I'm embarrassed to write that I haven't posted here since 2009. You all know the story. Moved across the country, quit my job, started a business with my wife, worked crazy hours while raising our son. However, I didn't stop building furniture this past eight years. I crafted a bunch of stuff for the house, a full bedroom set for my son, gifts for friends, etc. But this is the first piece I've made for myself in quite some time. I saw the article by Glen Huey in PWW December (#173), but it's taken me this long to get around to it.
I had just finished up a project and thought this would be a good quick piece I could finish quickly. I had forgotten how time intensive clocks can be. This is my second clock, and the detail work surprised me yet again.
It's made from QSWO I had leftover from a prior project. The door is book matched. Hand cut pinned through mortise and tenons. Hand cut dovetails. Raised panel back. I made the leaded glass window myself. Hinges are Brusso. It has a mechanical Hermle 131-070 bim bam movement. The dial is copper that I etched with ferric chloride and filled with paint. The dial design comes from the best photo I could find of an original dial that I had vectorized and cut on a vinyl resist for the etching.
Finish schedule:
- Ammonia fumed with 20% ammonia for about 6 hours
- BLO
- superblond shellac 1lb
- glazed with Minwax Hickory gel stain
- superblond shellac 1lb
- three coats Pratt and Lambert 38 wiping varnish
- Liberon Black Bison Wax