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ing may be laid out in eighths. The finer marking on 

 the inside is protected by keeping the rule folded 

 together when not in use. The coarser marking out- 

 side does not suffer so much from wear. Figure 5 . 

 shows a 12-inch rule with a slide caliper jaw. 



In using a two-foot rule to lay off work the forward 

 end should contain the small figures so that the work- 

 man is counting back on the rule but forward on the 



Figure 6. Small Pocket Oilstone. Shop oilstone in a box, 100-foot 

 measuring tapeline marked in inches, feet and rods. 



work, and he has the end of the rule to scribe from. In 

 laying off a 16-foot pole the stick is first marked with 

 a knife point, or sharp scratchawl, and try square to 

 square one end. The work is then laid off from left 

 to right, starting from the left hand edge of the 

 square mark or first mark. The two-foot rule is laid 

 flat on top of the piece of wood. At the front end of 

 the rule the wood is marked with a sharp scratchawl 

 or the point of a knife blade by pressing the point 

 against the end of the rule at the time of marking. In 

 moving the rule forward the left end is placed exactly 

 over the left edge of the mark, so the new measurement 



