re: Getting Started Building Furniture

Another tip is to invest in quality measuring and marking tools. It makes a huge difference.

A pencil mark is fine for most things, but when you get into finer work a pencil is just not accurate enough. That’s when you move to a marking knife, panel gauge, etc.

You don’t have to go super expensive like Starrett. PEC makes good stuff for a more reasonable prices. Aim for something less precise than a machinist would use, but more better than stuff you buy at Home Depot.