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Spent $400 on a digital angle gauge for my miter saw
Thought it was a waste until it saved a whole day on a tricky built-in. Anyone have a cheaper tool that gets close?
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angela_allen5323d ago
Yeah, hugo_jones nailed it with that rule.
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hugo_jones24d ago
My old boss had a saying about that. He called it the "hundred dollar hour rule". If a tool saves you more than an hour of messing around on a job that pays a hundred bucks, it's paid for itself. Your gauge just saved eight of those hours. I used a cheap magnetic one from Harbor Freight for years, around twenty bucks. It worked fine for basic stuff, but for complex angles on built-ins or crown molding, the digital one is just in another league. The time you spend double checking and tweaking a cheap tool adds up fast on those tricky cuts.
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michael_patel21d ago
A buddy of mine had the same experience, @hugo_jones. He was doing a kitchen with some weird angled ceilings and spent two days fighting a cheap angle finder that just wouldn't lock in properly. Ended up borrowing my digital one and finished the whole crown molding run in about four hours. He was so mad about the time he'd wasted he went out and bought his own that same weekend. That hundred dollar hour rule really hits home when you see someone lose a whole day to a twenty dollar tool.
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