In my old apt. I used to keep my drafting tools tacked to the wall with brads.
When I moved here, I wanted something more. And as I've recently bought some really nice drafting tools, I thought they needed a better home.
It was originally going to be just a board with dowels to hold things in place, But I ended up going overboard.
All of the feathers are hand carved, and the eye that holds my protractor is actually an inlaid, carved, and wood burned piece...
I'll try to get a better picture if it later...
But here it is...
drafting board x01.jpg
There's around $80 of high quality stuff here...
The triangles are worth about $30, the compass/divider is a pro job at over $20.
The rulers, that you can't really make out at the center are fantastic. They're clear with red lines in 1/8" increments in a graph form, and they also have centering marks...I don't know how I ever got along without them...
That's my brad pusher on the right. And the calculator does math in feet, inches, and fractions down to 1/16"..
Finally I made something for me...

When I moved here, I wanted something more. And as I've recently bought some really nice drafting tools, I thought they needed a better home.
It was originally going to be just a board with dowels to hold things in place, But I ended up going overboard.
All of the feathers are hand carved, and the eye that holds my protractor is actually an inlaid, carved, and wood burned piece...
I'll try to get a better picture if it later...
But here it is...
drafting board x01.jpg
There's around $80 of high quality stuff here...
The triangles are worth about $30, the compass/divider is a pro job at over $20.
The rulers, that you can't really make out at the center are fantastic. They're clear with red lines in 1/8" increments in a graph form, and they also have centering marks...I don't know how I ever got along without them...
That's my brad pusher on the right. And the calculator does math in feet, inches, and fractions down to 1/16"..
Finally I made something for me...



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