Talk:Try square

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It's "try square." Leader toolmakers Stanley and Starrett sell it with that name. Sources such as Popular Woodworking use that name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.91.233.96 (talk) January 2012 (UTC)

Hi. How things change... I know people call this a "try square" all the time, but in my book it's really a "Gallows Square" which has two arms at 90 degrees of unequal length. A try square has two arms of equal length at 90 degrees. A trisquare is a trysquare but with the flat on it which allows you to also measure a 45 degree angle.I was told it was a trisquare because it has three angles, the outside 90 degrees, the inside 90 degrees and the angle of 45 degrees cut into the generally thicker arm to allow you to measure the 45 degree angle. Trades people today might call a gallows square a trysquare, but a gallows square is what is pictured. The name seems to have evolved over time so I am sure you can source the hell out of the article, but I can source that the earth is flat.... and while tradespeople today offer to fix my chairs from the Nineteenth Century with a nail gun, what more do you need to know to know that they don't know ! This is why we have 4 door coupes today. Go figure.. but it seems the internet has generally made this mistake and being old, and taught by my much older father,we are relics of the past and wikipedia will make the definition anew.. 1.152.106.154 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:48, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've added gallows square as an alternative name in the infobox. All the references I've seen to gallows squares are in the context of Free Masonry. LittleDwangs (talk) 21:28, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]