Calibrate all of your shop's tape measures and scales.

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Greg Fremstad

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Measure all of your shop's tape measures against each other and against a good machinists scale. I have done this in many frame shops in my travels and found a lot of poorly calibrated tape measures. Could be why you might have size problems.
 
Plan B: You can do what I have done and ban tape measures from your shop. I probably have around 20-30 metal rulers. A tape measure will never touch a moulding of mine. I have metal rulers from 6" up to 6' including a 12" and 18" center finding rulers for finding the center of a frame when saw tooth hangers are used.
 
I like to use rulers as well.
While I do use the free schwag tape measure from LJ (from many years ago) at the design desk while with customers for general dimensions, I do precise measuring/marking with a steel ruler when needed.
I have 12", 15", 36", and 48"
I also have a wooden yardstick, which is about 1/8" off measure at the end compared to my steel rules.
Plus a couple of general tape measures for non-framing uses around the shop.
 
David Waldmann said:
I won't be getting, storing or using a 16' rule...
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Oh, c'mon Dave. Shirley they have a surplus spare at the Bureau of Weights and Measures you could pick up cheap!
 
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