Some progress

No pictures today but I did work on the corners for just a bit.  The bottom holes are all punched out.  I will try to get to the top holes some time this week.  So, getting things going again.  Hopefully I can keep it going.

Back to work...

Wow...  It really has been 4 months since I've updated this.  With my mother's passing, things were disrupted and it took me longer than I expected to get back into the mood to do hobby stuff.

Anyone, today I actually worked on the clock.  When I last did work, I was working on the corner posts.  I had messed up on one of the pieces and had to remake it.  So today in addition to other work on the forge, I got to work on the clock for a bit.  I finished up some filing and straightening on the piece and it is caught up now with the other three pieces.

I am going to set a goal for myself that tomorrow I at the very least should get all of the holes punched on the posts.  If I can do that, I will feel like I've made real progress.

Here is a picture of the 4 pieces.  The one of the left is the one I worked on today.  Notice a bit of surface rust on the pieces.  It is there to remind me that I've been away too long.

No progress

Due to the passing of my mother, I have not gotten much done in the past month.  I hope to get back to this project within the next week.

No need to fear...

I haven't stopped on this project.  I just had to take care of doing some major stuff with the house.  I expect to back up and working this weekend.

Good weekend.

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.

Back to work.

This evening marked a return to working on the clock.   Although I was able to do some work on the clock, my primary objective for the evening was proving that I could work after sundown.

I don't have a real "shop" to work in.  My shop is a garage that I have to put my equipment in the driveway before I can work.  Because of the time change in the USA, It means that sundown comes very early.

Tonight I finally utilized some work lights that I bought many years back.  The Halogen lights work perfectly and I was able to work for several hours after sundown.  This evening I did the some hole punching and drifiting on the corner posts.  One of the posts was not quite centered but I was happy with the other three.  I may redo the 4th post tomorrow.  Here is a look at the 4 corner posts punched and drifted.  The punched hole is the bottom part of the corner posts.

Please notice the small "cat toy" om this picture.  A red mouse is at the top of the photo.  This is the result of moving some items from the house and one of the cat toys falling on the yard.

No work this weekend

Partly to remind myself to keep working on the clock, I'm putting entries when I cannot work on it just to keep myself honest.  Going out of town to visit family so no work until at least Tuesday.  However, with the holidays coming up, I am hoping to get a lot done then.