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You’ve no doubt heard the carpentry proverb “Measure twice, cut once” and may even have made it a mantra for your own projects. But unless you know how to use a tape measure and correctly ...

When your tape measure is in use, be conscious of how you're extending and retracting the blade. Aggressively yanking out the blade or letting it snap back quickly may help save fractions of a ...

I have a tape measure on my desk that has 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4 and 7/8 fractions right above each line. You may want to invest in this tool. Some tape measures have markings that divide ...

The high-contrast white color of the blade makes digits and fractions clearly stand out. But what differentiates all FastCap tape measures from the competition—and makes them so useful—is that ...

Working with measuring tapes in inches and feet can often require mental math, and even if fractions are printed on the scale, they're nearly impossible to read anyway. Metric tape measures come ...

You've no doubt encountered a number of measuring tools in your lifetime. Common tools used for measuring range from the familiar 12-inch wooden ruler that we used in grade school to precision ...