How To Use A Framing Square | Ask This Old House

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  • Up in the loft, general contractor Tom Silva shows host Kevin O'Connor a few different types of "squares" used for general carpentry.
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Komentáře • 78

  • @lowesonia8551
    @lowesonia8551 Před 5 lety +2

    For years my joy has been to repair, restore ,create furniture. Being an Artisan is the happiest occupation in Life . Be it in any material, earth plants . Wood anything , etc. Much more enriching than wealth. Today i can only watch others . But memories are there, of past achievements wonderful life.

  • @user-vc5rp7nf8f
    @user-vc5rp7nf8f Před rokem +3

    I like how fast and concise he delivers the info

  • @88rollins
    @88rollins Před 5 lety +8

    Tommy is the man! He's my write-in vote for president in 2020.

  • @ronmccarty7537
    @ronmccarty7537 Před 5 lety +6

    Quick concise explanation and detail! Learned a lot in less than 4 minutes! Learn how to set up a stair stringer in less than 10 seconds! I love this

  • @larrybair8074
    @larrybair8074 Před 5 lety +8

    Tommy is terrific!

  • @josephmauldin3
    @josephmauldin3 Před 5 lety

    As always, great information!!!!! Merry Christmas to all!!!

  • @josephnorcalusa1710
    @josephnorcalusa1710 Před 5 lety

    helpful information, thank you for sharing.

  • @jomangeee9180
    @jomangeee9180 Před 5 lety +1

    great video thanks guys

  • @kiwdwks
    @kiwdwks Před 5 lety +2

    Learned something...thanks!

  • @fmartino100
    @fmartino100 Před 5 lety

    Hi guys, that is great info on the most misunderstood tools. Thanks and Merry Christmas...Frank

  • @ADAILYBUZZ
    @ADAILYBUZZ Před 5 lety +2

    Tommy, Kevin. Other Cool Features - The Swanson Speed Square has a patented feature - the diamond cut, a diamond-shaped cut-out on the ruler edge of the tool. This is used for squaring on a line scribe-ed across the board so that you can then make a perfect 90° line from your scribe-ed angled to the edge of the board. Showed, me what I missed about my Speed Square on 45 degree side as a skill saw, fence. I've, used it as a skill saw fence, for accurate 90 degree straight cuts for years. But. Now, watching this video I've picked something new. It's, called Speed Square, because the inventor Al Swanson, said, "it speeds up my cuts, and helps make those cuts square and clean. So, I chose the name because of it's functionality not it's shape. It, gives you fast square cuts."

  • @shinguon
    @shinguon Před 5 lety

    Thanks for information 👍🏻

  • @ChristoefurQ
    @ChristoefurQ Před 5 lety

    Thanks guys, Amazing

  • @johndeneen980
    @johndeneen980 Před 3 lety

    Outstanding!

  • @donb5794
    @donb5794 Před 5 lety

    Great tips👍👍

  • @Dollar_Dad
    @Dollar_Dad Před 5 lety

    Mind blown!

  • @MikeTheMaker1
    @MikeTheMaker1 Před 5 lety +1

    I learned more from this video than I did in the first 5 years of work.

  • @faghihimohammad
    @faghihimohammad Před 5 lety +9

    Why we keep calling these triangles square? ;)
    jokes aside, I learned something new, so thanks :)

  • @faghihimohammad
    @faghihimohammad Před 5 lety +2

    I wish Tom was my grandfather, not because my own grandfather is not a cool guy, but because I could borrow Tom's tools for my projects :D

  • @mikejustice1196
    @mikejustice1196 Před 3 lety +1

    That brass screw at the tail on the combination square is used to scribe wood like dove tails or if you don’t have a pencil.
    Of course you have to unscrew it to use the pointed end of it.

  • @PedroRodriguez-hy5ty
    @PedroRodriguez-hy5ty Před 9 měsíci

    Tommy is the man

  • @seniorstout
    @seniorstout Před 5 lety

    Whole lee shit. Most knowledge and info packed into 3 minutes. Awesome!

  • @jrizz43
    @jrizz43 Před 2 lety

    love you tom

  • @ivanruiz3459
    @ivanruiz3459 Před 5 lety

    Mr. Tom you had a segment on cutting boards beautiful board but I didn't see you make a juices groove did I miss it.?

  • @MattyWill1
    @MattyWill1 Před 5 lety

    I love using Soars to cut Futty Fuuves.

  • @artystycznebudownictwo1229

    Hello :)
    Super job :)
    Like :)

  • @mikebianculli2614
    @mikebianculli2614 Před 5 lety

    Tom I have a question for you in my back bedroom in the corner I’m starting to see separation from one wall to the other deeply concerns me if the stucco or there is dry rot underneath the foundation that is causing this separation slim floor Two ceiling do you have any suggestions do I need to get in to the wall it is our third bedroom we have the original hardwood floors I wish you guys came out to California Mike in Concord California

  • @anthonyacosta9398
    @anthonyacosta9398 Před rokem

    Saw this

  • @mikejustice1196
    @mikejustice1196 Před 3 lety

    That screw in the combination square can be un-screwed and used for a scribe if you don’t have a pencil or used for an awl.

  • @fljetgator1833
    @fljetgator1833 Před 5 lety

    Music. The circle... Of FIFTHS! 😳 !! Whaaaaat 👀

  • @mikenelson4896
    @mikenelson4896 Před 5 lety +5

    Hi everyone at TOH ,Merry Christmas !!!

  • @Lando1020
    @Lando1020 Před 5 lety +3

    Confused on 10" tread with 7" riser. I see he set blade at 10" but I didn't see the tongue set at 7". Can someone clarify plz?. Thanks!

    • @richsturim133
      @richsturim133 Před 5 lety +1

      I'm just as confused. Seemed to me he was doing a 10" tread and 8" riser, right? What am I missing?

    • @johncalvo1743
      @johncalvo1743 Před 2 měsíci

      It looked like 10 by 7 1/2.

    • @alexhernandez5061
      @alexhernandez5061 Před 5 dny

      To me it looked like 8 lol

  • @Ahenkel36
    @Ahenkel36 Před 5 lety +2

    My grandfather would always snap a line from corner to corner and go off the line not the crown when doing stairs for the perfect set of stair horses... go off the edge of the wood and not the line will through them off...

  • @boris2342
    @boris2342 Před 3 lety

    I need a metric square ... Yall got anything

  • @drewbush6535
    @drewbush6535 Před 5 lety +2

    Wow I should have been a carpenter

    • @Order-in-Chaos
      @Order-in-Chaos Před 5 lety

      But you're not Blanche, you're not a carpenter...

  • @johnbaptist7476
    @johnbaptist7476 Před rokem

    👌🙏👏👏👏

  • @coleve8596
    @coleve8596 Před 5 lety +49

    Just think if like the rest of the world you measured in metric you would use one measurement ie mm. But instead we get to use sixteenths, eights, quarters, half inch, three quarters, inches, feet and so on. Try this: nine sixteenths plus seven eights plus three and a quarter inches. Then try 10mm plus 8mm plus 140mm plus 14mm. See which is the easier and quickest. I worked all my life in construction and dreaded the change from imperial to metric in the 70’s Now when I visit my family in Texas I bring all my metric tape measures etc with me. Could not go back to that system.

    • @ChrisGilliamOffGrid
      @ChrisGilliamOffGrid Před 5 lety +1

      Yep, but we're stuck with it I guess.

    • @faghihimohammad
      @faghihimohammad Před 5 lety +3

      Specially for precision works , the milimeters do a great job!

    • @jamesarjuna927
      @jamesarjuna927 Před 5 lety +2

      I spent three years in Holland designing and using only metric. Only when we had USA products did we use inches, but converted them all by 25.4. Now I use only CAD in MM and any inch stuff I convert.

    • @natalieisagirlnow
      @natalieisagirlnow Před 5 lety +2

      9/16+14/16+3+4/16=3 27/16=4 5/16 i did that in a minute with fingers as a calculator

    • @jamesarjuna927
      @jamesarjuna927 Před 5 lety

      @@natalieisagirlnow Takes no time with metric.

  • @artin13
    @artin13 Před 5 lety

    Why is a 2by4 1,5inches wide, i thought that it was 2inches by 4inches

    • @chodaidiii
      @chodaidiii Před 4 lety

      2 by 4 are the dimensions of the lumber in its rough cut stage. once it's been milled down it's 1.5 by 3.5 but we still call it 2 by 4

  • @KyokuiGhostASMR
    @KyokuiGhostASMR Před 4 lety

    Im here from google classroom lol

  • @ricardobfe
    @ricardobfe Před 5 lety

    br

  • @optimistichorizon
    @optimistichorizon Před 5 lety +23

    *WTF you can go on forever but we will leave right there? Keep going? You have no confines of network TV. This is CZcams!?!?*

    • @wantblackwolf
      @wantblackwolf Před 5 lety +5

      This Old House is a TV show the clips we see here are clips from the show. So yes they are confined to network TV. But there are videos already here on YT that you can watch that go over everything.

  • @brenovsky
    @brenovsky Před 5 lety

    Very clever but still in imperial units... the horror...

  • @herbertherbomoore415
    @herbertherbomoore415 Před 2 lety

    Why is a 2x4 called that, but it's a 1 1/2x 3 1/2?🤷🏾

    • @mikeschiavone7336
      @mikeschiavone7336 Před 10 měsíci

      Just old terminology. They used to be a true 2 x 4 back in the day. Over the years they just slimmed down the lumber hence why building codes change. A 2 x 8 is now 7 1/4 not even 7 1/2

  • @chipsammich2078
    @chipsammich2078 Před 5 lety

    1st.

  • @napoleonsmith7793
    @napoleonsmith7793 Před 5 lety +2

    3/10ths I DONT GET IT. 1:20 mark. you said 7 inch riser and you had it on a 8 inch riser. so, do you mean a 7 or 8 inch riser? YOU DID IT TWICE. you are cracking up tommy.

    • @nauthizzz
      @nauthizzz Před 5 lety

      The marks on that edge of the square are 10 marks per inch, rather than 8 or 16. So 3 marks = 3/10 of an inch. As for the stair tread, I think he was just rushing through so he didn't get things lined up as precise as he would have if he was doing it for real.

    • @johncalvo1743
      @johncalvo1743 Před 2 měsíci

      I saw it at 7 1/2.

  • @joshbarron4415
    @joshbarron4415 Před 5 lety

    First

  • @anikun
    @anikun Před 5 lety

    reupload much?

  • @TYLERCONSTRUCTION
    @TYLERCONSTRUCTION Před 4 lety

    Tommy 2020,. Much better than trump

  • @Hotonez303
    @Hotonez303 Před 7 měsíci

    the host of show keeps breaking Tommy's balls, being a little of bully, think Tommy is a push over, Tommy shows him little signs of "dude if you only knew"

  • @RamBowMike
    @RamBowMike Před 3 lety

    He did not properly mark the steps for stairs. This video should be removed...

  • @gojudude
    @gojudude Před 3 lety

    Way to commercial......Typical paid advertisers. Show me what all those lines mean on a square...show me all the other things a speed square does...we/I watch for all the secrets...don't waste our time on the BS....