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James Martin's avatar

Love mine: from high school drafting class in the late 60s. “Made in West Germany”!!

Jim Mitchell's avatar

I needed to replace my green ones -splits in some of the circles - this is a no brainer. Thanks for the tip!!!

Brian's avatar
2dEdited

I avoid buying from Amazon whenever possible. If you want to avoid Amazon, you can find these on eBay for few bucks more, FYI.

Eric Tuominen's avatar

A set that has French curves and ellipses https://a.co/d/0hTHCFqO

Eric Tuominen's avatar

I should mention that the link goes to the 3 template Tamaki set, not the 2 template Mr Pen for $6.

Eric Tuominen's avatar

I bought a set yesterday and the arrived in less than 24 hours. Very nice. Those degree has marks on the circles could also be used to center a circle on the end of square stock - just make your diagonals to find center and line them up on those lines. Mine came with a small template that includes small circles, hexagons, triangles, arrows, rectangles, squares, and best of all a 6" rule on one edge. So there's lots of uses my imagination can come up with at the drafting table and on the work itself. On the downside, for the large circle template, the outside corners are marked as radii. 3/4", 7/8", 1", and 1 1/8", but they are all cut at 1". So I would recommend checking yours for accuracy. For me I'll use a section of the appropriate circle if I need to draw something from a radius. All in all pretty nice for only $7.

Eric Tuominen's avatar

Typing on a phone is just asking for trouble. Sorry for the typos. Hopefully you can fill in the blanks

Steve Hoare's avatar

Yes, I have a set, or 1 template, a set of circles in my compendium of tools, they are as you say very useful, I see the millimetres are creeping in everywhere, even on your circle template, I kid you there.

Randall Warren's avatar

The Mr. Pen 2-template set you feature is still available and for only $6.

John Byer's avatar

And their stuff always comes with a handwritten note!

Christopher Schwarz's avatar

Hey John! When are you going to restock your etsy store? Daddy needs a setup block for travel.....

John Byer's avatar

You’re an addict, sir. Let me shoot you an email a little later this morning!

Christopher Schwarz's avatar

Everything must be 35°.

John Byer's avatar

I know what you like, daddy.