Abstract: A detachable tool combining bracket and method for accomplishing the detachable affixment of a combination square and a tape measure such that the respective tools in combination relative one to the other, through employment of the combining bracket and method, thereby enables one to quickly and conveniently measure and mark off along the longitudinal edge of a workpiece equal or varying perpendicular lengths thereof, in either a right or left-hand use configuration of the tools in combination, and after the foregoing use application of the tools in combination enables the quick and convenient detachment of the combining bracket from each of the tools respectively such that each of the tools may thereupon be traditionally employed separately and unimpeded in other use applications when the combined use application thereof by way of the tool combining bracket is not called for.