Ugh...

So while doing some housework over the past few days, I threw out my back.  I am going to try to do at least a little on the clock during the week.

Helpful photo...

While reading some old posts on the previous time I did the corners, I came across this photo.  Thought it might be a helpful reference to what I am doing.

Corner posts cut

I was able to finish cutting the fourth post today.  Really not too much special to say about this other than I noticed my speed is picking back up.  As I get back into the blacksmithing, my confidence is getting back to where it was.  Hopefully this is a sign of things to come.

The next step is to create a decorative pattern at the top and bottom.  This is just to make things look prettier.  Also, I will be adding a finial to the top of each post.

Just one quick picture.  These are the four posts.  The "B" is just to remind me which is bottom part of the post.

Some progress made today despite being a bit sick.  Second post is cut out and straightened.  Third post is mostly cut out, just had to quit due to setting sun.  I hope to try and get the fourth done tomorrow.  I've set an aggressive goal of having the frame rebuilt by the end of the year.  If I can do that, it gets me back to doing gear work sooner which is what I find really interesting.

Down with the Imperials!

Just a bit of a change.  Up until know when I took photos, I would often put a ruler in the photo to give a sense of scale.  However, being in the US and our country having trouble with common sense, we still use Imperial measurement.  I believe one of only 2 countries that still use it.

I hope that someday others will find this blog to be useful information.  As 95% of the world uses metric, it only makes sense for me to use metric in the photos.  So tonight I ordered a few metric rulers to use in the photos and when I am doing work.  I will move away from any Imperial measurements in this blog.

Aside from making it easier for the majority of the world to use, it also a peeve of mine that US hasn't switched over.  I figure its a bit hypocritical of me to not use metric.

So, any post prior to this one, Imperial measurement.  Any post after this one will be metric.  Sorry for any confusion.  :)

After work today, I fired up the forge and worked on the second post.  The work is pretty much the same as the first post so no need for extra photos or descriptions.  Only problem now is how early it is getting dark.

Imported old blog

Just a quick note here...

In my previous blog documenting the building of my clock, I had used the Xanga website to document the work.  Due to changes at Xanga, I thought the old blog was lost to the nether regions of the Internet.  Thankfully, I was finally able to export the old entries from Xanga.  After a few issues, I was finally able to import them here.  This drastically jumped up this site to about 470 posts.

Anyway, they are now part of the history of this blog.  Kind of sad for me to look at it because I see how between 2008 and 2013, I struggled to get back into doing the project.  Hopefully I can keep things going here.

I did notice some of the older posts are not showing their images.  I will try to get those working later this week.