Fun time
Well, Frances is still closing on the house but hopefully it will just be a tropical storm by the time it gets close. Anyway, tonight I took stock of the shape of my shop and I came to a conclusion. I need more tools before I can go any further on the clock. So, I started by making a better punch then my exisiting one. I'm making a punch so I can use it to make new tongs (I have 4 tongs but they all could stand to be remade). I was amazed by how quickly I made the punch. Even though the punch is fairly simple forging, it suprised me that even with cutting the metal to length, smoothing it, shaping it, grinding it and starting the annealing, it only took me about 45 minutes.
Once the tongs are made, it will make it easier to make other tools like punches, chisels, hardies, etc... Anyway, once I started the punch annealing I did some cleanup work on post #4. I still need to make a steel run and hopefully that will happen sometime next week.
A chronicle of my attempts to create an early clock using only traditional techniques.
Friday, September 3, 2004
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