I have been working on an project that will stay unmentioned at this time and needed a large compass for it. I began looking for plans for a compass and came across this very nice Beam Compass. I built it slightly differently from the plans using some photocopier parts and other things laying around. The thumb screw is the copier part here. The brass point is a piece of brass I had sitting around. I have found that using a dremel or grinder on a piece that is spinning in the drill press allows or some easy creation of symetrical patterns that would only otherwise be possible on a metal lathe.
Created January 2014
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