Stainless Steel Woodworking Squares - 2616SS and 1812SS
Woodpeckers 1812SS and 2616SS Stainless Steel Precision Squares feature a thin, stainless steel central core, machined to a tolerance of ±.0085°. Scales are laser-engraved along all edges. They're held to a tolerance of ±.004" total stack-up error. On top of this impressive accuracy, anodized aluminum cheeks are pin located and secured to the central core to give you a wide, firm base for the square. There's a shoulder formed by the cheeks of the beam that keeps the square flat on your work. The blade features scribing guides laser-cut on 1/16" centers. Altogether these features create one of the finest layout tools you'll ever use. If you build furniture and cabinets, you simply cannot find better large layout tools, whether you're working for a living or enjoying the hobby.
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The heart of the design is a one-piece core. "Square" isn’t determined by pins, rivets, screws or spot-welds like it is in virtually every other square on the market. It’s determined by our state-of-the-art CNC milling centers. The core is machined square by a computer and verified square by our computer-controlled optical inspection system (capable of measuring angularity to 5 decimal places).
Like our aluminum squares, the cheeks added to the central core are narrower, forming a shoulder that keeps your square registered to your stock even when you let go. You’ll love using our new stainless-steel squares for lay out work. The thin blade puts the scale right next to your stock, reducing parallax error. When you need a mark parallel with an edge, just drop a pencil into the correct scribing guide and slide the square along the edge of your stock. The scribing guides are shaped to accommodate almost any marking tool you favor, not just mechanical pencils.
The wide base of the squares provides a solid footing when you're checking cabinet components for square. Like our full line of Precision Squares, we stand behind these squares for the life of the tool. We guarantee them to be ±.0085° or better. To put that in perspective, on the 1812SS, the maximum error you could find at the far end of the square would be less than half the thickness of a human hair. If you ever find it outside that tolerance, we’ll fix it or replace it.
Metric, too! There are 450mm and 600mm versions of the squares with scribing guides on 1mm centers. Both inch and metric squares are available individually or as a set. The sets include a MDF case to store and protect your squares. The individual squares are available with or without the MDF case.
For all their wonderful features these squares present some manufacturing challenges. They're actually quite difficult to make. We're no longer manufacturing them on a continuous basis, but will occasionally make a batch. So, here's the deal. We're offering a limited drop and will accept orders until August 25, 2025. Once that date passes, we'll build just enough to fill the orders. Order yours, today!
| Country of Manufacture | United States |
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- Blade Thickness: .062"
- Blade Width: 1812SS 2" / 2616SS 2-1/4"
- Cheek Thickness with Blade: .562"
- Cheek Length: 1812SS 11" / 2616SS 15"
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Q: What is the difference between the Aluminum and Stainless Steel squares besides material?
A: The biggest difference besides the material the squares are made out of is the marking holes that are milled into the stainless steel squares that are not milled in the aluminum versions. These holes allow for marking layout lines for projects. The Stainless Steel Square blade is approximately 1/16” in thickness where the Aluminum blade is approximately ⅛”. The thinner blade and the marking holes along the blade of the Stainless Steel Square allows for it to be better used for lay out lines. The thicker blade of the Aluminum Square is better suited for making sure work pieces are perpendicular to each other.
Q: How accurate are your squares compared to others on the market?
A: Our squares are milled and inspected to be within tolerances of .001” per foot or .0085°.
