The Creation of a Turret Clock

Good day, so far.

  Taking a lunch time break and also a break to look at a new CD that just arrived in the mail.  It is a lot of information on how to smelt iron(extract iron from ore).  A future project that I thought would be fun at an SCA event such as Gulf Wars is a multiple day demo of starting with ore and eventually producing some simple tools with the iron that was smelted.  Anyway, I'm getting off track.

  I was able to finish one half of a hinge.  I'm going to head back out and try to finish the other half.  It actually went pretty well.  I tried one technique for making the hinge which didn't come out like I wanted.  Tried a second way and that was fine.  I also punched the holes for the nails.  I'm not worried about perfectly centering the nail holes as the nail heads will not be centered on the nail shaft.  When I go to put the nails in I can rotate the nails to make everything look nice.  I went ahead and blackened the hinge with oil to protect it from rust.