Layout, Machine Setup, and Assembly ChecksThese Squares Have You Covered

Woodpeckers Stainless Steel Precision Woodworking Squares feature the same one-piece precision-machined central core found in all of our fixed blade squares. Two cheeks are joined to the base leg of the square to form the beam. This approach creates a square we can confidently guarantee to be within .0085°or betterfor the life of the tool. The laser-engraved scales along the blade are held to a tolerance of .004" total stack-up error. On top of that impressive accuracy, there's a shoulder formed by the cheeks of the beam that keeps the square flat on your work and laser-accurate scribing guides on 1/16" centers. Altogether these features create the finest woodworking squares on the market.

The one-piece central core defines a Woodpeckers square. 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, which is capable of measuring angularity to 6 decimal places. The 1/16" thick stainless steel core receives heat treating and tempering after machining. And then they get a trip to the finishing department where a series of processes results in a satin, non-glare surface that contrasts nicely with the laser-engraved scales.

Like Woodpeckers 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 1282SS, 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, Woodpeckers will fix it or replace it.

You can get either the 1282SS or 642SS separately, or save some money buying both as a set. Each square comes with a wall-mountable Rack-It to keep your square in plain sight and ready to go to work. Like all Woodpeckers tools, the 642SS and 1282SS Precision Squares are precisely machined and carefully inspected in its Strongsville, Ohio facility just south of Cleveland.