Clock 6

Working With Metal Continued

I added a small chamfer to the back of each stainless piece to act as a lead-in when it's time to install them. This will help keep them straight and won't shear any wood when the go in.

These measure .400" long and are ready to be installed. Now it's time to work with some brass.

I cut off some pieces from the angle brass and then cut them once again to what you see below. The brass thickness is already 1/8" which means I don't have to machine that dimension.

Here I'm cutting my pieces to about 1/2" wide, which is oversize.

Next I placed four at a time in my vise to machine them to size.

Here I'm cutting each one to 1.500" long, which will match the slot length. Now I need to put a full radius on each end.

This is the tool I'll be using to cut a radius on each end of my brass pieces. This is called a corner-rounding end mill.

This end mill has a 1/16" radius and once I machine both sides, this will give me my full radius on my brass pieces.

Here you can see my brass piece that has my desired radius on it. Once I deburr both sides, it will fit my slots in the clock face.

Here is what my finished brass piece looks like after deburring.

As you can see, it has a full radius on both ends. These came out as expected and didn't take that long. Now it's time to work on some wood again.

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