[Fishtalk]

So my father was a carpenter and even though I am a girl, I can wield a hammer.

We all had our own metal tape thing as carpenters must measure everything.

Anyway my brother cut off the top of a finger on that thing., cause once you stretch it out, get your damn digits out of the way before you allow it to snap close.

Thank me very much.

As an aside, my father used to draw lines but putting his pencil against the very short side of one of those rulers that bend over and over. He’d open a couple of the “arms” put his pencil against the short end and, boom, he move that ruler down the sheetrock drawing a perfectly straight line from the pencil.

It was amazing.

[spokeshave]

one of those rulers that bend over and over.

Antique carpenters rule (no pun intended)

[patriotspride]

thanks for that memory on the folding measure stick...

Haven’t heard that referenced in a long time, and remember my dad using one and teaching me how to measure with it.

[goodnesswins]

Ha...My Dad built our house with one of those folding rulers, in the mid 1950s...