If you're looking to speed up your projects, you can use these clever tricks to make carpentry measuring faster and better.

To help steady the pencil, this hack helps by creating a small notch at the end of the ruler in the combo square. Then, the pencil and square glide smoothly together down the wood as you draw a ...

What you need: ruler, protractor, pencil and paper. Use these to construct a triangle when you know the length of 1 side and the 2 angles at each end of it. In this case use the length 8 cm ...

Hold your paper with the edge you want to cut at the bottom If you want to draw cut lines with a pencil and ruler, do that now. Otherwise just keep an idea of the lines in your mind. Why not try ...