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RogerS wrote:Ahem...here's one I made a few years back. ....
Mike G wrote:RogerS wrote:Ahem...here's one I made a few years back. ....
Wow, that's bold Roger. A striking mix of traditional and modern.
Woodbloke wrote:Mike G wrote:RogerS wrote:Ahem...here's one I made a few years back. ....
Wow, that's bold Roger. A striking mix of traditional and modern.
Certainly is, wood? - Rob
RogerS wrote:Ahem...here's one I made a few years back.
Cncpaul wrote:WRogerS wrote:Ahem...here's one I made a few years back.
Terrific job Rogers, what is the movement ?
RogerS wrote:Cncpaul wrote:WRogerS wrote:
Rather than wreck Rob's thread, when I get a moment I'll start another thread on my longcase clocks and move the posts over.
RogerS wrote:
Rather than wreck Rob's thread, when I get a moment I'll start another thread on my longcase clocks and move the posts over.
Phil wrote:I made a small mantle clock years ago and fitted a battery operated Westminster Chimes and a pendulam.
(will have a look for the pics)
Wife removed the battery as the chimes irritated her.
Woodbloke wrote:Phil wrote:I made a small mantle clock years ago and fitted a battery operated Westminster Chimes and a pendulam.
(will have a look for the pics)
Wife removed the battery as the chimes irritated her.
That was an option that I was thinking about but when I listed to the sound quality of the chimes through the speaker that idea got kicked into the long grass
With a battery powered electickery quartz clock, what does the pendulam do? - Rob
Andyp wrote:Chimes were hard back then.
RogerS wrote:
So to the questions. Therein lies a sad tale.
I got sucked in (suckered in?) by the hype and pizazz. My clients' previous job took him into contact with VHNW (very high net worth) individuals. There was no doubt he was plugged into the right customer base and the right entrees into the media. There was talk of the clocks featuring in the FT weekend glossy.
While getting one ready for the launch at a special exhibition of longcase clocks, a chap walked in off the street and bought it there and then for £45,000. Just like that. We were walking on air! But Christ, that was a long night getting a second one ready.
There was even talk of making twelve special clocks for one of the richest men on the planet and to be installed in his twelve houses around the world, each slightly different for his children. They even had their own exclusive Pantone colour which would feature in the design. Talk of hiring a freight Hercules to fly them around the world, installing as we went. That would have been fun.
So I invested rather a lot in dedicated spindle cutters, timber and time. More than I should have done.
Then reality kicked in. My client was great in ideas, in the vision, in the sales spiel but totally lacking in commercial nous. He knew a precision clock-maker and had asked him to design and make the mechanisms. But, as he later told me, these clock-makers are a weird bunch. Often with some sort of mild psychiatric disorder. They like nothing better than to make one-offs. So, even though he had a small CNC machine, to make three of a particular design was pushing at his limits of personal tolerance. But my client had paid him everything in advance.
We never got all the mechanisms. The project went TU. My client probably still hasn't got them all. I made very little money - if at all. I learned a lot though. Don't get sucked in.
So, Rob, afraid I can't help re clock-maker and Mike, I have no idea if they were all sold. I very much doubt it as not enough mechanisms.
The doors behaved themselves nicely, though, and didn't 'wander'. Partly because I was rigorous in my selection after ripping. Any sign of a bend and I'd rip another piece. Plus the glass was toughened and I have a sense that toughened is stiffer than float and so would discourage wood movement. (Of course, I could be talking tosh !)
So there you have it. Warts and all.
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