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3 Tips For Designing Your Own Grandfather Clock Case
by Barry Share
Although there are advanced drawing programs you can use oncomputers today, we still use the old method we were taught incollege i.e. using a drawing board, clips, and T-square. You maylaugh but it the cheapest and fastest way, and works very wellfor us, working on the principle of keep it simple.
1. Construction
Take some time out to look at styles and construction of casesfor the period that matches your movement and dial. If you arenot lucky enough to be able to get access to any and to havehands on and get a close look, you will have to scan as manybooks as possible. It goes with out saying a good source ofpictures can be found at your local library.
2. Keep Your Eyes Open
Museums and stately homes give a great opportunity to get closeup and have a good scan. A friend of mine once asked a statelyhome permission to photograph and take the dimensions from atable they had so he could make a copy, and believe it or notthey said yes. I've never tried it but it might work for a clockcase.
3. Auction Houses
Let's not forget the old auction houses these can be a greatsource for research. Get the catalogue for any photographs, andthen get yourself down to the auction on viewing day and you canthen get a close look at the style with its veneering, stringingand all its decorative features, and also look inside to see howthe case was constructed.
Once you have drawn up the case you are going to make, with asmuch detail as you can put on it, you can then compile yourcutting list.
Listing all the parts you will have to make to finished size,you can then calculate the exact amount of timber you will needto buy from the timber merchant and order the veneers andstringing or inlay if necessary. It's also a good time to sourceand purchase the fittings you will use on the case i.e. hinges,finials, patera and column caps.
A great book that covers clock case drawing and constructionthat I can recommend is "Making and Repairing Wooden clockcases" By V.J. Taylor & H.A.Babb.
About the Author
Barry Share is the proprietor of Riversdale Clocks.Were he and his son Matthew have been making bespoke cases forlongcase clocks since 1986 and are both holders of advancedfurniture qualifications Barry and Mat are co-authors in the new case making manual "Making A Case For A Longcase Clock" a must read for any one making a case to house an antique movement and dial.: casemaking.riversdaleclocks.com
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