3:43 Wall Layout
4:31 Heel
4:41 Scribe Marks
5:33 What is the Pivot?
5:54 Angle Scales
6:57 Rafter Plumbcut
7:30 Rafter Length
7:47 Pro Tip: Birdsmouth
8:38 Rafter Angles NO MATH
9:16 STEEP ANGLES EASY
10:38 Martinez Square Features
13:14 Complimentary Angles
14:15 Drawing Circles
14:36 What Square Do I recommend?
17:07 Outtakes
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The way you explained it each feature and then gave us an example with real world uses was great. Love the video
Also .. The Speed Square comes in useful for scraping ice off a windshield . Snow off of laid out plates from the day before , Mud off of boots , works like a rasp when the drywall artist extends his drywall into a door RO a wee too far . Helpful for screeding across a floor for that elusive nail head sticking up , Great as a spacer for baseboard and shimmying over a door in the RO when a pry bar isn't handy . Also has similar flight characteristics of a Flying Wing for those annoying carpenter helpers . The booklet is nice up until you till your roof becomes wicked . The tables work on normal roof pitches . It's a very useful tool and a must for any carpenter's quiver
I personally would not use a speedsquare for cleaning ice off a windshield. Aluminum is a much much harder material than needed. If it has scratches and wear it will be worse
@@olgajoachimosmundsen4647 I agree wholeheartedly . I have had to find something to scrape and rush to work . I wouldn't have done it on my new Ford Supercrew but it was my beater 2003 Ranger . As long as I have been a carpenter . I am not the type that neatly folds the powercord on my Bosch Jigsaw , Clean it with tounge oil and and have it on a two week service plan . Those kind of neat freaks that act like thier tools have been woven on the looms of angels drive me crazy . Yeah I know it's not best for cleaning a windshield . Necessity is the mother of some radical problem solving
Everything is awesome about your channel. Valuable, funny content. Well edited. Nice music. I wish as an apprentice I have had the opportunity to be taught by someone like you.
Looking forward to the next one.
Excellent refresher. Clearly explained then demonstrated - the best way to teach, IMHO. Must see for new framers. Thanks for taking the time away from the job to put this together.
I can tell how much fun you had editing this one, Tim. 😁
Not as much fun making the video onsite. Cameras overheating, microphone not connecting.......
Excellent video Tim very helpful for younger carpenters
At 2:30
Pet peeve: Being the Plate Man for many years, always mark the opening first. Start at the inside of the trimmer/jack stud, then mark outward to the king stud.
• Other than that, very nice and informative video 👍😁
I agree with you. In my other videos showing layout, Ive said exactly the same thing.
Thanks for posting. 🤙 That square has way more features than I realized. Great stuff to learn for a home gamer like myself.
Finding the complimentary angle or “reverse angle” as I’ve referred to it as during my career that way is a great trick!! 20yrs ive been doing (🤔90-38=52) …
Simple yet effective much like myself ☝🏼
great video! thank you sir for the education!
I've been enjoying the videos. 💪
Great video let’s do the rafter square next.
Gorgeous square for gorgeous carpenter😂
16:12 “I don’t smoke, I don’t chew”
“I just take good money and spend it on my square”
Love it! As someone who has quit tobacco years ago and drinking as of the past year, I can’t stress enough just how nice it is to have a tool addiction. After you wake up the next day, it’s still there. You don’t feel bad or hungover, just buy once and cry once and it’s over.
Congrats on sobriety bro.
I bought a simple aluminium speed square about a year ago and for the rough woodworking I do it is perfectly adequate.
Agree with the thought on cheap v expensive tools
Use very occasionally…go cheaper
Learning how to use/what you are doing cheaper
Once you know what you need /want
Buy the best you can afford
Probably give up a few things to get it
It helps you appreciate the better tool every time you use it.
Just upgraded my table saw using the same logic, I too smile every time I use it.
Thank you! I've only used simple aspects of the speed square before, but my old square might not have the options yours does?
The Swanson also has an edge alignment indicator for 22.5 degrees build into the frame (i.e. an edge of a hole as opposed to using the scale). It's the funny little notch close to the pivot.
Great point. It didn't until the Martinez came out. I totally forgot it has that now 🤦
Tim I am a finish guy? I hv a Martinez Square 4” and 7” ( I think it’s seven) ? Then a Starett 6” “T” Square a Rockler Multi mark, Pro carpenter or Stabila 16’ Tape ( depending if I am doing cabinets). a small 1/2” x6” Empire rule in mm and w/ conversion on the back, a Stanley Hard Plastic Bullet level( my dad gave that to me after using it 20+ yrs ? ) .
And I still miss my mark now & again? I carry them in a Akibus custom set of leathers ! They are covered in glue where I rub my hands off on my bags ? Lazy ? It peels off ? It’s a preservative?
Thk u for the video ! I enjoy hearing from a pro carpenter!
Tim; Martinez’s also come in Aluminum like an entry level square ! Still expensive but not the same as Titanium! That allowed me to buy the 4” & 7” Martinez’s! U just can not pry with them and it does not have the “ Nut Twister” on it? ( very difficult to place that last part in but it’s true?
Hv a fantastic build brother!
Timmy, use Sand bags to hold it down, they are cheap!!! Liked#42 N Subscribed!!!
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Real question is where did you get that pencil? Very cool
Yeah was thinking the same thing. I was using my pencil the other day it was such a little nub it got stuck in my pouch and took 10min to get out 😂
pica carpenter pencil
Pica dry. The pencil works well as long as it doesn't get water into it combined with dust. That will mess it up. Personally I've tried several different pencils like it and they always fail eventually. Carpenter's pencils are not the best, but are cheap and holds up
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077HXNTHZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Where do I get a pencil like the one you used in this video?
i believe that's a Pica big dry construction marker
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077HXNTHZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
@@AwesomeFramers WOW! Thank you for the fast reply. You reached the Florida Panhandle ;-)
What brand of mechanical pencil are you using ? Has it replaced the old standard
looks like a Pica big dry construction marker
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077HXNTHZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
You don't have any sandbags to use on the tripods?
Nope
What is brand of the fancy pencil.
looks like a Pica big dry construction marker
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077HXNTHZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Wait, there's numbers on there?
Is it cool, absolutely. But if it cant outperform a typical speed square i cant see myself buying it.
A martinez or stilleto framing hammer for constsntly building/stripping forms is an absolute buy
You really need to use the hulfator pencil and hammer .it pisses all over the pica and martinez hammers .at a fraction of the price .thank me later
You do know Hulfators purchased Martinez Tool in 2022.
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Great vid! Should spend a lil of that square money on gym equipment, that belly is lookin a little big! Want you to stay healthy as long as possible so you can keep making these vids!
I appreciate your suggestions. I spend 5 days a week in the gym. ......also 7 days a week eating carbs.
@@AwesomeFramers 😆👍
The worst possible way to demonstrate using a circular saw if you're teaching. The average rookie will almost always hold that cutoff wrong and cause the saw to kickback and possibly chop his thumb off. You should be cutting at the other end like a true right-handed Carpenter. Tighten up Bro!
Good point,you and other rookies should be careful.
Why does every builder need this?
There were very successful builders long before speed squares.
As for laying out roof rafters, there is far more information on the old school framing square.
Not saying mind you that a speed square isnt a very usefull tool.
But lets not attempt to B S those who know better.
No one is attempting to "BS" anyone. This video is about speed square uses, NOT roof framing. Showing an example of a birdsmouth is NOT a video on roof framing. There's always one, you are that guy.
@@AwesomeFramers I just happen to be one who called you out Tim.
Your opinion on what every builder needs is simply a matter of your opinion.
Others in the modern world might think every builder needs to own an excavator, are you one of those also Tim? lol
@@ernieforrest7218 called me out? No you didn't. You just outed yourself 😂😂😂
@@AwesomeFramers Friend, let me remind you of something you obviously didnt know.
Following WW2, in the late 40s a builder by name of Levitt built an entire city of 17.000 houses, along with all the shopping centers, municiple buildings, etc. etc. etc. on long island NY.
In the early 50s he duplicated the same city in Bucks County PA. where i happened to live, and was then working in the home building industry.
He then went to New Jersey and did the same thing again in what is now known as Willingboro N.J.
Now friend thats just one builder, and there were many others as well.
NONE, READ MY LIPS, I SAID NONE, of the thousands of men working on those houses had a speed square.
IN fact as i recall it was about the 80s untill the speed square was first on the market.
Prior to that nobody had ever even seen one.
So now tell me again how necessary they are for a carpenter to have stuck in his tool belt along with every other tool he owns.
So you can use the newer version ones to scribe lines on a board. BIG WHOOP.
Can you scribe any width line? or just at the places selected on the speed square?
Have you ever heard of a combination square friend?
With one of those, which by the way olden day carpenters had, you can make the line any place you want.
Because they are adjustable for that very reason.
Can you layout stair horses with a speed square friend?
Have you ever laid out stair horses? or do you just buy the one size fits all version at Home Depot.
Guess what else friend, Home Depot came along just in time to sell speed squares to all the nimrods.
Prior to that there were real lumber yards with many having custom millwork shops.
Yes we have lots of excellent tools today that werent available in my early years in the industry.
None in my opinion have been more usefull than the sawsall.
The speed square although a usefull tool, would rate far down the list.
Too bad the square can’t measure shirt sizes😂😂😂😂
Plastic square for roof stacking