I still have a Leroy set and rapidograph pens, triangles, straight-edges, French curves, and a ton of other drafting stuff. Even have some Mylar sheets in the map cabinet; and yes, they'll cut you wicked. Used to get dizzy working the diazo machine.

Mrs. P. is a fan of bumwad to this day.

Learned old school drafting from an exacting master. He got mad if you used a ruler wrong - always measure from and mark at the zero bar!! The nice thing about CAD is not having ink stained fingers at the end of the day.

Thanks for the quote, I'd never heard that before.

I might still know how to use a sun compass, but it has been a long time that I had to calculate the equation of time.