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Hot take: The way we mark out studs has gotten way too complicated
Last Tuesday I was on a job framing out a basement in an old building near downtown. This younger guy comes over, fresh out of trade school, and he's got a fancy digital stud finder and a laser setup that cost him over 150 bucks. He spent a good 10 minutes calibrating it and checking the walls. I walked over with my old Neodymium magnet on a string, found every single stud in about 30 seconds flat. He looked at my setup and just said, 'That thing still works?' I told him I've been using the same magnet for 8 years and it never needs batteries. Has anyone else noticed a lot of new drafters and framers overcomplicating the basics? What's the simplest tool you still use every day?
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the_nina1mo ago
Did you see his face when that magnet hit the first stud? Priceless.
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