Scrounging around for the right sized round object to draw a circle has
gotten old so I finally made myself a compass.BTW, the template for the top
of the compass is the bottom of a yogurt cup.

It's made from hard maple. The bolt is a regular 1/4-20 carriage bolt. After
being chucked in the lathe, it took me all of 2 minutes with a file,
sandpaper and then a little buffing compound to turn it into a toughable
chrome-like fastener. Originally I was going to use a wing nut on the other
side, but I found that I could thread a bolt directly into a 7/32" hole and
the threads held just fine. Oh, and there's a reason why the "nut" looks
alot like a -20- biscuit.

Thanks for looking.

Steve






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