I have a couple of the Lee Valley right to left 12 footers. They match each other, my steel rules and my squares. Early on I worked through getting accurate measuring tools for the shop and let no sub-optimal interlopers in, regardless of how cute they are, fluorescent green they are, tricked out auto locking they are, etc. KIIS. I keep one tape at the bench and one at the tablesaw/router table and be sure to put them back in their little spot instead of setting them down on the bench to get buried in kruft. Its so much easier just to reach for one where it is suppoed to be than to wonder where I put it ;-)