Provided tool-kits & materials for each participant (in metallic "wine-bottle" gift bag): A four oz ball-pein hammer, a two-inch C-clamp, a scriber, a set of steel figure punches (1/8"), a six-inch wing-dividers, an aluminum bench block (2"x2"x1/2"), a six inch stainless steel ruler/straight edge, a set of five needle files of various cross-section, a center punch, safety glasses, a 12 inch strip of one-inch course sanding cloth, a 4"-5" 16 g pre-cut brass quarter-circle, plumb weights with string, two sights, screws for sights, and small brass squares to practice tool use.

Group tools: four “eggbeater” drills, ten each 1/16” and 1/8” drills, four sets of letter stamps for adding names etc. (two each 1/8” and 1/16”), two pin-vices for holding drills for cleaning hole, misc. long-nose pliers and cutters for working with line.

The workshop: For this venue each participant constructed a working brass simple (nautical style) quadrant of brass using provided tool-kits and materials. After some brief instructions the 20 participants began by punching a mark for the vertex of the instrument and then laying out the arc with a dividers and then using “original division” to lay out the scale to 15°. After trisecting the 15° segments by approximation with the dividers the room erupted into a cacophony of banging and pounding as the members used hammers and figure punches to mark the major divisions at five degree intervals.