Creative Woodworks & crafts 1997-08, страница 35

After, reading "'Building A Grandfather Clock From. A Kit", by Joe Golden in the February '97 issue of Creative Woodworks and Crafts, Albert E. Cain of Lake Park. FL, sent us this picture of the Grandfather clock he made over 20 years ago. It sti! keeps accurate time to within 15 seconds per month!

Wood Ornamen ts - revisited: Anita Parsons of Dun das. Ontario took these patterns from our 1996 issue of Wood Ornaments and scrolled them onto .010" copper laminated with 1/4" Baltic birch plywood. She: then finished them with Patina Finishes by Modern Options

Rout a 3/8" groove for the square nuts

1/2 screw eye or similar

Travelers ride in 8-32 x 2" pai the grooves rout- machine bolt ed in the base

8-32 square nuts (typ)

Note: make all wooden components from hardwood.

''Right after I got cut of the Navy in 1946, 1 enrolled in an on-the-job apprenticeship program in Michigan," began a wonderful letter from Calvin W. Krauss of Drummond, WI. "The teacher was an old Dutch cabinetmaker, who showed us a tool he had made for drawing ovals....It's simple to make and handy to have." To easily make this ellipse tooi, refer to the photograph and drawings presented here.

Rout lteyways or "x dovetails for the travelers

"This is no weekend project!" said Chris Coulter of Hardy, VA, to himself after he began this clock in the winter of '95. He incorporated seven different types of wood—and sixteen months of his time—into this elaborate clock design, known as "Chimes of Normandy."

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