Between yesterday and today I got in more blacksmithing time then I have in years. It felt good but I'm sore now and I'm sure I'll pay for it with a cramp in the middle of the night.
So what did I work on? Unfortunately, redoing two of the corner posts. I will chalk these mistakes up to getting back to blacksmithing. One post I messed up because I punched it incorrectly. It caused the mortise on the post to be off by a few millimeters. I probably could have covered it up and most people would not have noticed. However, I really want to make sure the frame is as square as possible so I got rid of that post. The other post was a really, really stupid mistake that does not need to be documented.
So today I set about re-cutting two of the posts. Things went relatively quickly. However, about the time it started getting dark, my hammer arm began to have a few cramps. Rather than mess up the posts with a bad hammer shot, I decided it was best to quit.
Feels really good to be doing this again.
A chronicle of my attempts to create an early clock using only traditional techniques.
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