How to Draw a Perfect Circle Without Fancy Tools - Kevin Caron
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2020
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From www.kevincaron.com - Artist Kevin Caron shares tips & tricks for drawing a perfect circle with simple household & shop items ....
Kevin Caron wants to lay out a circle. He looked around and found several items he could trace around, but none of them was the right size.
So what do you do? If you happen to have a compass, that will work. Kevin Caron shows a welding compass that holds a piece of soapstone for marking on metal. You can just set it to whatever size you want. Measure across the ends with your tape measure for half of the distance so you can make the whole circle.
But what happens if the compass isn't big enough? You can always get a bigger compass. Kevin Caron shows how he taped a metal marking pen to one side of a large compass, but you can tape on any kind of marker. You set up your compass, get your distance right, and lay out your circle.
What happens if you don't have a compass? Find a ball of string or really any kind of string. Do you have a pair of boots? Take out the bootlaces, tie them together.
You also need an anchor in the middle of your circle. Kevin Caron shows a rare earth magnet. He keeps them around for holding down plans. They're great for drawing circles, because you can just stick them to a piece of metal.
(Kevin Caron then explains the piece of paper he set the rare earth magnet on: it's so he can get the magnet back off the table again!)
Take a string, tie it right around the magnet, and get half of your distance. Keep your marker absolutely vertical. Keep the string nice and tight - not so tight that you pull it loose, not so tight that you move the magnet, lose the marker, whatever, but just keep some tension on it and you can draw all the way around your circle. Mark out out your circle as the string rotates around the center magnet as you go. And you wind up with a perfect circle.
What if you don't have a rare earth magnet? What if you don't have any kind of magnet? You're working on a piece of steel. You can't put a nail in it, but you could drill a hole in the middle, put a screw in it, and use that as your center point.
If you don't want a hole, do you have a bucket or anything round the string could slip around that you could fill with sand or rocks? You could yell for the wife to stand on the center piece to hold it down. That's all you need! Things you have around the house. Just find the tool that you need.
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Great video Kevin like all your videos short and to the point.
P.S. ignore the thumbs down and the ridiculous comments by the trolls. There are lots of us who enjoy your tips and appreciate the time you take to produce them. Thanks to your wife also.
Thanks 👍. Always great to hear from you Jim!
V good sir
Thank you for being constantly positive, informative and funny. Cheers to you and Mrs. Caron's health.
And thank you for watching!
A buddy of mine keeps a bunch of the 1x2 trim lumber in his shop, uses it for all kinds of things. I have no doubt that he'd used it to make circles with drilling two holes, one for the marker, the other for the pivot.
Kevin I've been watching your channel for a few years and am also a metal artist, albeit much more back yard than you but you've always had such great videos and I've learned a lot from them and your helpful comments. But I wasn't feeling well today so I turned on the TV and in an old 20/20 episode is none other than one of "The Real Rookies"!! Awesome!! That makes me even more inspired (being a grandma:) so thanks for sharing! Also great to see the voice (and brains) behind the camera ;)
I appreciate that! Was a fun couple of days shooting with the crew. Thank you for watching and posting .
Adapt, Improvise, overcome!
I always use a beer can or 2 or 3 or 4 ,LOL !!
Great video Kevin, I used a wooden yard stick as a compass for cardboard, I drilled a small hole at the 1 inch mark as my pivot point and used a nail through the cardboard and drilled a larger hole for a pen at the distance I needed, worked great, I guess you could tack a finish nail to metal as your pivot point too 👍😁
Great tip! Thank you for sharing.
Keep your stubbies, especially 7018. Just touch the rod at exactly where you want the center to be and let it stick, then release the clamp. When done break it off and grind it smooth.
Thanks for the tips!
Only problem is keeping the string tight. Alternatively, pound a finishing nail through one end of a piece of 1" trim/offcut, and drill a hole or affix your marker somewhere along that piece.
Someone's probably got a good trick like that with a cheap tape measure.
All great tricks and thank you for sharing.
How do I make a tig welder from cans and rocks?
Watch Gilligan's Island! The professor did that in one episode .
> thats super hunky dory there kevin; and now for something completely different...faced with the task of showing an apprentice carpenter how to develop a pattern, create a framework and place a soffit/valance (level 2 ceiling) that will mimic the outline of an elliptical stair (@ this point a roughly sq. floor opening only) so the design professional's card carrying cretin electrician can pinpoint a dead center focal lighting array...4 sheets of plywood laid out 8'x16' (making life for all intents and purposes simplistic, the almost on center ceiling framing. i used a length of wire (@ this stage in life i cant for the life of self remember if it was the distance between the focal points + twice the minor axis...) and some drywall screws. based on euclidian (2 axis) trigonometry (which itself is based on the pathagorian theorum) for any point along the perimeter that sum of distances mathematically defines the curve. to make matters worser, enter the 3d printer 'nurbs' (non uniform rational basis spline) curve, and tweak the ellipse into the 3rd axis call it macaroni (a torriodal elliptical thingie; in other words a calculus equation best forgotten). cant handle the 'math"of it? no problamo - an autocad stand alone license that you will have to install on your hard drive if in fact your pc has enough ram (2x the recoomendated value), is only ~$4,000 last time checked. it pays to be a student of autocad - you can download sample versions new and old, of their proprietary software, save ya all that scullywog riverboat 'gambling'.
Just making my head spin! Need more vodka!!!
@@KevincaronSculpture > bombay 'tuni extra dry here pls.
You could make yrselves two tremel which you could make any circle
That will be a future video.
No string, shoelaces, or cord? Simply use an object smaller in diameter than your projected size, weight it down (such as the proverbial paint can) and by using a scrap piece of wood or whatever, rest your marker against this spacer which in turn sits and moves around the base of the can. Note: When using string on a larger diameter circle be careful it is not too elastic as your circle will not be true.
Great tip and important note. Thank you for watching and posting.
great vid but,
look up the word across, tell me where americans get the 'T' from?
Because a cross looks like a T? 8-)