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   donpapenburg | Mar 22, 2002 03:21am | #1

   The side pillars are fluted but don't show up that way here for some reason. I put a small lamp in the case that puts a soft glow on the face at night .

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   Armin110 | Mar 22, 2002 03:40am | #2

   Don, Congradulations you posted a picture, I'm lost in cybor space.

   Armin

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   donpapenburg | Mar 22, 2002 03:48am | #3

   Armin , This is a tough site to figger out , but it did take picture that the other site would reject. Don

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   Qtrmeg | Mar 22, 2002 03:55am | #4

   Well, at that size you have 4 more pictures you can add. 

   Tell me about how you went about building that clock, also the finishing.  That's a sweet project.

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   donpapenburg | Mar 22, 2002 04:48am | #5

   It was a spur of the moment type of thing . We were at my aunt's funeral and my dad was looking at the grand father clock in the hallway and he said that he needed one of those things. Well that was in Nov. and I had not gotten anything for christmas for him so I ordered the works . they arived 2weeks before Chrismas I piced out some cherry that I had stashed . I made the sides and back with raised panels inside and out . I used an ogee panel raising cutter . all of the cherry was rough cut air dry stock The finnish is satin poly . I did not stain any of the wood. It has aged very nicely over the the years (been 5 or 6 now) Any thing else you want to know just ask.

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   donpapenburg | Mar 22, 2002 04:57am | #6

   The plow was made from small scraps of cherry and the plow handles were soaked in boiling water for a couple of min. and then bent to shape the moldboard was made from a thin chrome steel sheet . It is simular to the plow that John Deere made in the shop at Grand Detuor ,IL in the 1800s. I did get the clock finished the day before Christmas

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   BungalowJeff | Mar 22, 2002 08:08am | #7

   So, this was a spur of the moment decision? Is this your first clock? Wow. The plow detail really makes this a special piece. Got any aged quarter-sawn oak?...

   Edited 3/22/2002 1:13:42 AM ET by Bungalow Jeff

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   BillHartmann | Mar 22, 2002 06:18pm | #8

   Don

   What is that on the rail just below the clock face. Is that initals AH or is it some kind of other symbol.

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   donpapenburg | Mar 24, 2002 02:52am | #9

   B J Boy I wish I had 1/4 sawn oak . This is the first grand father clock I made . I made a banjo clock years before and did not have the works . It is hard to find works to fit in a clock that is done withj out a plan ,I knew what I wanted it to look like , didn't think that it would be that hard to find the works to fit it. The company that I bought the works for the grandfather clock had what I needed . That is the reason I waited for the works to arrive before I started the grand father .

   Bill , that is an AH and the little walnut bar has Papenburg in raised letters Those are my dad's initials . Don

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   BungalowJeff | Mar 24, 2002 04:32am | #10

   I really think you have a potential second career. Small oak mantel clocks go or several hundred and that's with a glued on paper face!  Again, nice job....that's not a mistake, it's rustic

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   donpapenburg | Mar 24, 2002 04:54am | #11

   Thanks B J , I might try to make up a clock or two to sell. Just don't know where to sell them though. My banjo clock has a blue glass face with walnut numbers set in small sandblasted circles. don

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   donpapenburg | Mar 24, 2002 05:01am | #12

   Walnut banjo clock

   
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   StanFoster | Mar 24, 2002 05:12am | #13

   Don:

    Very nice work.   I have always wanted to make a grandfather clock or a mantle clock.

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    donpapenburg | Mar 24, 2002 05:26am | #14

    Shoot ,Stan you could whip one up in a few days ,with the talent you have. You know somthing to keep you out of mischeif inyour spare time.

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    StanFoster | Mar 24, 2002 05:33am | #15

    Don:

    Hey,  I can appreciate the time you had to have put into those clocks. I was showing my wife that grandfather clock, and she thought one in our new dining room would be nice.  I just am going to have to build one,,,maybe this coming winter.  Again, very nice work Don.

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    Armin110 | Mar 24, 2002 05:39am | #16

    Don, you are truly a multi talented craftsman. For some reason me and clocks don't get along, maybe it's because I can't tock to them, I always seem to tick them off.

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    StanFoster | Mar 24, 2002 05:44am | #17

    Armin:

    I might add that I dont have the time.

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    donpapenburg | Mar 24, 2002 05:43pm | #18

    Armin ,

    The clock will tock to you if you just build it a nice place to stay. I don't think you would tick one off if you show it some of your work.

    Make sure that you buy good movements . I like the Hermle works , Made in Germany . I would like to build one with the brass sound tubes, very nice looking outfit . I think that it cost over a grand for the movement . I would like to do it in walnut ,With some inlays of some other wood . I was thinking a full length glass front would be nice also. Don