The Creation of a Turret Clock

Started brazier,

  A good day of blacksmithing.  I tempered some tools I had made during a previous session at the forge.  After that, I decided I wanted to go ahead and start the brazier that I have been wanting to make.  To start, I needed to make a drift.  A drift is meant to open up a hole in metal so that it is a particular shape and size.  I needed the drift to match the rivets that will be used to hold the brazier together.

  The brazier will essentially be 8 upright pieces and 3 rings to hold them together.  I wanted to make one template piece to make sure everything will come out okay.  The template piece is shown below.  The right side of the pic is the bottom of the brazier and the left side is the top.  The holes are for the rings to bind the brazier to together.  Because of the use of the drift, the metal bulges around the hole.



I was originally going to put fleurs on the top but that was vetoed...  :)