I completed 4 tasks today on various areas of the hood. Made what I call hood glides to restrain the hood from an inadvertent topple. I'll show you how this works in a later stage. Rounded-off the inside dial mask edges to give it a more polished look. Cut the curve in the back-plate. It now sits in the back arch. And, I trimmed the back arch to accommodate the back-plate wings. Tomorrow I will add the back-plate wings to allow the back-plate to follow the contour of the hood. Then you will understand this step. Fortunately, I believe I already have the planed 1/2" stock to make this happen. I will need to once again take the back-plate off of the back so I can then biscuit, glue and clamp-up the wings to the back-plate. I will likely also sand all of the hood pieces so that they are ready for glue-up [None of the hood/mask pieces are currently glued]. The hood assembly will definitely be tricky and I'm thinking that I will need to glue it all together at one time. Definitely starting to look like a grandfather clock! Click on photos below to enlarge. Enjoy!
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June 2016
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