A rafter square, also called a speed square, is a versatile triangular carpenter's tool for quickly marking angles like 90° and 45°, finding roof pitches (common, hip, and valley) using its built-in scales for rise/run, and making precise cuts for rafters, as well as layout for doors, windows, and other carpentry projects. Key features include a base, a protractor edge for angles, a pivot point, and markings for common rafter dimensions and angles, allowing carpenters to efficiently mark cuts li
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Learning how to use a speed square can be confusing especially if you didn’t go to carpentry school or learn under someone. It took me quite a while to learn the basic functions of it and I still don’t know many of the functions (specifically the hip/rafter numbers since I don’t build roofs). You should learn how to mark and scribe basic angles with the speed square though, it is the one function that has saved me so much time over the years. How did I learn it? I just walked up to a random fram
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