Swanson makes thirteen different speed squares from seven inch to twelve inch sizes. From basic aluminum to composite plastic. Composite is great when working with vinyl siding etc. won't mark vinyl like aluminum will. One 12" model comes with an additional gauge for stair layout. A magnetic model is great for steel stud work /welding work. A fully metric square is also available. Also a folding composite model that doubles as a bevel. One even comes with a built in bubble level. All come with the "Little Blue Book" manual. I am not affiliated with Swanson... just wanted to add a little more info. Great vid as always Shannon. Thanks for sharing. Good health and long life to you and yours.

Best DIY channel on KZfaq. All your videos are clear, concise, and thoughtful. You have earned everyone of your 130 million views. Thank you so much for sharing your time and talent.

Shannon, your no-sensationalism production style, video pre-prep, delivery, and lightheartedness are a rare find on KZfaq. Thanks for sharing.

40 years ago I saw a speed square at the store .I told my wife if I had one and could learn to use it I could make some money. I purchase it and studied the book. Then I hired a framing carpenter to teach me carpentry as we built a building that I contracted to build for a client.After that we worked together for a year or two until I had learned to frame. That was 40 years ago and I have been in the remodeling business all this time thanks in large part to learning to use that tool.

Shannon, You are funny without even trying to be. A natural comedian.

Your videos are the easiest to understand of all the construction videos out there. Whenever I have a home project to do, yours are the first and last I go to. Outstanding teaching skills. Thank You.

I've used so many of your videos to build things, and this is the first time someone has successfully explained a speed square to me. Thank you so much for the quality content you put out!

If the last 5 minutes of this video taught you something than you just learned a valuable lesson. Great job Shannon.

I’ve learned so much from you, Shannon. Appreciate how you take time to explain and show all important details and don’t rush. You are genuine, humble, and encouraging. Though I don’t plan to build a shed, I watched that entire series because many of the concepts and tips could apply to other projects. Plus, there’s something calming about your teaching style. Thank you!

the best guy online! thank you sir for all you do!

Thank you, I was watching one of your videos back from 2011, which was about building a shed from A to Z, and I have learned a lot from it and I appreciate that, I'm about to start building my shed room in a week or so, thanks again

You should be a college instructor, teaching the youth, and teaching how important the trades really are. Great video as always. Thanks again.

wow, I built my whole deck with the help of your videos. I made 90 degree cuts with my square. Knowing some more would have made it a little easier

Excellent tutorial! I am more likely to put the "Speed" back into my use of this tool, thank you.

I remember the first time I saw them use a square, on This Old House, as a guide when making cuts with a circular saw. Couldn't believe I had not been doing that all along. Very useful. Thanks for the vid, great tips!

As someone who never did much construction work but am now remodeling my own house myself, I find your videos useful. :) I will use the forum next time I have a question. It is very helpful also.

That was amazing, where were you two weeks ago when I was making the ramp to the shed ha ha. So SO helpful!!!

To call me an amateur carpenter would be generous....I've only used my (inherited) speed square as a straight-edge for marking. After this video, I want to run out in the garage and make a rafter just for fun, lol. Outstanding video as always! Keep up the good work my friend.

Hi Shannon, another great and helpful video from you. I just built my deck and used my speed square a lot in cutting and marking a lumber. One of the great use I noticed is that speed square is a great guide for circular saw. Other uses you described in the video are also very handy and will save lots of time. chao

Well another great video never really knew how to use these tools. You explain these things really clear. You just earned another subscriber I love your videos I'm addicted to them.. Lol

Fantastic, thanks mate. Please show how to mark and layout stair stringers with a speed square.

You can also a speed square to make long rafter cut. You put the speed square at 90° , then mark your pitch, ex 5/12. Then rotated your square to your mark and connect your pivot and 5/12 mark and you will have your long 5/12 layer out to cut

I didn’t know that little tool can do so much.Thank you

I bought a speed square a while back(years)and it came with the little blue booklet. I run across the booklet on my bench from time to time and think I should sit down and read through it and never have. Thanks for posting this so I can skip the booklet for now and just use what you have just taught me!

Thank you for the demonstrations and all the information about the square.

An excellent teacher! Clear presentation, and interesting voice, changing intonation, good humoured. 😊

Thanks Shannon. I never knew what all those marks were for. I learned something for sure.

Shannon, I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Great videos. Greetings from San Antonio TX 🇺🇸

I have also seen using a plumb bob at the pivot point but resting the side with the degree indicators on a board to use as a level. Once the string hits the 45 degree line on your square it is level.

great video Shannon, its also a great ice scarper off plywood lol

Thank you for that explanation and thank you for your time , I would like to learn more about speed square

Awesome!Nice video of the features of a speed square ! Well done 👍🏻

Excellent tutorial, thanks

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Shannon, you rock!

Helpful as always Shannon, thank you!

Welcome back Shannon.

Great video especially for a beginner like myself ty

Thanks for the info. I appreciate your instruction.

Awesome instruction! Thanks!

Great video. Thanks Shannon.

Really enjoy your videos. I like to know you are a Canadian carpenter and much of what you do on your exterior work will hold up against cold long winter's like I experience at my home.

Great instructional. Thank you!

Thanks for share your knowledge.

Great Job! Thanks

Awesome video hands down !!!!! Thank you.

Holy head spin Shannon. I'm heading out to get my own Slower speed square. I get it.

Excellent video, really informative

speed square is back in my pouch.

Cool! Good job Shannon!

Learned something, remembered something. Nice!

Thanks for that learna few new ways to use my speed squires today I also have one that has a pivit arm with a tention screw

Nice. I would recommend some

Thanks for the videos

Awesome Video!

good video, I real enjoy watching your videos.

You are so helpful!

Good job man.

Well done👍

Great video. Salute you sir.

Great video Shannon

Excellent video. Well explained. Thx

Awesome. Thankyou

informative video thanks

I have a plastic blue Empire one and a cheap aluminum metal one like you have. I took some aycrylic hobby paint or you can use fingernail polish and colored all the numbers and markings and then wiped off the excess. Works great.

Thank You so much..

Thank you thank you 🙏

Explained very well. I have 3 speed squares 1 is a Swanson. Have the little blue Bible.

Nice safety tip at 5:32 :)

That's Amazing, after you put in your ear plugs, I didn't hear the saw either !!! lolz

Awesome!! Thank you!

Thanks

I did learn something!!!!!

Good. Thank you. God bless.

You always seem to 🤯 because I use it only for straight line. When I use it for 2 x 4 projects! I didnt not know the many uses. Tfs!

Shannon is best

Thanks for the videos, Shannon! I hope I spelled your name correctly! Very helpful!

Awesome

Thanks Shannon, I’m a new subscriber and new at building decks at 50. Love the way you teach my friend! Question about footings for a deck and adjustable brackets for the beam. Running cement tubes with 6x6 footings, can I just attach to the 6x6 or is it better to drill and set the brackets into the sonotube concrete footings. Thanks. Jay. Peterborough Ont.🇨🇦

Just ordered myself a speed square. As a hobby woodworker and tool freak I have lost count of the number of squares that I have - but less than the number of handplanes.

My back pocket tool.

Thanks for another good video. Happy Birthday America!

Thanks mate great info hope to see more

👍show de bola!

If I ever have to make a rafter, something's gone terribly wrong. On the other hand, if I ever have to build a rafter, now I'll know how. 🔨📐😃

Shannon, happy fourth, happy summer. I will want to see the rafter video. Do you do any work with timber framing especially rough green lumber where you cheat using some quicker tools including the speed square?

It's also a back scratcher, a board gapper and sometimes a pry bar.

I use my speed square almost every day. I'm not doing any framing these days and I don't see any roof framing in my near or distant future, but I like learning things about the speed square. It's just more fun if you get to use what you learn Now stair stringers are something I mess up with great regularity, any help from the speed square there or is that carpenters square domain? I do have the 12in speed square as well.

Another speed square use is to prop up 2x4 for better camera angle for a KZfaq show

Speed squares are awesome. Mine likes to stab my belly when it's in my belt.

🇨🇦Great video as usual! Question when you did your last demo, you were measuring the mock up roof rafter angle. It came up as 5 what does that 5 represent? Pitch? Can you explain please.🇨🇦

They look like speed triangles to me. :D

Great video, can't wait for the rafter ones as I'd like to make my own garage and maybe get the courage to build my own cabin.

Hi Shannon.. i understand that you dont work in Mississauga, but by any chance, do you have any reference to someone who can make a sunroom in backyard in Mississauga, Canada.

At 14:13 of the video could you just align the speed square with the plumb line to make the speed square level? Or is that not accurate enough? Thanks for the video.

can also be used as a nail set....smile

So how do you decide what pitch you make on a roof when you are doing a new start. I see that the run and overhang can change, and I hear the purpose of the roof and type of materials that you have to work from would change the pitch. Perhaps you can suggest a roof overview from on-line medium to memorize a few different roof types, but between simple dimensional and for making buildings from raw or scratch. I just started watching your shed series with the roofing episode and these questions popped-up. I got attacked again in the dreams this morning but it seemed to start off the youtube yesterday off the Chico crypto notification with the Chinese front image and then within the content again off the Chinese police image last evening. Almost every day I am here on this contract at Parexel Baltimore Maryland including something projecting off of Larry(LES) today trying to steal my financial information, but (3) others in this dorm B trying to steal from me and projecting-in my thoughts at least (3) from other dorms projecting in and (3) staff this morning near wakeup all projecting-in with ill intent. Psy and dream warfare which when attached to someone being attacked and killed in the dream you struggle to wake-up and I am just not myself. Year after year of this foreign Infiltration hidden destruction murder tactics and no one to know it is occurring just persons with declining functionality while all these foreign social types keep pushing their dumbed-down agenda and all the True People and those of us struggling to be true being killed both in functional ability but in my case many times assaulted and poisoned by different factions. That's why the partially dumb questions that I would otherwise be more able to research myself. I rely more on audio-visual because when I am trying to do other things then I can either watch or just listen. But if it's in print on the internet that is also good so I can expose myself to other than current conventions toxic housing, but given the physical damage and slower thinking and less of my own visualization I need to do modified techniques for Real Joinery to expedite the work load while still producing something that resembles our Ancestors Abilities and not being forced to be dependent on buying everything. I need insight regarding this whole financial crisis fabrication if you have someone who can suggest a low budget portfolio for a poor layman including metals and krypto-currency both as stocks and tokens to ride out this reset. We are paid on this usbank debit card but I wasn't able to get access to anything on the 23rd before coming in-house and I see on the internet two plus months of problems regarding this bank in this current crisis that like unemployment their is no oversight body to step in and squeeze them to get our money. As it stands now I will be doing this contract getting attacked and no hope of getting paid despite this company has been paid before March potentially. I normally don't reveal when on contract but I definitely felt something under the Larry(Les) presence a little earlier while looking at my account to try to pay for the post office box. My hope is to taylor everything for building from scratch and raw like a real man. I have gotten shit the entire time since back in the 90's for trying to find a true carpenter/joiner/stone worker/mason/ earth worker who can go to any land, feel the land and know how to build from scratch and raw. That is Real to me but in the short term to do anything for myself even under conventions of the social order is some minimal purpose and sense of accomplishment. To last on jobs I was being attacked and potted-out and forced to try to sell their pot just to have that shit job and no one in the market liked all the way back liked me asking to do Real Carpentry. I don't feel there is any Real America(obviously Pre-America) and I have been abducted into a bad multi-level dream life where it is nothing but different social types just chasing fake money getting less self sufficient by the day dumber and more lazy where to muster proper motivation is a chore more controlled by different richass groups.

Somehow I knew you were a speed square guy.

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Why not put the lip of square in back of board when cutting. Wouldn’t that align better and be more stable?