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Dan Kirkland
06-01-2017, 8:44 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak3ZCoZA_xs


https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4223/34899146771_da8dd47d0c_z.jpg

I had made one of these for myself (a small one) just for every day tasks. When I heard that one of my favorite youtubers was holding a tool build off/giveaway I used it as an excuse to build the one I made in the video.

The beam is 25"/635mm long, allowing the user to scribe out pretty big circle. I didn't have enough space on my back porch to use it to it's full extent.

The wood is some really old and well seasoned cherry I picked up. I really love this wood and working with it is a blast.

Anyways, thanks for reading/watching!

Jim Becker
06-02-2017, 10:22 AM
Very nice...

Please do post some still photos...we have a lot of members who have Internet links that are not suitable for watching videos.

Dan Kirkland
06-02-2017, 2:02 PM
Very nice...

Please do post some still photos...we have a lot of members who have Internet links that are not suitable for watching videos.

That's a good point, apologies for not doing so. I've edited the original post with some