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How do you start your cut square? Bench hook worked well with no miter box. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by pageflight@lemmy.world to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

See those yellow-plastic roofer's squares? the triangular ones?

https://www.stanleytools.com/products/hand-tools/measure-and-layout-tools/squares

Those things.

They line-up cuts beautifully.

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[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I do have one of those! It works great with my rip saw, but I didn't see a way to use it with my back saw because of the back, whereas the bench hook fits under there more easily. Maybe I'm just overlooking the way to set it up.