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47 minutes ago, Kato said:

Pantograph, angle finder, angle repeater, circle drawer...replacement peacock butt...poor man's nunchucks...???

 

None of those exactly, but some come close.

 

The wing nut adjustment is to allow the sticks to be lined up with the pen lines:

 

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And then its function is obvious:

 

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It's a center finder for circles.

 

I found this the other day tucked into a nook under my workbench.  Clearly I made it at some point, but I don't remember doing it, or why I needed it.  It took me a couple of minutes even to figure out what it was.

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6 hours ago, Jronman said:

I don't think I was joking far as I know haha but you mentioned finding the center. I was thinking center as in center point.

 

Yes, that's what it's for.  You draw a line, rotate the tool (or the piece), and draw another.  Where they cross is the center.  No need for two tools.

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11 hours ago, dwasifar said:

 

Yes, that's what it's for.  You draw a line, rotate the tool (or the piece), and draw another.  Where they cross is the center.  No need for two tools.

Unless you count the user bbahahhhaha ? 

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