So today I started remaking the actual finials for the corner posts of the clock. Yesterday I made the bolster plate but that really was not used today. The importance of the bolster will come in to play a bit later. But anyway, the start of today was very similar to yesterday's work up to a point.
I started with scoring a line around a bar of 2.5 cm (1 inch) bar stock.
Using different fullering tools, I put a curve shape around the bar.
In this photo, I have cut off one end of the bar. I will actually get two finials out of this.
Using a hacksaw, I cut at the thinnest point, that frees one finial.
I then hot cut the remaining finial from the bar. These are the two finials as well as the bolster plate that will help me make the hole in the finials. As a reminder even though I am in the US, I will be attempting to make all comments and photos using metric to give it a more world wide relevance. So in this photo, that is a metric carpenters square for scale.
That was it for tonight. I was actually in the mood to make the other two finials but daylight was fading so those will have to wait. After I make the other two, I will use a square punch and the bolster to create a mounting hole in the finial but that will also have to wait.
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