It’s often relegated to the back of the toolbox, but the 7″ combination square has loads of uses around the old house.
A combination square is the kind of tool most people own because they needed it once, or thought they should get one, but that otherwise sits in the toolbox (for a long time) until a need comes up. But I’m not most people—and I’ve found so many uses for this indispensable and inexpensive little tool that it’s earned promotion from the toolbox to my tool belt.
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