Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
I think this will be my last compass. It is 24” from pivot to point and made from 3/4” Brazilian Rosewood. It will swing a 64” circle. It is finished with Danish Oil and then buffed and waxed. This is the prettiest wood I ever worked with and I am very allergic to it so I had a respirator on for every operation but I still did get some bad symptoms from it .All the brass pieces were turned from solid stock and the tip is hardened tool steelI have the need for some big radii some times and made a lot of cardboard templates up to 150” and I grab them for the best fitting one but sometimes they just don't fit right so now I can easily make one up to a 32” radius.I added some process shots below of the steps I use to make one of these. I used my last 12” one to layout the curved arm for this one!Cheers, Jim
