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Waldo’s Grandfather clock
And so it begins.
I’ve always wanted to build a grandfather clock and looking for an idea for my next large and lengthy project I thought it’d be a great idea to look at building one.
My search started with trying to find an Australian importer of Hermle movements who also sold plans. Initially I had settled on Clock Plan 912 HB Design suits 1151 from CMI-Hermle in Brisbane. A great big box duly arrived 3 days later after ordering, however I soon realised the plans I bought weren’t really what I wanted. So I searched for a style of grandfather clock that was more of what I was wanting.
So after a lot of looking I ended up getting the plans Movement/703.11RDial/PL.22/for Plan912-9 from Klockit in the US. The only thing was that the Madison is built around a different clock face with dimensions that didn’t match the Hermle movement, but the clock case had the right width and depth to suit.
As great as the plans are, they’re in imperial, which I understand pretty well, to a degree. Rather than convert imperial to metric I decided to stay with imperial. What I did have to do was redraw the basic parts and work out how the dial face fits to the trim panel from the Madison and make sure the datum line of everything still matched to the Hermle movement.
In the meantime, I visited Canterbury Clocks in Canterbury to look over their clocks to and to ask the bloke there 20 questions and pop over to Graeme Brown Antiques to pick up the brass hardware that I’ll need.
So with a long weekend down here and itching to get a start on things I’ve started on the template jigs.
This won’t be a quick job, it’ll take me a while and I’m not in a hurry anyway. Besides, there’s the issue of where it’ll go once it’s finished and right now that space is taken up the my daughter’s budgie.