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Ken Fitzgerald
05-20-2015, 8:09 PM
For quite a while I have wanted something to measure inside measurements.

We bought new windows and they are being installed. I am doing the interior trim on the windows. In preparation to manufacture and install new window jambs, I ordered a Lufkin red end folding 6' carpenter's rule with 7" sliding extension.

It arrived today. I like it!
Curt Stivison
05-20-2015, 8:19 PM
We all need excuses to buy new tools.
Curt
Von Bickley
05-20-2015, 8:20 PM
Love mine......
Jim Matthews
05-20-2015, 9:26 PM
The great industrial designs are simple.
Good choice.
John A langley
05-20-2015, 9:57 PM
Ken What took you so long , I love my
Mike Cutler
05-21-2015, 12:11 PM
Tage Frid is looking down smiling. ;)
Jim German
05-21-2015, 12:21 PM
Those are great until your kids break them! Course to be fair I broke my dad's when I was young.
Mike Ontko
05-21-2015, 12:55 PM
Those are great until your kids break them! Course to be fair I broke my dad's when I was young.

Karma happens :)
Mike Cogswell
05-21-2015, 2:24 PM
We all need excuses to buy new tools.
Curt

"Every good project needs a new tool." Official motto (and policy) of my house since I got married in 1969. LOML is at the point where she will ask what the new tool is at the start of any project.

it broke my heart when I broke my father's folding rule. He died young back in 1968, but he taught me a lot about caring for tools and how to use them when I was young. I bought another folding ruler, and it's never far from hand in my shop, but it isn't my dad's.
Ken Fitzgerald
05-21-2015, 8:12 PM
Today...while in Spokane for a hearing tuneup on my cochlear implant.....I stopped by Woodcraft with my wife and came out with a low angle block plane.......new project to start soon.
Mike Heidrick
05-21-2015, 9:08 PM
That's a plane even I love Ken. Congrats to her!!
Chuck Hart
05-21-2015, 10:55 PM
Did you come back with your wife or did you trade her for the plane? That's what it seemed when you wrote it. I went in with the wife and came out with a plane.

Chuck
Ken Fitzgerald
05-21-2015, 11:04 PM
No....I brought her out with me. She's the one who suggested if I needed a tool to get it since we were in Spokane for the day.
lowell holmes
05-21-2015, 11:11 PM
I have two folding rules. One is an 8 footer, the other is a broken 6 footer, so I made a folding yard stick out of it.

If you break one, don't throw it away.