gotta hand it to ya

Great !!

Happy New Year David. All the best to you and your closest ones. Health and Happiness !!

Serge

-- Learn from yesterday, work today and enjoy success tomorrow. -- http://atelierdubricoleur.wordpress.com

Well, paint my hand red and call it a Woodpecker! I was today years old when I learned that!

-- People say I hammer like lightning. It's not that I'm fast -- it's that I never hit the same place twice!

best to you both in this 20-20 vision new year.

guess i’m older don

learned it last year
just before midnight

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

Best of the new year to you David. I don’t use mine for angles so much but for rough measurements I can be pretty close using my 9 1/2” span from thumb to pinky. I use that a lot.
Thanks for the “finger tip”. :-)

-- Paul M ..............the early bird may get the worm but it’s the second mouse that gets the cheese! http://thecanadianschooloffrenchmarquetry.com/

Yup, gotta hand it to yah, that’s a good one… (-:

But I am so dang fussy I gotta measure every angle… (-:

Happy New Year to yah…

-- Jim, Anchorage Alaska

well paul
maybe i’m just getting old
all i can stretch is 8 1/2”
on a warm day

i agree jim

i don’t like cutting boards
to short
from the wrong end either

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

Let’s see photos of your mitered corners. LOL

-- Phil Allin - There are mountain climbers and people who talk about climbing mountains. The climbers have "selfies" at the summit!

sorry phil
you’ll have to check with my hairdresser
about that

only she knows for sure

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

Miters on his head probably look like this- :D

-- Steven.......Random Orbital Nailer

David,

Man, I must be dense or drank too much last night.. BUT, I cannot see 90° between thumb & little finger… tip to tip?
I think I can see 30° between little finger & ring finger…

When I open rt.hand, I measure 8-5/8” from tip of little finger to tip of thumb…

I think I need a picture / diagram… :(

How do input the degree mark? Push ALT + a number? What is the Number? Seems like Years ago I saw this…
I found it Here.

Happy New Year!

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: https://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/index.php?media/albums/users/joe-lyddon.1389/

you are pretty close steve

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

joe
lets start with dense as the operating principal
something we can all understand

this pic is what the angle is about

paul was not talking about the angle
but about his rule of hand measuring tip to tip
straight across his hand
two different things

aside from all that

how much did you have to drink last night

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

Happy New Year David. Good to see you out and about.

My little paw measures 9 1/4” Lil’ finger to thumb. But the Lil’ finger Thumb angle is off quite a bit; 45°. I figured out a correction factor; cube my height in feet, divide that product by 3, then subtract 10 and it will give the correction to 90° in degrees ;-)

-- Bob in WW ~ "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

now we’re getting down to it bob

easier than getting out all those expensive tools
we can’t find anymore

just to figure out if our hand
is the right size to do any work at all

so long as we continue to fix the things we make
we good to go

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

My splayed hand is about 110° or so. I can hit 30°, 45°, 60° and 90° by eye tighter than with my splayed hand. My finger angles vary quite a bit.

Measuring 30° is 1:2, 45° is 1:1, and 60° is 2:1 (remember chief SOHCAHTOA). Simple ratios, easy to measure, easy to remember, perfectly accurate.

Now for a ‘rule of thumb’: One inch was defined as the width of the king’s thumb and to this day the average male thumb is almost exactly 1” at its widest point.

On a tangential note, I play a little game where I set the fence by eye and then measure to see where it actually lands just to see how close I can get. For under 1” I can usually eyeball to 1/16” or less. You?

M

-- The hump with the stump and the pump!