These are great times to be a tool junkie. The major tool companies are constantly scrambling to come up with new tools, like impact drivers, oscillating multitools, and even cordless compound miter saws, to make our daily toil easier and more productive. Meanwhile, many of us also rely on tools that have been around for decades, or even centuries, like hammers, hand saws and tape measures. Fortunately, the tool manufacturers haven’t ignored these basic tools, and every year they come out with new and (usually) improved versions. This is certainly the case with the ubiquitous tape measure, and Stanley Black & Decker recently sent us their latest update to a tool that everyone owns: A tape measure. We’ll see how the new Stanley 2018 FatMax tape measure fares in this battle of inches. Read More