Accurate Measuring

Something very little has always had me scratching my head. 99.9% of people do this, if they have to measure and mark something.
Let’s say it’s a piece of wood.
The tab of the measuring tape is hooked on the end. . .
The tape is pulled out to expose the number one needs it measured to . .
They take a pencil, bring it to the little tick they need to mark. . .
Then they draw a little mark on the board with the pencil.

Then they draw it backandforthandbackandforth Again and Again .
They are inadvertently making the mark thicker and thicker so that it is sometimes almost a couple of millimetres wide. So when you go to cut it to the mark, you don’t know which side of the mark to go to.
When Accuracy is important, and in this business it is, Why would one go to the trouble of making an accurate mark then make it inaccurate the same second ? This invariably results in a sloppy fit, although it’s not much, it can be critical.

When you make a mark with the pencil, make ONE mark, not 2,3,4. In the name of accuracy.

Anal – I’ve been called many times over this tiny thing. But Dang, it just makes sense.

And speaking of tape measures - The End of a tape measure – that little tab - IS SUPPOSE TO BE WIGGLY. For a similar reason to above. The tab will wiggle precisely the Thickness of the tab. If you’re measuring the inside of something it will move in that 1/16” , or the outside of something it will move out that 16th.