Ever checked your sliding bevel for parallel?
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In the process of making Paul’s bench stool, I clearly needed to use my sliding bevel in earnest. For most odd angles which are usually a one-off, I’ve used my Starrett.
My sliding bevel is a 30-year old, but a ‘no-name’ of some kind.
It immediately struck me that, using carefully dimensioned timber, and with the bevel set, the inside and outside angles were not quite the same.
So, I find both the metal slide and the wooden body were not in fact parallel. The former inconsequentially but the body by over 1mm along its length. Neither was one edge square to the face.
Worth checking, and correcting! Only took 5 mins and all is now spot on.
I know we all know that most modern tools are poor, but I could have easily overlooked the parallel issue, and had some intriguing alignment issues!