Converted the shop today!

[Mel Fulks]

There was another system. Few years back one of the Scandinavian countries had an odd ball inch. That probably affected
the feet too! Can't find any info now. Never knew anything about it until I bought a 3 inch folding ivory rule. I researched
it then simply because it was too beautifully made to be a mistake.

[Dick Mahany]

I typically used to use decimal inches however have also switched over to metric and enjoy it. One can easily split the 1mm markings in half by eye which produces measurements to ~0.020" or just over 1/64th inches. I really couldn't stand all of those traditional fractional divisions on my tapes and scales. It is still a little difficult to process the traditional sheet of plywood in my head in mm after all of these years of imperial thinking, but I am getting more comfortable with metric woodworking with each new project.

One thing that I'm not going to convert to metric is divisions of pizzas or apple pies............fractions are still fine there