Quote Originally Posted by VinnieL View Post
I have been the gambit of tape measures also. One I really like is an old wind-up stainless steel 33 ft. one made by Lufkin with the reddish brown leather cover. I also like to use the fold-up Lufkin wooden carpenter rules as well, however being a left-hander they are difficult. They actually made one for left-handed people, but they are kind of hard to find.
I tell everyone that I'm a lefty but I do so much with either it is often hard to tell as I read a tape upside down right side up right to left, left to right makes no difference to me I do the same thing with data plates using a mirror to see them.
I used to have a steel folding rule that I really liked metric printed on 1 side inch on the other Think it may have been Lufkin as well