Summary:
The menorah shown here a bit after the start of the first day.
Since my family’s Menorah is still at home in Santa Fe, I decided to make a new one out of brass to use in Chicago. I liked last year’s 3D printed Menorah, but that felt a bit too impermanent, so this year I decided to go with something made out of brass. After poking around on google photos for a bit I settled on a simple 3/4in brass bar with 1in spacing.
The shamash is offset by one space in the drill pattern, and by 100thou vertically to place it on a different plane. The other holes are drilled to a depth of 0.25in and all the holes are drilled to 5/16in* with a light hand chamfer.
I originally used a hand-filed finish on all sides, but switched to scotch-bright since that makes the piece easier to clean up after boiling off any excess wax.
Fabrication Steps:
Hacksaw the stock to rough length.
Hand file the stock to dimension and squareness.
Drill and chamfer the holes.
*This seems to be a pretty standard size, although I did have to do the melted wax trick to get this year’s candles to stay upright.
Filing the stock flat/square:
Drilling and chamfering:
