Ever thought that a construction or measuring tool for writing? The first time I saw a laser level as a guideline for writing straight was something out of this world!
As lack of knowledge, I never thought that this kind of measuring tool can be used on my desk together with my other drawing and writing tools.
But after I have seen a video at youtube, I can’t really remember from whom, but this doesn’t matter, what matters is that after I see that this tool can be used other than at a construction site, I felt love at first site and inside my mind I shouted Wow this world is really wise!
Then I started to do some research and the laser level is really not something for calligraphers, its quite normal for them to use as guidelines on the paper to help write in straight line.
Using the laser level, the calligrapher no need to measure the two sides of the paper to write a straight line then erase the lines after writing.
So I tried to find from the sources I know where I can buy one online, but it wasn’t as easy as I expected. I mean, this product is not difficult to find, but to find one that is economical, affordable to my pocket and do what I expect is not easy.
Then one day I discovered a site, I think its a Chinese site that offers delivery to foreign countries with affordable prices. I then decide to take a shot and try to get a cheap one, this costs me about US$6.00.
After few weeks, the delivery arrived to my door, I opened it and started to do some testing. The product itself is not of great quality, just cheap plastic, but it does what I needed for writing straight and compare the size with other brands, this one is smaller and the beam light is close to the surface.
The laser level is more or less the size of an ordinary mouse, I mean the mouse we use, not the animal mouse. Uses 2 AAA batteries (according to the package the battery life takes about 20hrs of usage) and the maximum range is about 10 meters.
I am quite satisfy with the product, as mentioned before, its not a high quality, but for the price I get and do what I expect, I am ok with it.
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