Update time! Next step in the plan was to mill off a flat spot on each side of the handle so I would have two parallel surfaces to work with. Then drill the pivot hole and cut the lock lever notch.
First side was easy enough because I could see what I was doing. I could not unclamp it and turn it around because when I cut the other side it would not be parallel.
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Then the locking lever notch gets cut.
Now heres where my confidence took the bonehead hit! The part above the sword of shiva was not supposed to be cut through to the spine. ^%$%#$%^ son^$^& a B…. How the heck am I gonna fix that?
Once my nerves calmed and I added a few more four letter words to my dictionary I figured out something that might work. Ill reshape the frame to cover it up on the sides but I don’t want to cover up the Devanagari script so here’s the new shape I am forced to use. Another cardboard and superglue model later and I think it will work. The only problem now is the top of the spine will show these notches? Hmmmm? May have to extend the lock lever?
It’s the dogbone mod for a bonehead move. It has to cover my screw up opened and closed so I had to add some frame to both sides without adding to the middle where the script is. Im actually starting to like it after all so Ill have to go with it. I even considered doing the other end dogbone style to match but after several sketches decided to abandon that idea.
After a depressing screw up something came in the mail that picked up my spirits and got me back on track for the next stage. I got a triangle (minus one side) box in the mail with some metal that might as well be gold about now. Bookie that’s not what I ordered man!
I almost want to just polish that like it is and hang it on the wall. That’s going to be doubled up and make a bolster as well. Your awesome brother! Can’t thank you enough!
Today was time to sneak in the machine shop and cut the pivot hole. I wanted to drill it out to ¼” since all the hardware available is ¼” or smaller. So much for that thought because everything in the shop is metric. Crap! Ok 6mm will be. I have a 6mm reamer so that will work and I have pins etc all in metric so that will have to do.
OK All done and all well. Yeah right! When I slipped the 6mm shaft in the hole it wasn’t square. Dangit all! Here is where I should have milled off more room on the tang so my hold down clamps would have been square. Oh well live and learn! Looks like I need to widen the flat spot I milled down previously on the tang a bit further down reclamp it flat this time and drill out a larger diameter and or press an insert into it. The inside diameter is 6mm and I already have a pin for that so there! Ill have to drill and tap the pin and cut the insert but I think it will work (till the next screw up). If I knew what I was doing this would be a success story but sorry it aint yet
Well theres a crooked hole a perfect notch and another hole that might get in the way later? Yall dont laugh too loud.