Hello happy DIYers and woodworkers, me and here with Hartwood Art. What if you need to find the center of a circle on something like a doggo for a raised theater or such? Well, there are a lot of ways to find the center of a circle, but I'm going to show you the easiest way by far using nothing other than a square and a pencil. So let's dive in. Now you can do this on your wood, but I do it on a piece of paper first just to make sure that your technique is accurate. So one of the tricks is with your pencil, make sure you've got enough lead out. So that's what's touching the lip of what's tracing. You don't want the edge of your pencil on it because as you go around it, your angle may change and that would affect your accuracy. And accuracy does matter here. So we're going to set that aside. And the next thing we need to do is draw two cords. That's a straight line touching two points on the circle and we need two of those and we need to put them at a pretty wide angle. So let me show you a tip with that because what we need to do is find the midpoint of that cord. So let's make that easy on ourselves. We're going to come near the top of this and I'm going to put the point of my pencil right on the circle and bring the edge of the square right into that point. And carefully into that point, I must be on something on my work bench there. Here right into that point. And then I'm going to gently spin this thing around until it hits another point on the circle of something that's easy for me to divide by two. This just happens to be six for me. That's super easy to divide. So I'm going to draw that cord and then mark the midpoint and accuracy does count. So get right over it to mark that. Now we need to do another one. And again, I'm going to start at the top so we have a pretty wide angle on this and I'm going to go ahead and eyeball it so I don't have to spin it so much. That's pretty close. Put my pencil right there on the circle, bring in the corner and spin that, woo, I eyeball that pretty good. It's right on the six again because that was easy for me so I'm going to use it. And then I'm going to mark the midpoint on that again. Now the next thing we need to do is draw perpendicular lines through these cords. That should be really easy. And here's the beauty of doing it this way. When you get this thing lined up perfectly on the inside of your square, then your midpoint is going to be on the circle. So you know for sure that you've got it dead square laid out. Then we'll do this one. Get it all lined up here. There's our midpoint. Draw a straight through it. And that is the center of our circle. Now you can check the accuracy of this if your circle is not too big and you happen to have a compass and you can put the point of that compass right on your center point and then adjust it to find the radiance and then scribe your circle. And it should be exactly what you trace. Now if it's off a little bit either your edge of your pencil was touching what you traced, your compass may be on or to the accuracy of drawing your line. So practice a little bit, get it perfect and transfer that technique to the wood. Well that's it. I sure hope you've enjoyed this quick tutorial on the easiest way to find the center of the circle. And come on over and visit me at HeartwoodArt.com and see other easy shop builds like a raised dog bow feeder and I'll see you in the shop.