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Define Diameter and Anchor Points

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Circle Sunday! Using a framing square to draw a perfect circle! #diy #tools #home #tips

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What happens here

Begin by selecting the desired diameter for your circle. In this demonstration, an 8-inch diameter is chosen. Place the framing square on your workpiece (a piece of wood in the video). Using a hammer, drive two nails into the wood. The first nail should be positioned at the 0-inch mark of the framing square's short arm (tongue) and the second nail at the 8-inch mark of the longer arm (blade). These two nails will act as fixed pivot points for the subsequent drawing process.

Goal: Set up the framing square and establish the two fixed points that define the circle's diameter.

Tools and materials

  • Framing Square — To measure the circle's diameter and guide the marking tool during the drawing process
  • Hammer — To drive the nails into the workpiece
  • Nails — To create two fixed pivot points that the framing square will rotate around
  • Wood scrap — The surface on which the circle will be drawn

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What's up? It's Circle Sundays. Did you know you can draw a circle with a framing square? Let's get after it. All right, take your framing square here and figure out how big of a circle you want. In our case, let's do 8 in. So, we're going to put it right here. And then we're going to go to the 8. We're going to drop a nail right here. So, now take your tongue. Take your tongue and your body. Rest it on each nail like so.

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