Today, in just a few hours, I was able to make the horizontal bars for the long axis of the clocks. This involved cutting the bars and making the tenons on the bars. Although the shoulders on the tenons are not as clean as I wanted, they still work. It was fun to temporarily place the bars in the corner posts. I suddenly had something that resembles the frame of the original clock. Here are some pictures of the frame as it looks now. The piece of wood was to keep the frame upright while snapping the photos.
If the frame looks slightly off square its from having to angle things to get it to stand upright. The tenons will be trimmed down later. Eventually the ends of the tenons will be peined over to hold the frame together. This will not be done until the clock is almost complete. As a note, I didn't notice until after I took the pictures but it was upside down. Not that it matters at this stage.
Really feels like this is going to happen. I may still have another year or so to complete but it is moving forward now.
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