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A friend was in Germany in military, called me and said he was touring Kieninger clock/gift shop, and told the owner I always wanted one of their clocks, and was a wood worker. So they agreed to sell him the works 2 years ago. It took a year to get back from Germany, since he was deployed. So in the mean time he bet me that I could not make the cabinet to the Kieninger standard. I looked throu my stock of lumber and remembered I had about 60 ft. of curly maple and 20 ft. of quilted curly maple. I had planned to make a crib for my daughter, but she has not needed that yet. So the wood was used. I designed the plan four times before I cut a board. Quanity was limited. I started the project in June 06. curly maple is the complete base and frame to top of lyre/curio area. The top, well I made three plywood frames and tore them apart and started over. It was the hard part to make work with weight and lyre set backs. I used all quilted curly maple to construct the clock box,trim and glass frames. Then came the stain, the grain and wood pattern would not show well with light stains, so Minwax Red Mahogany was the one that let the grain stand out the most. three coats with sanding between coats Minwax Antique Oil finish was the way to go with all the corners and hard to reach areas. Brass accents, shelf pins and sleeves, I thought made the Brass clock work and cabinet come together. A few missing parts, had to be retrived to complete. But Jan. 10, 07 glass was in and it was complete. So now the friend says, I owe him one, he brought two back from Germany.
-- Marty Ohio
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Max
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posted 630 days ago
Beautiful work, the figure in the wood really pops out with that finish. I really like the design; sounds like a lot of thought went into it. So what I want to know is will the friend get one?? That is a piece of work to be very proud of. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. And welcome to Lumberjocks.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
dennis mitchell
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posted 630 days ago
Awsome!
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MsDebbieP
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posted 630 days ago
as I walked your journey with you, through your words, I felt like a parent nurturing and guiding a child. I felt my heart and soul going into this beautiful masterpiece.
Magnificent.
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oscorner
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posted 630 days ago
That’s an awesome grandfather clock!!
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 630 days ago
Beautiful, you must have lost a lot of sleep with this project. What type of stain did you use? It’s hard to get hard Maple to absorb stain.
-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1
Don
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posted 629 days ago
This is one beautiful clock. I’ve never seen one designed like this before? Is the design yours, or is it a copy of one of the Kieninger designs?
-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/
bigpops0259
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posted 629 days ago
thanks Max yes alot of thought went in to this and time. and yes we are tring to find the right type of wood and design for his clock.
thanks dennis,MsdebbieP,and oscorner for your comments
thanks Dick no sleep wasn,t lost but a few nightmares maybe .I use only minwax products
maple i usually stain sand and stain til it blends
Thanks Don the design is totally mine, I build about six projects a year and design them all,
i just shop for ideas and go from there
-- Marty Ohio
Mark A. DeCou
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posted 629 days ago
Crap. I hope you don’t enter this in the competition.
Honestly, this is beautiful, what an accomplishment. YOu need to put this piece in your Will so that your heirs won’t be fighting for it.
Great work,
Mark
-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan
Mark A. DeCou
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posted 629 days ago
Crap! I hope you don’t enter this in the competition.
Honestly, this is beautiful, what an accomplishment. YOu need to put this piece in your Will so that your heirs won’t be fighting for it. Really.
Great work, I can’t see what else you have to post.
Mark
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Red Headed Merganser
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posted 629 days ago
You’d have to put some SERIOUSLY interesting stuff in the curio compartments to get me to look past the case itself…
And ditto to Mark’s post… twice, even.
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mcoyfrog
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posted 46 days ago
intense very nice
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