Recently Woodpeckers released the protractor for the t-square as a onetime tool. This month, they released the same type of protractor but then for the rulers. I decided to buy one of those, hoping it could fulfill the following:
- Repeatable angles
- Easy measuring the length of an angled corner from the start of the wood till point X
To start with the good things, it came well packaged and fits like a charm on my existing rulers. There is a slight height difference between the ruler and the part of the ruler that is connected to the protractor, but that is not really important. Just as Woodpeckers claimed, the protractor arrived calibrated in exactly 90 degrees. Changing the angle is easy by loosening the 2 knots on the back. Woodpeckers made it so that when flipping the protractor, the angle stays the same.
As far as the cons go, I wasn't able to make repeatable angles. For me it was very difficult to place the indicator exactly on the line. Even a hair of, results in a different angle. In the end, I ended up sawing some pieces of wood using my TSO MTR that has the option to pin different angles. Using those pieces of wood, I set the right angle for the protractor, but this beats the purpose of the protractor.
All in all, it is not what I hoped it would be.
