[Woodworkers] Another goodie from YouTube

[Dave Howerton via Woodworkers]

>my greatest nightmare is discovering an end to YouTube and then I'm driving to Post Falls where I beat the snot outta Dave b'cuz >that's whose fault it is.
First of all, there are several other sites I would end before Youtube.
Secondly, bring beer. And I mean good beer, not that stuff you give to other people...
And C, that didn't turn out too bad for a barnyard carpenter!
Dave 

    On Monday, March 21, 2016 3:36 PM, Joe Johns via Woodworkers <woodworkers at lists.sawdusters.org> wrote:
 

 I ain't ashamed to admit it - I'm a YouTube whore!
Every night I'm out there walking my beat, turning tricks and selling myself to every two-bit clown who did a video on some shop-made tool or some lamebrain idea on a plastic shredder.  It's terrible and someone has to stop me - my greatest nightmare is discovering an end to YouTube and then I'm driving to Post Falls where I beat the snot outta Dave b'cuz that's whose fault it is.
Well, last Friday I was back on my beat and found a video of a center finder.  I watched the first 7 seconds of it and said out loud, "I've been threatening to make one of these for years!"
In the past I used a straight edge and did the corner-to-corner thing...for years!  In fact, every single time I did the corner-to-corner thing I would say, "One of these days I'm gonna make a center finder."
The very next day I went in the shop like a Southern Baptist preacher spouting fire 'n brimstone, "Stand back away from MEEEEEEE you retched machines and tools and watch MEEEEEE make a center finder!"  I swear, I was doing so good with my preaching lightning was zapping everywhere.
Folks, it took me no longer'n 45 minutes to make this.  I ended up using 1/2" MDO for the body.  The blade is a strip of aluminum I cut from a stop sign.  Also, the model is done for you right-handed scum but on mine I flipped the blade (it's also in version 8 for those of you who haven't upgraded to 2015).
The SketchUp file...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27445473/CenterFinder.skp

If you don't have/use SU then I give you these pics of it with dims (the blade is 1 1/4" wide)...


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Joe,
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