Toolbox: Rethinking Level and Plumb

The Smart Level may be the first fully electronic device to replace one of our beloved old hand tools: bubble vial levels. But the sense of craftsmanship, formerly associated with traditional tools, is promoted, not lost, by the use of the Smart Level’s advanced electronics. Indeed, this tool gives builders more than an image of high-tech; it opens up whole new capabilities for levels. For starters, it measures accuracy in tenths of a degree and can be reset with the push of a button (really) to verify that the reading is correct. How often I have discovered my conventional levels have been knocked out of true only after I have nailed a project home! Moreover, the took, described as