06-24-2016, 10:18 AM
Greeting to all :)
My first post on here !! :)
I've been building ths 'Dark Lady Clock' by Brian Hogger (http://briansworkshop.weebly.com/dark-lady.html) the last year or so as my first trip into metalworking :)
So I have had a long road including having to build a dividing head (this took 3 attempts!) and all the tools etc + having to learn using the lathe and milling machine pretty much from scratch.
I'm a fair way through and I've completed the first few chapters including the making of the main wheel assembly, main arbor, plates, second, hour wheel and escapement. I have also made the Depthing tool.
BUT I just cannot get a good even blue of the main plates ?? Every flippin' time I 'over cook the heating process and one end of the plate turns from blue to grey?? I just don't know how
Brian got such an even finish - unless he used some form of Kiln.
I can easily blue the small component and once I have made the two pinions and bushes I'm ready to 'plant the train' - If I have managed to blue the main plates.
Any advice from you learned members ?? :) :)
All the best
John
My first post on here !! :)
I've been building ths 'Dark Lady Clock' by Brian Hogger (http://briansworkshop.weebly.com/dark-lady.html) the last year or so as my first trip into metalworking :)
So I have had a long road including having to build a dividing head (this took 3 attempts!) and all the tools etc + having to learn using the lathe and milling machine pretty much from scratch.
I'm a fair way through and I've completed the first few chapters including the making of the main wheel assembly, main arbor, plates, second, hour wheel and escapement. I have also made the Depthing tool.
BUT I just cannot get a good even blue of the main plates ?? Every flippin' time I 'over cook the heating process and one end of the plate turns from blue to grey?? I just don't know how
Brian got such an even finish - unless he used some form of Kiln.
I can easily blue the small component and once I have made the two pinions and bushes I'm ready to 'plant the train' - If I have managed to blue the main plates.
Any advice from you learned members ?? :) :)
All the best
John