jwj Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 I've been working on plans for my first set neck guitar and was planning on building a neck jig. As I was thinking about building it I pulled out my neice's 7th grade protractor and found it difficult to use as the axis was about an inch from the bottom or the protractor. it is great for measuring 2 dimensional angles on paper, but I found it difficult to use on pieces of wood. can anyone suggest a better tool for measuring small angles??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nollock Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 To be honest i never meaure angles, i always work out the side measurments. So a 13 degree angle is roughly a triangle 9 x 2. Measure 9 across, 2 down with a square, mark it and draw a line through. chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egdeltar Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Do a search...there are tons of topics about this that answer your question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay5 Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Here you go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikbojerik Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Short answer...learn the trig equations for sine, cosine and tangent and post them in the workshop along with a trig-enabled calculator. Then all you ever have to do is measure the sides of triangles and calculate your angles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay5 Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Thats the short answer? That protractor is pretty damn quick IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwj Posted October 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Thats the short answer? That protractor is pretty damn quick IMO. ← thanks for the input. I was just looking at the leevalley page at the assortment of protractors. I will give one of them a shot. I will also look into the doing it the "math" way. I was never very good at math and thought I'd like to take some courses now that I'm older (and maybe wiser ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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