I recently completed a guitar neck carving jig from a set of plans. Those plans came from the land of OZ and were all in metric units. I decided to keep it all in metric instead of converting the measurements. If you haven’t seen that video, here it is.

After I posted that video, a few of you guys asked for my thoughts on using metric so I decided I’d share them now.

The very first thing I discovered was that I really didn’t have any metric measuring tools, save for a small steel ruler. All of my tape measures, calipers and such are in Standard increments. I had to go out and find a few meauring tapes that I could work with. I ended up finding a 2 meter one I really liked using. This wouldn’t have been such a big deal for me, had I planned ahead in time to just order some online, but instead I waited until the last minute and had to use what I could find locally.

Once I had my measuring devices sorted out, I got to work. As I started making measurements, I started feeling like my dimensions were more accurate. I don’t know why that is, but for some reason I felt it was more accurate. Maybe its not at all but that was my immediate perception. I began really liking using metric measurements. I can’t explain why I felt this way. Maybe its the excitement of trying something different. Maybe its all in my head. I know that you can achieve great accuracy with Imperial units as well, so I cannot explain my thoughts on this.

I’d love to hear from you on this. Have you ever compared both metric and imperial measuring? What do you think? Leave a comment below after checking out the video. Thanks for stopping in.

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Stanley 26′ Tape Measure (with metric) – https://amzn.to/3pVBdNU

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