- [Kristen] Do you have a bunch of looms
and you don't know what loom gauge they are?
Well, have no fear, the loom gauge ruler is here.
We have the Precision Loom Gauge Ruler
that gives you exactly what you need
to find out what exactly that fraction is
that's so hard to measure on the measuring tape,
and we have a Range Ruler, which is a small,
shorter version, and it gives you all the ranges
in the extra fine gauge all the way
to the jumbo gauge looms, and all these little tick marks
mark off all the ones that fit into that range.
So I'm gonna show you how to use the ruler,
how to get the ruler, and best practices
on printing the ruler.
All right, well, I've got a selection of a few looms here,
and let's say I wanna find out what it is.
So I'm gonna look at my little chart.
First of all, this little chart comes with it too.
We have extra fine gauge, EFG, a fine gauge,
a small gauge, regular, large, extra large, and jumbo,
and this little chart helps you
because it tells you all the C2C spacings,
the center peg to center peg measurement,
and all the fractions involved in it,
and this handy dandy chart tells you
what weight is recommended on that loom.
So it's really cool.
You can hole punch it and put it on your keychain
or whatever you wanna do, put it in your loom bag
and go to town.
The Range Ruler works like this.
We have one that has the ranges of sizes
that fit in that gauge, and then the Precision one
is to find out precisely which gauge it is.
So if you just wanna know exactly what fraction it is,
you just hold this one right up to it,
pick up your loom, and find it.
So if I look at this line here, this long, vertical line
that connects them all, I wanna line that up
with the center of my peg here, all right?
So let's go until we find it.
So we're gonna go line up to one of these pegs here,
this one here, and I'm gonna move,
and we'll start down here.
So you can see that it's not gonna be
in the extra fine category, it's not gonna be
in these fine gauge all the way to here.
Now we're in small gauge, okay?
So we're not quite to 3/8 yet,
but it looks like, oh, it looks like we're 7/16.
Do you see that?
So we're lining up the center of one peg,
and if it's easier, you can line it up with the side
or where you see that shadow, you can line it up
with that side edge on that peg
and then look where it lines up
on the same side edge of the other peg.
Just do whatever's easier for you,
but it basically, it fits in the middle of each peg, okay?
So if I went to the half,
you'd see that it goes over a little bit.
Now, it's falling in.
You can see this little line here.
It's faint on the camera, but you can see it in real life.
You can see that the 7/16 falls in the small gauge,
and if it went up to half inch
it would fall in the regular gauge.
If we wanna use our Range Ruler, then I put it up here,
and we just saw that it was fitting
in the small gauge category, so you can see
that line there and you can see it fits
with the largest one in the small gauge.
If I go up to regular gauge, you can see
how it's not quite in that category.
It goes just past it, okay?
And that's how we can tell.
Let's pick another one.
Here's an old Markman Farm loom.
See it has these big, wide spaces?
I can just line it up to one of those lines
and then this line, the same line on this side over here.
So I think that was, let's see, this category here,
yeah, it fits in the small gauge category.
So it's gonna be on that first,
that first little tick mark there,
which is probably, if I wanna be more accurate
then I can go to the small gauge, and it's the smallest one,
and that is going to be the 5/16.
So we know that that's 5/16.
You can see, it's kinda hard to see on camera,
but there's a little line here, okay?
So that's how you use it.
Any of 'em will work, and because it's clear,
it works really well, and you're using a nice laminate
that has a, it has a nice thickness to it.
So we'll talk about that in just a moment.
You can also choose to use just the transparency only,
and then it'll be really flimsy and stuff.
So this could get bent or whatever or destroyed.
That's why I recommend putting it on laminate.
All right, stay tuned and I'm gonna show you
how to print your own.
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The following are printing instructions
for your Loom Gauge Range Ruler, and the chart,
and the Precision Loom Gauge Ruler.
For best results, you want to print off two transparencies,
and then we're going to sandwich them
in between a 10 mil layer.
Now, my printer at my Office Depot/ Office Max,
they had a five (5 mil) or a 10.
If you use the five (mil), you can get results
that have these bubbles and pockets,
and also it will give you the same results
if you only use one layer of transparency in between.
Okay, so how you do that is you print off two of these
and put the right-side up and then put one right-side down
and then they get put right into this little pocket, okay,
and so I would put in one here,
and so when you print yours off
it's going to look like this, okay?
But when we cut it out, they will totally separate
and you will have two sets of tools.
If you want to, you could print one transparency
and put it face up and then you can take a cardstock
and put it face down like this,
and then you put it in a laminate envelope,
again, this is just a sample so it's not the whole thing,
but it would get laminated,
and then you would have two separate sheets.
It's just the back of this cardstock would be raw.
The other thing that I did is
I printed one extra sheet off on cardstock,
and then I have my chart that I can really see really well.
Otherwise, it's going to be clear, like this sample here.
So if you wanted a solid and heavier weight
to put on a keyring or something,
then I recommend doing that.
Here I'm gonna show you what this looks like
as I'm cutting it out.
Before cutting, make sure that your trimmer
or cutter has a nice sharp blade.
If it doesn't, it's not gonna go through very well.
It's gonna stop cutting,
and it could actually ruin your tool.
So you wanna make sure that this is working properly.
I used 'em for free to cut out my samples
actually when I printed them off at the office supply place
and it worked really well, and they keep theirs nice
and sharp because they have to.
Plus, if it's messed up, they'll fix it for you.
The cutter I'm using is one of these older style,
I call it a guillotine style,
but you can use the ones that slice this way.
I recommend going ahead and just putting your blade down
close up to this line on this side here,
but you're gonna do it on the right side,
and just do the edges first.
Work around all four edges.
Now, if you have printed them back-to-back
on the clear laminate, of course it will look
a little bit jumbled, but you should be able to get around
the entire parameter, and then once you cut those,
it will loosen the two sides from each other
and then you can just cut them individually
down into the individual rulers,
and you can see I've cut one of them out
and now I'm working on the second one with the chart below.
Just cut out around the chart
and then trim the little extra edges there,
and then cut out the other ruler,
and you will be good to go,
and then trim your second set of rulers.
Another tip is to print off
an extra one of these on cardstock,
and you can cut out all of the fractions
and you can use it to organize and label your looms at home.
If you wanna put them in bins sorted by the gauge,
then that's completely up to you.
It would be a fun way to use one of your extra prints.
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