Shop made compass

Very nice. I made a compass once…out of a clothes pin and some tape and a screw…not nearly as big or nice looking as yours, but it was all I had to work with where I was at the time and I wanted to draw some arcs.

Very nice.
It's funny… every time I think of a tool that I need, someone posts one that they made.
This place is filled with great ideas.
Thanks for sharing.

Looks good. That should definately get the job done. Thanks for the post.

Neato!

Very well done. I need one of this too

nothing can´t be compared to used homemade tools
congrat´s with the new toy

how did you made the locking mechanisme ?

take care
Dennis

First you make the tool to make the tool to make the tool to make the… what was it I was going to make in the first place? I forgot…

that will surely "strike an arc"

Thanks for the nice comments guys!
I made this to be able to layout a pattern (using radial line development) on cardboard for a shop built cyclone I am planning to make soon.
One other thing I want to do to the compass is move the pencil thumbscrew up a bit and counter bore the hole to accept a sharpie pen.
Dennis, the locking mechanism is simply a lid stay I scrounged a while back from an old record player TV console someone had thrown away. I had to remove the part that attaches to the lid and place a screw there instead.
I keep a hammer, Flathead and phillips screwdrivers, pry-bar in the car at all times so that whenever I see some one throwing away old furniture (or even new junky furniture I can salvage the hardware off it. I have hinges, screws. and all sorts of hardware in coffee cans in my shed just waiting for an opportunity to be re-used or re-purposed. In most cases the hardware is the most usable part of the furniture, if the wood is solid and not particle board I will take that apart too. Sometimes even MDF furniture if it hasn't seen any weather will make it's way to my shop. I don't have a big shed so I have to cull the junk in it from time to time and this spring I really have to get it organized.

great invention!

Thank´s Tinnocker
for reminding me of this with the recycling thing ….. LOL
I always seems to forget it when I drive around and see a cointainer people is filling
when they empty a house ….not that I don´t pick up things but this with
only hunting the hardware as you have done I always forget outside my own premisis

take care
Dennis

I have a pair of old lid supports so I may make a couple of dividers like this myself. Just a note, your link is a dead one. (http://www.twhgrafx.com/blog/).