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I've pondering and drawing stuff on the shower glass
So, I reckon I'm where I want to be with this now.
I've brought back the Column end post and above it the Front gallery trim plates and Crown trim plate returns.
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Beneath the column end cap and above the column end cap, I'll put a cap. This cap will be a similar profile which I showed in a previous post.
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You can see how this cap will extend about 23mm beyond the depth of the column end post. However I'm happy in how it transitions from the column, to the end cap and to the cap above it. I had the extra thought to double the thickness of this cap to mirror the profile on the top, but that might make it to chunky.
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Fitting the crown moulding and column end posts
Like I wrote in my last post, after getting the linear router sled set up, it meant I could move onto other stuff with the grandfather clock.
So with 3 weeks off over Christmas my goal was to get the crown moulding fitted and glued, which covers the split crown front frame and the left and right crown frame returns. The split crown front frame shown below is version number 3. After assembling and gluing up the 2nd version I wasn't very happy with it, so I binned it and started over again.
First thing was to work out the positioning of the front frame, and to do so I did two things:
• On the back of the front frame, I marked its centre so I could position it pretty much where it had to go; and
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• I ran a board across the face of the carcass which gave me the position that the front frame would finally sit at, so that when I clapped it up I knew that it would push against it and act as a stop.
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I could now mark the front frame where I would have to run it through the table saw for the mitre cuts. But given I've only got a 10" t/saw, I'd have to come back with my kataba saw to finish the mitres off.
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Then with the front frame glued, I then moved on to positioning, cutting the mitres and glueing up each of the crown frame returns. The next step before I move on to the next stage of making up the doors was to finding the position of the column end posts, as these would give me the ability to take the measurements for them.
In another thread about some issues I had with installing the shelix cutterhead in my thincknesser, I showed how it dimensions stock full of fiddleback with absolutely no tear out. That stock I've used for the part of the column end posts.In the shot below I've only positioned the top column end posts.
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Below, I've glued the bottom column end posts. The carved components of the column end posts I sourced from a manufacturer in China who carved these to my specs.
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Next update I move on to the door assembly.
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Musings about the top panel
G'day,
Progress has been a lot about trying out ideas, not getting the desired affect and starting again until I'm happy.
For a while now I've been thinking how I don't like how most Grandfather clocks only have the front moulding and from the side seem to be crying out for something more, like the example below.
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My dear SWMBO would probably like that I keep it simpler so it's not like a "Greek monstrosity" but I really like the extra mouldings to the side of the case like the example below.
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So I took some left over moulding an worked how I'd like it to sit and used the split crown moulding template and marked it's position (the following steps I forgot to take shots of)
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And then I had another look at how it sat with the crown moulding. I didn't like it. Because it was the same moulding in the split crown, it was too heavy.
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So back to staring at my navel fluff as I pondered and mused.
I decided on a cut down version of the split crown moulding with the top profile removed to remove some visual bulk.
The notch yo can see will be where screws are fastened through the undone a 1/4 turn into the frame of the clock to allow for seasonal movement.
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I was much happier with this...
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... and side on looked pretty good too. I haven't finished this component yet, as I've got to drill the spot where the secondary finials will go on each side (this was an earlier shot before I sanded a couple of profiles so they met nicely at the mitre)
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Next up and even though I did it a couple of months ago now, in the next update I'll give the details of the Chime rod mount sound board. Followed by that, the doors which I'm working on right now.