The properties that make walnut ideal for wooden clocks, fine grained and hard, make it hard work and time consuming to sand, but once it is smooth the surface finish is beautiful Today, I sanded the other half of the torsional pendulum, mated the two halves, sanded the joint and installed it on the clock.
Although constructing the torsional pendulum is very time consuming, in my opinion, it really changes and improves the dynamic impact of the clock.
There are only a few components still to made, the hemispherical end caps that I use to cover all the brass collars. I plan to construct these small fiddly parts tomorrow.