double ended caliper pattern

Re: double ended caliper pattern *LINK*

Raymond Overman in SC

>You would want to make a rabbit in the center so that they would line up correctly I would think. Here's some fancy ones.


http://www.turnedwood.com/tools&jigs.html#Caliper

Re: double ended caliper pattern

Barry Irby

>Andy, I made a set that look like a giant pair of scissors. Mine have about a six inch "Reach". They look as if someone bent the blades of the scissors into a cirle. The trick is that the handles are exactly as long as the blades. The hanldes line up with each other when they are closed so that if the tips are a quarter inch apart the offset in the handles is the same. Mine are made of quarter inch plexiglass. I warmed it enough to make the tips meet. I'm planning to make a bigger set. My son and I both really like them. Because you hold them like scissors you can run them down the wall of a bowl and "feel" the change in thickness as well as watch the change at the handle. I also make it a point to set the cole jaws with enough space between them so that I can slip them in between and feel the thckness of the foot and bottom of a bowl. You could make them any size and shape you wanted. The only critical dimention is that the distance from the pivot has to be equal on both ends. I will post a pic if anyone is interested.