Handy Layout & Marketing Tools - All Under $20 and Available on Amazon!

Taking a look at layout and marking tools that are all under $20! Links to buy below.
LINKS TO BUY FEATURED PRODUCTS (INCLUDES PAID LINKS):
🇺🇸 Pentel 0.5 P205 (2 pack) - amzn.to/3Xz62Ks
🇺🇸 Pica Dry Bundle - amzn.to/44w5yXA
🇺🇸 Irwin 12" Combination Square - amzn.to/43dbFPD
🇺🇸 Irwin 6" Combination Square - amzn.to/3pyEA2Q
🇺🇸 FastCap Standard Tape Measure - amzn.to/440ZxT3
🇺🇸 FastCap Metric Tape Measure - amzn.to/44l5WZ4
🇺🇸 FastCap Standard + Metric Tape Measure - amzn.to/3NXRReJ
🇺🇸 Stanley 69-122 Scratch Awl - amzn.to/3NYK7sP
🇺🇸 Big Horn Marking Knife - amzn.to/3PHebKN
🇨🇦 Pentel 0.5 P205 (2 pack) - amzn.to/3CVFmtO
🇨🇦 Pica Dry Bundle - amzn.to/46xR0so
🇨🇦 Irwin 12" Combination Square - amzn.to/46vOrXU
🇨🇦 Irwin 6" Combination Square - amzn.to/3JK3X8J
🇨🇦 FastCap Standard Tape Measure - amzn.to/43dbwf3
🇨🇦 FastCap Metric Tape Measure - amzn.to/44uKKzP
🇨🇦 FastCap Standard + Metric Tape Measure - amzn.to/3NAf9WM
🇨🇦 Stanley 69-122 Scratch Awl - amzn.to/44s56cR
🇨🇦 Big Horn Marking Knife - amzn.to/3r4EvnS
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Pentel mechanical pencil
1:30 Pica Dry pencil
2:00 Irwin combination squares
2:50 FastCap tape measure
3:00 Stanley Scratch Awl
3:50 Big Horn marking knife
4:00 Final thoughts
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[@MasonWoodshop]

What are your favourite layout and marking tools under $20? Leave a comment below!

[@RYwoodview]

4" double square

[@MasonWoodshop]

I do love my 4” double square and bench squares from iGaging! Bought both in combo sets with the 6” equivalent of each - maybe cost $60-$80 per set and well worth it!

[@a9ball1]

The most often used inexpensive tool I grab is my 12" combo square. I use it to check square, depth, 45 angle and as a metal ruler.

[@NWGR]

Excellent video. Those expensive tools are accurate and look great on a shelf, but as this video clearly shows, you don't need to break the bank to get accurate layout.
I use both the pica pencils and the pentel mechanical pencils too; .7mm lead on the pentels, and llike you, one pica with the white lead for marking darker wood and one with regular lead. I do like my leads a step above #2 in hardness, so I use HB in my pentels and H in my pica.
I have that true32 tape measure as well as the one that has both metric and imperial, both in the 16' lengths. Amazing tape measures.
A few of my other most used marking/layout tools are the lee valley automatic center punch, veritas saddle square (I seriously love that thing) and, a bit over $20 depending on the size, but my most used layout tools, my shinwa satin chrome rigid rules.
I had to import these from Japan from an ebay seller since the ones I bought are hard to find in the states. They're shinwa #s 13404 (150mm), 13463 (300mm) and 13412 (600mm). I do want the 1000mm variant (13498), but it's ~$105 shipped from Japan, so I'll hold off on that one until I really need it, if I ever do.
What made these particular rules so desirable to me is that they're graduated in whole mm only; no half mm on one edge. Since switching to metric for my woodworking, I've not needed to use anything smaller than a mm with any project. This makes sense to me, as 1mm is 1/128" more than 1/32", and rarely do I even work with 32nds. So whole mm increments are absolutely perfect for my workflow.
I also love that the graduations are in mm and not cm like some of the tape measures I have. That just makes things so much easier for me.
Anyway, again, thanks for the video and see you on the next one!

[@MasonWoodshop]

Thanks for watching and leaving a comment! Those Shinwa rules look amazing and they look like a modest step-up from the Axminster one I have (I love the centering ability with the Axminster).

[@bdm1000]

The problem with inexpensive measuring tools is consistency. My Irwin combination square was not square, but my Empire was (both checked with a Woodpeckers Mini Square). I threw my Irwin in the garbage ($13 down the drain). If I ordered duplicates of these tools I would have probably gotten opposite results because the lack of quality control on such inexpensive items. As such, I won't buy similar products online unless they're made by someone like Woodpeckers . That said, I can now go into hardware stores with my Woodpeckers Mini Square and check cheap tools for square before I buy them.