I don't use my Sliding Mitre saw, as I can do almost everything on my Tablesaw/ Bandsaw, so I gave it to my eldest son. I recently updated my crosscut sled and fitted a flipstop with a cursor and measure scale almost identical to yours. My next mods will be a box joint jig to the crosscut sled and adjustable zero clearance inserts for the saw blade, as I regularly use an 8"" Freud Dado set, (American Cabinet Saw).

i want to make them,how?

Very clever. I've never seen one of these before.

Another tool for the toolkit. Thanks for the different way of creating an angle in the shop. I don't know when I would need an angle that accurate but it's good to know how it can be done relatively easily.

Hooray for Steve Maskery. Gratitude to Mr. Thales. Here is a demonstration of the marriage of complication with simplicity. Result? Happiness with the bonus of square angles. I have a suspicion that you are really a maths teacher disguised as a carpenter. Thank you Steve

Never thought of using a long compass backwards - I've only used it for drawing a segment of known large radius. I like it

That's a nice drill press. Or pillar drill, I guess you Brits call it, which is a better name, in my opinion.

Thank you. You used the stick differently than a video that I watched a while ago. Youve added to the uses of the stick. The various names have aalways been interesting to me. I traveled as a service engineer for 10years(best job I ever had actually). When I needed a zip tie I would walk up to their parts counter and go down a list of names. Zip tie, tie wrap, tie strap and so on. It was the same when asking someone what type of soda they wanted when I volunteered to buy. Another list of names such as soda, pop, soda pop, or my favorite from my home in the south of the USA was a phrase. Do you want a COKE? The answer would be yes. Ok, what kind? Then you were told the flavor as in Sprite or Rootbeer. Almost everything carbonated is a COKE. Ask a black man what is your favorite flavor of Coolaid? It will almost always be "red". Love it! Thanks for your work.

I do love the usage for the sine bar. I'm gonna bookmark this, as Im sure I will forget by the time I need to apply what I have learned. Thanks, I really enjoyed this presentation.

Could you have not made two five inch pieces and put end to end match the ten inch against those two end to end. With sensitivity of fingertips or feeler gages or a block and feeler gauges, I bet you could have got it to almost within four thou'. A nice job though, and perfectly accurate enough. Not used a sine bar since my engineering days, forty years ago, along with wringing gauge blocks.

A more simple idea that doesn't need to make accurate spacers: take a board of MDF with a straight edge. Mark two points 10 or 20 inches apart on that edge. Draw a perpendicular line on one of the points with an acurate square. Calculate the sin of the angle you want in a calculator and multiply it by 10 or 20 depending on the number of inches those points are separated and mark that distance on the perpendicular line. Draw a line between the other point on the edge and this point in the perpendicular line. Now you have a right triangle that has the angle you want on the edge of the board. Transfer this angle to a speed square, and now you can transfer that angle to your project.

you can also make a sine protractor. just make sonethig like a folding ruler, (one hinge and screw for locking) non hinged side has two half rounds that when together are exactly 1" and as here 10" from hinge center to center of the half rounds, if material of the halves stick up say 1/4" and the two half rounds share the same center, this means you get any sine by just using calipers directly across the ends sticking out, just remove that 1" to get correct sine measurement.

I am a retired math teacher. I have just watched three of your videos, I wish I had seen these when I was teaching as practical examples for my classes.

How on Earth I've never heard about this before?! It's brilliant! Thank You so much for sharing!

...making a precisely made spacer..... i cant make THAT part, so any vid that claims that anyone can make this simple device - as long as you have 10's of thousands of dollars of equipment & a workshop - is lying.... shameful....

I eas never very good at trigonometry, but my dad was. Old harry simpkins always has cake on a Tuesday. That's o over h = sine, a over h = cosine , o over a = tangent. Opposite, Adjacent, Hypotoneuse. But how you use them still mystifies me. Cheers!

nice thoughts on your bench project.

What a great video, I’m making one of these today! Too man

Fascinating 👏 I am so happy when the KZbin algorithm gets things right once in a while and suggests videos that I actually enjoy and learn from :)

I am utterly awe-struck! What an elegant and beautiful solution. Better yet, it's simple enough that even I can reproduce it. Many, many thanks sir!

I just discovered your channel. It is fantastic! You are a great teacher and your tips are spot on! I'm a subscriber and look forward to more great videos! Thanks.

This seems like an extremely tedious thing to set up. You need all your bits of wood of varying length. they also need to be of precise measurements. what i would do is place a nut in a piece of wood. and put a bolt in it. Then use the bolt to get your different heights. i would also make it so that you can lock the angle.

I like what I heard you say during the video for a new name for this tool. A “fiddle stick” because you have to do a bit a fiddling to layout your ticks

great!!!!!!

These tips are so amazingly simple to use!

Multiplying by ten is easy - so i work in inches - LOL

Hi Steve, just come across your demos. How do you compensate for stone wear?

11.15.24 I have never heard of this. I love to learn about great ways to measure and create precision. Thanks!!

From the Southern U.S. We always called this a story stick...it tells the story of the piece.

Spall Stick. Spalling. Thank you. Pacific coast, USA.

"'Always found woodworking full of shits and giggles." -anon.

This is the second video I've watched. Great stuff, I've subscribed and liked! Thanks for the great tips and ideas!!!

Never sorry I subscribed some time ago. Another masterpiecet. I,ve build myself a similar fence but welded it. Saved for further reference regarding the accessories to the fence.

Absolute genius?

Well. That's pretty amazing. Been a carpenter/woodworker for a long time. Never heard of this. Need to make a few.

Very good.

I was the one in class not writing on the table. In my day, trigonometry was its own subject in school. I think it’s given cursory mention in modern curricular. Anyway, never heard of a sine bar. That is amazing! When I needed an angle I just used the SOHCAHTOA trig formulas or good ole Law Of Cosines with a ruler and square. Unfortunately I lack your excellent craftsmanship.

Awesome!

Drilling the holes against a fence would have guaranteed parallel between the edge and the holes. No need to add a process.

Interesting Steve, piqued my interest in making one, but I cannot see how the accuracy could be good enough for precision. How thick is a line, how good is a steel rule, one's eyesight, the available light etc. So many variables ! Cheers mate.

Multiplying by ten is easy - so that’s why I’m using inches?

I have a metal one of these hanging in my workshop - about a foot long. It looks commercially made though there's no maker's mark on it. Used to belong to my cabinet-maker father who passed away 30 years ago. I thought I was being quite clever using it to establish right angles. How marvellous to discover that was always its actual purpose in the first place. One of his best bits of advice - measure for the record, but gauge for the job. There are still a dozen sticks hanging on that wall - basically just pieces of old-fashioned plasterers' lattings (lathings?) with pencil marks and notches on them. Made for each job, but never discarded. He had a name for them - memory sticks or something like that. Anyone? I'm 80 myself now and can't remember. One has just a series of holes drilled along it - took me a while to guess it's almost certainly a makeshift compass. He never used other than feet and inches in woodwork, and I never have or will. Increasingly academic these days..

What does MFT stand for

My only complaint is that when you used your google, it activated mine and paused the video. 😂 Very informative video. Thank you.

Great video, enjoyed it very much. I made my woodworking sine bar some thirty years ago and also maple and also 10 inches between anvil centres but in order to ensure accurate drilling of the two holes I made a jig. The jig was made on my milling machine, it has a 90 Deg angle to locate the true common centre line and the holes in the jig are exactly at 10 inches. I then use transfer punches to mark my piece of maple. It's repeatable and quick once you've got the jig. The jig is one inch thick to ensure the transfer punches are perpendicular to the workpiece.

It’s hard to imagine just how unnecessary this hunk of wood is

What is the purpose and need for this tool?

Thanks for this idea, is it ok if i build one myself? I wont build it unless you say so.

Had to pause the video at 7:06 to wait for my Google to stop talking!

For me is so fun to listen someone tells that multiply by 10 makes the things easier while make all the measurement in inches. Wasn't really easier to use metric system?