True to the time period of when 347 was designed she will be outfitted with an original Danforth Skylight Constellation compass in brass. Absolute in Portugal are in the process of designing a bronze pedestal for this beautiful compass. The vendor who sold me the compass claims that the parts were from an old inventory of spare parts from the 1930’s that was assembled recently. I suspect it is really a compass based on parts manufactured a lot more recently than that. Danforth ceased production of this model in 2009. Fortunately the design has not been changed for a very long time, at least not since 1947, so this is about as close to an original one can come and who knows maybe the parts really were old spare parts?

                          Manufacturing of the wood male plugs for the bronze cast

                          mold makin

                        Bronze cast parts