Review on Kapro 307-08-TMS Try And Mitre Layout And Marking Square With Stainless Steel Blade, 8-Inch Length by John Barnett

This is a mitre square; If you need one, you know what it is and why you need it. Function dictates form, and this is an elegant, functional design. The price is extremely reasonable for the product, and I have nothing negative to say about quality. In fact, quite the opposite. I will now tell you a short story and then explain why I think this is a 5-star product.When I was a wee lad, several decades ago, I received a set of letter-shaped blocks constructed of plastic. I thought nothing of this, and played happily with blocks for some time (I was, remember, just a wee lad). The years passed. I lost interest in blocks and they wound up in an area of the cellar near the seasonal decorations and not far from a workbench. Still strewn about, mind you.One day, playing with a wrench I was not supposed to be touching, I dropped this great big metal threaded monstrosity and it landed on, then went sideways down and off of it and clattered off of the cement floor. Experiencing a brief moment of accident remorse, I returned the wrench to the workbench and picked up my old block to inspect it. Plastic, I knew, cracked. It dented, it discolored when stressed. Plastic was the concept of impermence made tangible; Its very malleability made it fragile.There wasn't a mark. Not a dent, not a scratch, nothing.I looked more closely at it, this unknown formerly known quantity. There were visible lines in it. threads of reinforcing material? Natural striations in the material? It LOOKED different than the other plastics.I put the block back down. I stood on it. Any effect? None. I jumped up and down on it. Nothing. I swapped blocks - Choosing a "C" so that weight on one edge would surely cause it to bend or crack or something. Nothing.I pounded the hell out of them. I did everything but drill or burn them (I WAS able to mar them with a utility knife, but it was hard work for my little hands and felt like cheating), and determined that here, in the basement, was an uber-plastic heretofore unknown to me, horrified at my former indifference, and wondered why not everything in the world was made of the stuff.I returned my blocks to their pile on the floor and resumed disassembling and reassembling much of the interesting tools and items in the house for a period of years until we moved several times and those blocks eventually disappeared.Well, my friends, this tool has a handle with plastic component that looks JUST like the fabled uber-plastic of the early 70s, made with some unknown component of fiberglass or unicorn horn or dragon's wing, or whatever it was, and is probably the same nearly-indestructible material I marveled at all those years ago.And THAT is why I think this is a five-star product and would recommend it to anyone. Plus, you know, functional tool of elegant design. But also probably nearly indestructible but for gross negligence or deliberate malice.