Stanley Odd Jobs

The Stanley No. 1 Odd Jobs was a tool produced by the Stanley Works from 1888 into the 1930s, combining the functions of several separate layout tools into one small, pocketable unit. Its documented functions included a try square, a mitre square, a T-square, a marking gauge, a mortise gauge, a depth gauge, a mitre level, a spirit level and plumb, a beam compass and an inside square, most of them used together with a separate ruler, often a four-fold rule trimmed in brass, that fit into the tool to enable many of these functions. The name reflects the tool's ability to perform many different small layout jobs from one compact unit; its closest modern equivalent is the combination square, though the Odd Jobs kept some features, such as its built-in compass and specialized gauging capability, that a plain combination square does not have.