Tool for cutting circles?

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JBDF
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Tool for cutting circles?

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I came across this while looking at a blog and was wondering where one would get something like it?

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Olfa has'em, for one.
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Post by USS Atlantis »

Hobbico makes one almost exactly like that

http://www.hobbico.com/tools/hcar0230.html

I picked mine up at my Local Hobby Store
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I have a compass with interchangeable points. You can put a point on both arms and scribe circles. I have access to a laser cutter that does mine....but a heavy investment just to cut circles!
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I think I've owned one like the hobbico version before but seem to remember I had some issues with it slipping and flexing. I'll have to hit the hobby store tonight and see if they carry anything.
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Post by Zen-Builder »

OLFA also makes a great circle cutter and can the extended to make some big circles.

HTH.
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