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A compass tells you magnetic north, not true north. You'll have to add or subtract depending on your location from magnetic north (which wanders from year to year).

Here's a site to generate the needed dimensions and positions automatically so you can verify that you've got yours right:

http://analemmatic.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/sundial.pl

It makes a PDF of plans specific for your latitude and longitude.

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