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well, the last of the scheduled major projects has been started.
today i made hay while the sun shone (expected rain today around 3, it got here around 7), and did it shine, 80 degrees and blue skies for most of today. yesterday i did a lot of the prep work, so that i could do the finessing with a passion. i cut the face frame parts for the clock box and lower case, and smoothed out the arcs of the sides of said face frames. i changed the method of construction, and found that i wasn't that far off to begin with. i wanted to simply butt the sides and top/bottom together, but the woodworker in me said no, that a rabbeted joint would look better, and so it was. i cut the grooves for the glass and the clock face/plywood backer, and discovered that i hadn't taken that into account when i did the sketchup drawing, so i had to adapt the design to the existing conditions. so, instead of 2 seperate hangers going to the supports, there will be one big (double thickness) support going to the supports. i would have gone on to the lower case, but after several hours in direct sunlight (can't get all my vitamind from milk ya know), i decided to call it a day. more to come, as it happens....
today i made hay while the sun shone (expected rain today around 3, it got here around 7), and did it shine, 80 degrees and blue skies for most of today. yesterday i did a lot of the prep work, so that i could do the finessing with a passion. i cut the face frame parts for the clock box and lower case, and smoothed out the arcs of the sides of said face frames. i changed the method of construction, and found that i wasn't that far off to begin with. i wanted to simply butt the sides and top/bottom together, but the woodworker in me said no, that a rabbeted joint would look better, and so it was. i cut the grooves for the glass and the clock face/plywood backer, and discovered that i hadn't taken that into account when i did the sketchup drawing, so i had to adapt the design to the existing conditions. so, instead of 2 seperate hangers going to the supports, there will be one big (double thickness) support going to the supports. i would have gone on to the lower case, but after several hours in direct sunlight (can't get all my vitamind from milk ya know), i decided to call it a day. more to come, as it happens....
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