The Creation of a Turret Clock

Some thoughts on design of the brazier,

  When I first came up with this particular design, I knew of a potential problem.  With eight uprights converging near the base, they will be very close at the base.  This will not really allow for additional upright pieces.  However, at the outer part of the brazier, they will be close to a foot apart.  Since this would be holding a campfire, that is not necessarily a good thing.

  I knew this would be a possibility so in addition to the 8 upright pieces, there will be 8 additional shorter pieces that will be about the same shape as the upright pieces except that they will taper off as the approach the center.  So the upper part of the brazier will have 16 pieces while at the center and legs, there will only be 8.

  Also, in the center of the brazier will be about an 8" wide circular gap.  This would let a lot of the burning material fall to the ground.  I will be placing a few support pieces in the center of the brazier to prevent this.  They will be simple "L" shapes and just help make the center area a little more solid.

  Overall, I will be making 40 rivets from 1/2" stock.  Not looking forward to that but not a big deal.  Just a bit on the repetitive side.

  My final challenge will be to figure out how to best peen the rivets that will be in the narrow part of the brazier.  I will probably need help with all of the rivets simply because it will be difficult to hold the brazier and peen the rivets at the same time due to the size of the brazier.