Clocks

[jasonl]

Helen's

Hers is a 1982 or 3 Westclox. Still working after all these years. I call it the "infernal clock" because it makes this high pitched screech when it goes off.

 

[parunner58]

Here is a picture of my big clock, a Hand made Grand fathers clock, Christmas gift from my in-laws. The story behind it is, right after we bought our house in August of 1984, we were visiting them on a Sat morning in November and my father in-law asked if I could help him in his work shop holding some molding on a clock he was making for a lady he worked with. He told me she bought the wood and the works and he was making for her. The case is 6.5 feet of solid mahogany and the works are Mason and Sullivan, I believe they are outside of Boston MA. It plays the Westminster chime every 15 minutes, the face has the night sky dial on the top. They way he got it into our house, was the weekend before Christmas, my wife was over her mom's and her dad and his friend were loading the clock in his station wagon. I was home washing dishes, I looked out the kithcen window and he pulled to the back of the house with and asked me to help carry it in. I was so suprised. Later on my wife came home and was just as suprised.

My father in-law is a wood worker as a a hobby and collects clocks, his grandfathers clock is 7 feet tall with a glass front. He can take a picture of a piece of furniture in a store and make it from scratch. he has made a lot of our furniture in the house and in his. He has a collection of over 20 Black Forest Cookoo clocks.

BTY: The clock is not leaning, I am a bad photographer

Mike

 

[petek]

Beautiful clock Mike and all that much nicer you know the maker makes it a real heirloom. My other half has only just began trying woodwork out in the garage. I told him to make me a birdhouse and brought some books home from the library and lo and behold he's out there making me one. I'm not allowed to see it yet, it's for my birthday. Well just this morning we were talking and I mentioned it was a shame my uncle is no longer alive because he was an excellent woodworker and was probably like your FIL, could make anything out of wood and as good or better than "store bought" I was mentioning the desk my aunt still has that we have to go see, he made it in the 60's, all beautiful inlays and marquetry you just can't find anywhere anymore. I unfortunately never developed past the clothes peg recipe holder I made for mom in Gr 8 shop LOL