The one I had bought for me from Lee Valley has a sort of toggle button which you can push flat to lock the bevel. This means that there is no wing-nut to manipulate or get in the way so it can be used with either surface down.
For a description, they are generally a piece of wood but sometimes plastic or even metal around 6 inches long and about an inch thick and a little more than that wide. There is a slot in one end extending nearly half the length of the stick dividing the one inch thickness. The end it starts from is rounded off and there is a bolt through a hole and usually a wing nut on the end of the bolt so that when you tighten down the bolt it squeezes the split closed. This bolt fits through a length of metal usually highly polished metal with a slot in it so it can slide up and down and swing around in the end of the slot. This blade usually is round at one end and cut off at a 45 degree angle at the other end. You can then line up the blade and the body along the arms of an angle then tighten up the wing-nut to hold that angle then remove the sliding t bevel and reproduce that angle on your stock or to set up a miter saw or miter gauge so the angle can be reproduced when you cut. The one I have has a toggle clamp rather than a -nut so you can get into difficult places and just press the toggle down to lock it into place. You can fold the blade into the body by sliding the blade along the slot such that the bevel end of the blade slides into the slot and only about half of the other end of the blade remains protruding from the end of the body. You have probably seen one before, just didn't know what it was. Hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Hodges To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Sliding bevel square. Dan, I went to Loews and asked for a sliding bevel square and they don't know what I'm talking about. Are you referring to a speed square? What does a sliding bevel square look like? Can you describe it? Thanks, Tom On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Dan Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott, > > A sliding bevel allows you to wrap or bend the square into or around a > corner. Then you can take it to a saw and line up the cut, you don't > actually have to know the angle. > > I have one that has a fin in the middle that bisects the angle so that if > you are trying to mitre a corner cut, you line up one leg of the square > with the fence of the saw, and the blade of the saw with the fin on the > square. Works pretty well. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu> > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.0/1507 - Release Date: 6/18/2008 7:09 AM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
