Metal Stick-on Measuring Tapes

When I inherited my grandfather’s workbench, it had a metal stick-on ruler applied to its front edge, much like you would find on a tailor’s bench.

I didn’t think much of it, though I used it all the time. Let’s mark this cut at 2", roughly. Let’s see how much space there is between these two battens. Stuff like that.

When I built my own workbench in 1999…