The Crucible Bench Square is a handy, lightweight and accurate tool for many woodworking operations. It is based on an 18th-century square in A.J. Roubo's masterpiece l'Art du menuisier, but uses modern technology to ensure it is accurate and stays that way.
The Crucible Bench Square is a handy, lightweight and accurate tool for many woodworking operations. It is based on an 18th-century square in A.J. Roubo's masterpiece l'Art du menuisier, but uses modern technology to ensure it is accurate and stays that way.
It is great for checking a board's edge when planing joints for a panel glue-up, the square end is nice for marking crosscuts with a pencil or knife, and the built-in angles can be used to check sawn miters and set the tilt of your table saw blade.
The originals were made from one piece of walnut, so they were fragile and tended to go out of square because of wood movement. This version has a blade of 1/4" Baltic birch plywood that is laser cut for accuracy, immune to wood movement and has no short grain. It is joined to a maple stock machined for a perfect fit, and after assembly the square is trued up on machinery so the 45° and 90° are spot on. It is supplied unfinished, like most wooden bench tools, and has a hang hole. Made in the USA.
Facts:
Measures 4" × 9"
Weighs less than 3 oz
Baltic birch blade, maple stock
90° and 45° angles
Hang hole