I recently had to lay out something, don't remember now what it was, where I had to have x number of holes within so many inches. By doing the math the spacing came out at something like 25/64ths of an inch. I used a spreadsheet to determine the decimal coordinate of each spot, then converted the decimal to 32nds of an inch in the neighbor cell, which is about the smallest I can approximate with a pencil on a rule. With my spreadsheet giving me the distance from zero for each hole I just made a pencil mark on my rule. No cumulative error this way, and the precision for each individual location was probably +/- .030. Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802
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