Measuring & Layout

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A pair of small knurled brass or steel clamps that thumbscrew onto the edge of a framing square. Set them at the rise and the run and the square repeats the same layout on every step of a stringer. Cheap, and the only way to lay out stairs quickly.
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Clamp to a framing square to repeat the same rise and run on every stringer.