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WEEK ENDING JULY 10:
Mind power! That’s what this week’s been all about. I need to get a good, clear image of this clock so it will all come together. Spent a lot of time looking at photos of clocks, deciding what I like and don’t like about certain ones. Found a number of suppliers of clock kits. They’ll sell me as much clock as I want — everything from basic clockworks to the whole kit. I chose an 8-inch dial face with a moving moon dial on top.
It’s important to note that the size of the dial face is a key piece of information. For example, the overall size and radius of the dial face determines the size and shape of the dial face frame, the door, the scroll board and the size of the clock housing. In fact, it determines the size of the entire hood assembly and therefore, the proportions of the entire clock! Knowing this information, I can get started on the scale drawings.
I’ve decided that I want to keep the overall height of the clock at just slightly taller than the height of a typical door (about 6-feet, 8-inches). That way, it’ll be a little shorter than a classic 7-foot clock, but will still look good in a typical American home with 8 foot ceilings.
I figure I’ll need about 30 board feet of lumber to build the clock, but I’ve decided to buy about 30% more than what I’ll actually need to cover for bad wood, extra pieces for making set-ups and, of course, mistakes. I’ve pretty much decided to build the clock out of cherry, but checked on the price of walnut, just out of curiosity. WOW! Sure glad I chose cherry!
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