A Complete Guide to the History and Manufacture of Grandfather Clocks

Author: Anon
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447482387
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
This vintage text contains an interesting and informative guide to the history and manufacture of grandfather clocks, complete with historical information, descriptions of many different varieties, and a plethora of authentic photographs. This accessible and informative guide will appeal to those with a keen interest in the history and development of grandfather clocks, and it will be of considerable value to antiques dealers and collectors. The chapters of this volume include: A History Of Clocks And Watches, The Development Of Grandfather Clock Cases, Late Arch-Dial Clocks In Walnut Cases, Square-Dial Clocks In Marqueterie Cases, Arch-Dial Clocks In Marqueterie Cases, Late Arch-Dial Clocks In Walnut Cases, etcetera. This antiquarian book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of clocks and watches.

Designing and Building a Grandfather Clock

Author: Gary Williams
Publisher: A S Barnes & Company
ISBN: 9780498022098
Category : Clock and watch making.
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Woodworker's manual demonstrates the building of a grandfather clock, from workshop preparation to purchase of the mechanisms and interior pieces to the design and joinery of the finished product

Complete Guide to Making Wooden Clocks, 3rd Edition

Author: John A. Nelson
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607655365
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Book Description
Learn how to construct a variety of traditional, Shaker, and contemporary clocks, with plans, parts lists, and instructions for 37 timepieces, including grandfather clocks, mantel clocks, and desk clocks. Complete Guide to Making Wooden Clocks, 3rd Edition also includes a bonus pattern pack with scroll saw project templates.

Restoring Grandfather Clocks

Author: Eric Smith
Publisher: Robert Hale
ISBN: 9780719802706
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"The grandfather clock, an entirely new kind of furniture, first appeared in the late seventeenth century. From then on, with its long case to protect pendulum and weights, its rugged movement and large, clear indication of time, it has been a success story right up to the present day. Virtually none of these clocks is beyond repair and often the work required is within the scope of inexperienced owners. This is the first full-length book to cover repair and restoration of these attractive and often valuable antiques, including their casework. The first part outlines how to clean and service the clock 'works' and also how to refurbish the dial, while in the second part restoration or casework, both structural repairs and finishing, is considered. The illustrations are of two actual clocks (one eight-day and one thirty-hour) and work proceeding on them. The last part of the book sketches common variations from these particular examples. Armed with this book and appropriate tools (for work on both movement and case), the owner of a dilapidated grandfather clock will be encouraged and given the know-how to restore it to life as a useful and attractive clock and a prized possession."--Wheelers.co.nz.

How to Build 35 Great Clocks

Author: Joseph Daniele
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811722322
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
Includes the four basic types of clocks---plaque, shelf, wall, and tall case clocks. Plans, drawings, and photos included.

American Wooden Movement Tall Clocks

Author: Philip E. Morris (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615445687
Category : Clock and watch makers
Languages : en
Pages : 511

Book Description

Making Wooden Gear Clocks

Author: Editors of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607658976
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 187

Book Description
Making a piece of wood move is fun, but making it tell time is truly amazing! Inside this book, you’ll find ingenious plans for creating awesome wooden machines that actually move and keep time. These working wooden wonders might just be the most enjoyable projects you ever build in your shop. Wooden gear clocks are not only fascinating to watch, but can be surprisingly accurate timepieces. Just don’t expect atomic precision—after all, they’re modeled on 17th-century technology! But as you build these scroll saw clocks you’ll use all of the basic principles that still govern mechanical clocks today. Six well-illustrated step-by-step scroll saw projects are arranged by skill level from beginner to advanced, and full-sized scroll saw patterns are attached to the book in a handy pouch. With a little perseverance, you’ll soon be ticking along happily with your own wooden clockworks. All you have to do is build them, wind them up, and let them run—no batteries required.

Wooden Clocks

Author: Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9781565234277
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 151

Book Description
The most beloved clock projects from the pages of Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts. Includes grandfather clocks, pendulum clocks, desk clocks, and more.

Maintaining Longcase Clocks

Author: Nigel Barnes
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847976336
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 492

Book Description
Longcase clocks were invidually hand-made during the golden age of change that took place between the late seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Longcase clocks with their seventeenth century clock-making technology were innovative and incorporated an accurate pendulum clock within an attractive piece of domestic furnishing. This invaluable book is essential reading for all those who own and collect longcase clocks as well as clock repairers, horologists and conservationists. The authors provide detailed information about how longcase clocks work and how they are made. They also cover the theory and the 'best practice' practical steps that are required in longcase clock maintenance, restoration and conservation. The book outlines the history and horological development of longcase clocks; describes how longcase clocks can be dated; considers materials, tools and equipment; examines the movement and the associated simple, and more difficult, workshop procedures; covers maintenance and effective repairs; explains the more difficult woodwork procedures. Superbly illustrated with 300 colour photographs. Nigel Barnes and Austin Jordan provide advice and guidance in the field of antique horology and regularly run weekend courses.

Hour of the Bees

Author: Lindsay Eagar
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763687359
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367

Book Description
What does it mean to be fully alive? Magic blends with reality in a stunning coming-of-age novel about a girl, a grandfather, wanderlust, and reclaiming your roots. Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them. . . . While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina — Carol — is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she’s never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her about a healing tree, a green-glass lake, and the bees that will bring back the rain and end a hundred years of drought. As the thin line between magic and reality starts to blur, Carol must decide for herself what is possible — and what it means to be true to her roots. Readers who dream that there’s something more out there will be enchanted by this captivating novel of family, renewal, and discovering the wonder of the world.