I saw no oval, but as many have seen it, it's okay!

what if you don't want holes in your surface from nails?

Thank You Mr. Scotty for the “Old School” pattern drafting trick. That would save a lot of time in the construction of an oval of any size. Keep up the good educational and informative videos. Have A Productive Day! 🧰🔨🪚

It's not an oval. It's an ellipse.

Worked great

Already lost, what's a substrate ohhh google

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO! I am making papier mache frames and my ovals were coming out pretty bad. Now I can do it!

Brilliant!

It would be easier to see on video if you did it with a darker colored piece of string and used a darker pen/marker to draw with. It is hard to see in this video because of the colors.

thank you for sharing Sir, so simple and easy tutorial, i can do many ovals now for my projects❤❤❤❤

Thank you !!!

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Man is quite clearly a genius. Thanks from the UK.

Haven't tried it yet, but I am a bit confused... Doesn't the string go further than the nail and therefore isn't it "longer" than 42 inches? Maybe I am missing something?

Signs Biscotti

I don’t understand the point of the string and the nails at all

Thanks so much for sharing this. So easy. Well done your dad xx

Looks impressive, but the line you drew was way OUTSIDE the pins and therefore the oval was not 42inches but a lot more. So while I've understood about measuring and pins, this isn't going to work for me in measuring out my lawn. Shame.

Very neat- if you do something like this again, please use a colored string or substrate for visual contrast. Thanks

Hats off to you and your father, Scotty. You helped us overcome an obstacle so we can complete a project. Thank you.

Magic. :-) Thanks!!!

Legend. Thank you. 45 years and never knew this trick! Works great

Love this! TY. You make this so simple!

Very good . Thank you

Can hardly see what he's talking about.

This is why we need the lightning network at massive adoption....so I could send this guy $5 for helping me out! Thank you!

I understand the concept and placement of the nails and their measurements but this does not create a perfect oval. I hold my pencil as best I can at 90 degrees to the plywood as I try to trace my oval. I can tell it's not perfect because as I move the pencil over a previous area I already traced the pencil line/shape starts changing. I've used two different strings, a carpenter's pencil (which I don't think is a good idea) and a regular student's #2 pencil (a better option, I think) and the oval keeps changing size and shape. Not to mention, both string options I tried using keep getting stuck in the tip of the pencil or snap through altogether. I'm trying to make oval rings out of 3/8" plywood at 36" wide and 21" deep that are two inches thick. In other words, inner widest circumference is 34" and outer widest circumference is 36". It's very lopsided; far from perfect.

Excellent...thanks for posting!

Ah!! This is wonderful!! Thank you so much!!

Thank you so much

Couldn’t see the drawing at all With the bright surface and the angle the picture was taken from, the picture didn’t show up

Thanks i almost was going to buy a compass (math is hard). Appreciate your tutorial :)

Thank you so much for this - really helpful, and it worked beautifully, so now I have a perfect large template for a glass top for a table!😃

Thanks for this instructional video!👍😎

Another useless idiot who just draws an elipse without showing how he came to the major, minor axis n focal points= F

When is verita tool gonna make an ajustable, 6 foot long elipse tool with center pencil hole, and slifing, locking screw, with ajustments every 1/64, on each side

Thank you ever so much for this!

Thanks for your video Scotty! That was way easier than all of the other videos I had watched on making an oval for my diy project. 👍🏻

How would you use this technology to draw an oval on paper. Any idea on how to create the fixed points on paper? I'll probably figure it out before anyone sees this. The video was helpful and makes an oval so simplistic.

Camera focus very far👎

Super

Very well demonstrated.

What is this shit with several minutes of ads?! I want RU-vid!

I can’t see any of your lines!

Wow! That was short and easy. Thank you Sir for sharing that to us! I was wondering how to do it..I was so complex until I saw this video.

Just what I needed to finish up my project. Great job of explaining the process!! 😎👍🏻

absolutely brilliant

Truly impressive, Thanks

Thank you i can make big size 17500x6000mm

Blown away by how simple but accurate this is!