Small Carpenter Square

This little square is well made with extremely accurate measurement marks. It’s become my go to quick marking device. Because of its small size, it’s easy to put in a pocket, staying handy for a quick mark and transferring marks round limber edges. Because of its accuracy and size, I now reach for this square much more often than my old traditional carpenter square.

Very nice quality square! It has more features than the higher priced red one. Very convenient to keep in my apron. Great product

Very well made and accurate tool.

True to 90 and 45. Way cheaper than Woodpeckers. Great value. I have not used the pin for setting angles, but fully expect it to work accurately. Great size for tool setup and small layout work. I highly recommend.

If you intending to use this very well machined and accurate square for basic use you won't be disappointed. Where it let me down was in that the 1/16th holes for marking require a mechanical pencil. While that is great for a more accurate line the problem is with the thickness of the blade that requires you to extend the lead so far to get through it. At that point the lead is very fragile. While it will certainly work, I found it to be more trouble than it was worth to use. Since part of the reason I wanted it was to utilize that function I will use one of my other options. Otherwise, I have only good things to say about it as DFM makes high quality products for a fair price.

I saw a review of this product on the 931 Woodworks Youtube video and decided to give it a try. The famous red WoodWorker's products are awe inspiring but as a beginner I am having a hard time justifying the purchase in our family budget....With that said, this DFM little square fits the bill perfectly for me in terms of balancing affordability, usefulness, accuracy, durability, and aesthetics. So I just started woodworking as a hobby and built my spouse some pull out drawers and some kitchen cabinets. This little square is used CONSTANTLY to mark cut lines, check for square, measure the height of saw blades, set 45 degree angles, scribe straight lines a consistent distance from the edge of a board, etc. It's wonderfully accurate and incredibly easy to keep on your person while you work through your project. I've seen some people deduct a star because the information on the aluminum is painted on instead of engraved. I can see that this could be a problem eventually, so I hope DFM reconsiders this characteristic for future manufacturing. I think that many people would be willing to pay a bit more if DFM can stay under the red W brand's price levels.

Good tool, well made!

I always love DFM products. They’re precise, well made in the USA, and have some cool features like the pin for the carpenters square used for making out polygon holes and the scribing line holes. Great prices too! It’s nice to have a small 3 inch square like that instead of using a giant 12 in square that’s totally unnecessary while making small projects, but it also works well on 2x’s. It’s size makes it, along with the small square and center finder I great way to really verify that a blade, fence, or table is at 90 or 45 instead of relying on the built in gauges that are never dead on correct.

Very accurate. I found it more accurate then my Starrett combination square