[Note: The following Web sites are no longer accessible (as of SEP '03).]
You Can Make a Sundial!
http://www.grex.org/~jh/dial/

Equatorial Sundial
http://www.grex.org/~jh/dial/#eq

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[Old title:] Customize and download your equatorial sundial now.
[New title:] Customize Your Equatorial Sundial
http://axum.tripod.com/eqmotto.html

Enter your choice of mottos (and more) below. 

Motto for first side: FCPS Equatorial Sundial
Motto for second side: FCPS Equatorial Sundial

Difference from standard meridian: (decimal degrees, like -5.345) [+2.0]
(optional) [Submit Query]

For assembly instructions, please see:
[inaccessible] http://www.cyberspace.org/~jh/dial/eqinst.html

If you have the old version you should download the new and improved
version now! Find it in both PostScript and PDF (and several other dials)
at my sundial page.

[ASSEMBLY]
Assembly

Fold the paper lengthwise along the printed centerline. If you are careful
you can get the crease right on the line. I hold it up to a light and make
sure the dial faces on the two sides are lined up before I crease it. You
may find it helpful to score the fold lines. An empty ball point pen and a
straight edge work great. If you are using a dot matrix printer the
compression from the pins helps the paper fold nicely.

Next fold the paper on the other line. If you are in the northern
hemisphere you'll fold it so the latitude scale is on the outside.

Take an ordinary sharpened pencil and poke it through the paper in the
center of the dial. This is the most difficult part of assembly. If you
take your time and work at it you can get the pencil right through the
center. You can cut away the excess paper to make the hole neater if you
wish.

Poke a thumbtack through the latitude scale at your latitude. Slide the
paper along the pencil until they form a right angle and then stick the
eraser onto the thumbtack. For greatest accuracy use a pencil with a new
eraser and carefully put the tack into the eraser right at the edge. If
you wish you can put tape or glue at the hole where the pencil passes
through. This is especially helpful if the hole gets enlarged through
wear.

[TELLING TIME]
Telling Time

You are now ready to tell time. Place the sundial somewhere in the
sunshine so that it is facing north. That is, the pencil should be
pointing north (really the pencil should point almost directly at Polaris,
the "North Star.") Be sure the paper is perpendicular to the pencil. Read
the time.

Find other sundial's at my sundial page.