I’m putting up a new log store in the back garden, and I want it to have a nice pitched roof, rather than a boring single sloped affair. It took me about a week to work out how to design the rafters.

Roof rafter

One of the best tutorials I saw for cutting a rafter was here from ThisIsCarpentry:

So I needed a tool to measure angles, but couldn’t find a framer’s square like our friend in the video. I got one of these instead:

Combination Square and Protractor
Combination Square and Protractor