A piece of history
I don't know which blog to put this in but it's historical so... I found this framing square in the condo I was working on, and the owner gifted it to me. It had a lot of dirt and some surface rust, and was hard to read but I hit it lightly with some fine sandpaper to get the rust off. It is steel and quite heavy. It's pretty interesting. I know a bit about using this type of square for roofing and stairs, but there are a lot of things on here. It says copyright 1912. The construction is interesting, made in two pieces and put together in what looks like a dovetail joint. I don't often see a framing square with 128ths of an inch. There's also a scale on it I can't identify. My wife suggested barleycorns, though I'm pretty sure she wasn't serious... The manufacturer stamped on there, "Southington Hardware" was DBA that name from 1908 until they went out of business in the 1960s. Here's a blog post about it: Vanished Tool Makers: ...