Dealmonger: Denali Digital Protractor
By Lex Dodson
I was trained as a machinist, and finding angles always drove me up the wall. For some reason, I find it really hard to trust my own math when creating fixtures with Joe blocks and sine plates, and wind up verifying everything seven ways. Denali has a little something that may take the sting out.
While digital protractors like this have been around for a while, it’s hard to pass up Amazon’s $23 price on this one. Strictly speaking, it may not be accurate enough for precision work, but +/- 1 degree is more than enough for woodworking and sheet metal layout. +/- 1 degree is probably the best you’d get with a steel protractor. More accurate versions are available from Bosch, but ninety percent of the time, Denali’s little 11-incher should be plenty, and it’ll save you a lot of close-up guesswork.
Denali 11-inch digital protractor [What’s This?] [Via Amazon]
August 10th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
if this thing has digital capability for the angle, why not also get digital for the level??? this seems like an incomplete product.
August 12th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Because digital levels have to be calibrated, level is a matter of relationships, not reason to digitize what does not need to be…..
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