The Creation of a Turret Clock

On schedule...

  Just as I hoped, I finished the forge work on the first corner post.  I am annealing one end now in preperation for doing filing and cutting for the decorative work.  I hope to pick up some better files and some new hacksaw blades tomorrow.

  Also, purchased a swage block yesterday.  A swage is like an anvil with a major exception.  An anvil is essentially a flat hard piece of metal to hammer against.  A swage block has shapes cut into it allow different shaping for metal such as cylinders, dishing, spoons, etc...