Quote Originally Posted by Alan Wright View Post
Stanley,

I really appreciated reading your original post. Not sure why some take such umbrage to some of your points. Seems like you are saying "don't assume your tools are square". If they aren't, I'm just making my goal of cutting and joining truly square pieces of wood more difficult. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do, becuase I don't want to spend the big bucks on the precision tools (i'm a hobbyist), but I am definately listening to you, and agree with your principal points. Gotta think on it some more...

THANKS!

Alan
Nobody is taking umbrage at the notion of square squares.

It's just how square do they need to be? If in the classic test of a square used in woodworking - knife a line, flip square, knife another line very close to the first one, no real divergence can be detected by eye then the square is plenty square enough, especially after Wilbur's post informing us how sensitive our sight really is.