Junior Year Grandfather Clock

This is a Grandfather clock that I just finished at the end of my Junior year in my highschool woodshop. sorry it took me so long to get this one on here. Once again, just like my freshman year nightstand and my sophmore year gun cabinet; the clock was designed and built by myself, following plans that I drew. The legs are cabriole legs with hand carved ball and claw feet on the end. If you can’t tell, the main wood used in the clock is red oak, but there is a lot of zebra wood used as well. Where the face frames meet on the corners is zebrawood that I did split turnings with to make quarter round. Also, there is zebrawood trim throughout with all of the corners including those on the outside where the quarter round meets the faceframes is quarter rounded in zebrawood. The botttom piece of zebrawood is actually a drawer front. This drawer has a locking device that must be undone undernieth the clock before it can be removed. This clock was awarded Best of Show at our woodshow, which is for a highschool in a town of 3000 people. There are three classes that are judged, there is the general woods class, which is the first year students, then the is the cabinet making class for the second year students, and advanced furniture construction which consists of the third and fourth year students, all of the calsses combined make up about 60 students, and each class has its own plaque plus an extra for best of the show as a whole. As said before, this clock won best overall in the show. This is a great honor to win, especially as a junior. I am now attending the same school as a senior and I am doing everything I possibly can to win best of show again this year. There are some details that I tried to take pictures of that I will explain for anyone who can’t figure out what I was trying to show. The glass is actually stage blasted so that the double helix looks like two different winding ribbons. Also I tried to picture some of the quarter round work that was done. The final aspect of this project that i would like to point out is the choice of wood that I used throughout the project. As seen in the pictures, the zebrawood is very unique and one piece even has a birdseye effect in it. The other pieces that were accent pieces were the two peices of oak that were used for the bottom rails in the two front doors. My instructor pulled those two pieces out of the garbag in our shop. They are really dark and almost appear to be walnut, but they are oak. These pieces of wood are almost twice the weight of a normal piece of oak their size, but they are really pretty and really stand out from the rest of the wood. This cabinet was finish sanded three times starting at 80 grit and working to 400 grit which amounted to approx. 16 hours of sanding. The finish on the clock is the same as the nightstand, and gun cabinet which consists of two coats of danish oil, the second one being wet sanded, three coats of bartley gel hand rub varnish, and one coat of paste wax.

-- Troy, Newcastle Wyoming