Folding Saddle Square

Blue Spruce Toolworks introduces the Folding Saddle Squares…tools designed for flawless joinery layout. Transferring a layout line around a corner with traditional layout tools calls for patience, dexterity, keen eyesight and…let's face it…luck. Even if you're off just half the width of your pencil lead, by the time you carry the layout all the way through and make your cuts, that tiny error could balloon into a poor-fitting joint. Think of the Folding Saddle Squares as straightedges that happen to have a hinge right in the middle…because that's exactly how we make them. The edges are milled after final assembly. That's right. After the parts are machined, anodized, laser engraved and fully assembled, they head back out to the machine shop where both edges get one more pass on the CNC mill, cutting both halves perfectly in plane with each other. They will stay in plane, too, because the hinge is tensioned to eliminate lateral play while still allowing silky smooth angle adjustment.