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Hi everyone. I'm a new member here but having been sawing occasionally for many years. My name is Kevin and I'm from spring hill Florida. I have always been mostly attracted to making clocks. I am about to start on my biggest ever, and plan on it being a full size grandfather type clock, so I'll be busy for quite a while. Nice to meet you all!

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Welcome to our asylum!

 

 

As you probably deduced from the replies above, we all like to see someone else's work. You have joined a bunch of addicts--SAWDUST! Everyone here has had sawdust in their favorite beverage setting in the shop!

 

I think we have become used to cold coffee with a layer f sawdust on top and drink it anyway!

 

I claim the title of the oldest working saw--- Maybe you can take it???

 

A 1952 YES! 1952 --- Craftsman that still works. Very limited as to thickness of the material it will handle; but was always that way!

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Thanks for the welcome everyone. I never got to the point where I needed to invest in a better saw, so all my work previously was done on a cheap craftsman, although I recently picked up a Ryobi variable speed at a yard sale. It's not much of an improvement, but maybe I'll be able to invest in a nice saw in the future. Almost all of the clocks I built in the past were presented to others as Christmas gifts, with the exception of one, which unfortunately is in the pocession of my ex-wife! The only example I now have is one that I recently retreived from my mother, as she mounted it poorly after a move and it crashed to the floor and needs repairs. It's one of those manchester clocks and I'm hoping to find where the patterns are so I can remake the shattered part. Of course she didn't save all the broke pieces, so I can't use them for patterns. Oh well.

 

I'll be starting that grandfather clock soon and will post pics as the work progesses. Thanks again everyone for the warm welcome!

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Welcome to The Village which is the home to many world wide and friendly scrollers. I hope you find time to check in often so that we can all get to know you better. It sounds like an amazingly large project you are tackling. Do you have any idea how long you expect that project to take you to complete it ?   I also hope that you show us the progress you are making as you go along. We all love to see other peoples work. Take time to explore everything here and help yourself to some of the great patterns that people have donated for our use as we please. Hope to see you around,

 

Dick

heppnerguy

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It sounds like an amazingly large project you are tackling. Do you have any idea how long you expect that project to take you to complete it ?

 

 I haven't decided on which grandfather clock to build yet. Originally I was going to do the one at wildwood simply because it was the only pattern I could find.

 

http://www.wildwooddesigns.com/Grandfather-Clock-Plan-P2430.aspx

 

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Now I'm finding others and I am leaning towards this one at theartfactory..

 

 

http://theartfactory.com/Product.asp?id=80

 

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I think it is much cleaner and tasteful. The wildwood one was way overdone. Does anyone know of any others I might consider? I'll start a thread uner projects as soon as I decide and keep folks posted on the progress.

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The Art Factory clock looks a lot easier and would not take a huge hunk of your time, compared to the first one. The photo does not show up really well here so I am not really sure exactly what is involved to make but it sure would keep one busy for some time.  I will hope that you post your decision before you actually start your work and post your progress as you go along.  I am finishing up my shop obligations and I too have a clock to make, but not that ambitious

 Good luck on your  endeavor. 

 

Dick

heppnerguy

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