Clock bug bit again

[SA1911a1]

My wife and I went to L.A. on a junket yesterday. (junk and antique shops)

I have gotten where I just can't turn my back on old clocks if they are priced right. Sessions Regulator, I haven't nailed down the date, but between 1903 and 1933. I had a minor fix to make to the case and it is running like a champ. This one is a little odd for a regulator because it has the hour strike and the rounded case.

[Junk Yard Dog]

[SA1911a1]

I was wrong about this one, it is not a Sessions, as I originally thought, I misremembered the trademark. It is a Japanese clock made during the same time frame. It is a Seikosha, the Company that would later become Seiko. It breaks with my plan to only buy American made clocks, but I like the old timepiece anyway. Clock collecting has a long learning curve as I am beginning to find out.

[ffuries]

My dad brought my mom a clock back from either the Philippines or Korea. It worked for years with no issues.

I got it after she died, and it worked for about 1/2 year, until the spring sprung and said I'm done. Then when it was sitting on the workbench someone knocked it off and never said anything. It sat in a box in pieces for years, before I finally repaired the wood and put it back together. Now it hangs in one of the spare bedrooms, but as a decorative versus functional piece.

It was made to look old, but it's not a real antique clock, or a real manufacturer. It's like the Khyber Pass version of clocks. But it was my moms so I kept it, and that's the only reason I put it back together.

[SA1911a1]

I found another one in an "antique" store yesterday. Tag said it would only run for a few seconds, and that the second hand did not work. This one is from the 1890s and the case looks like it may have been in several wars. I pulled the movement and cleaned about 100 years of dried oil and tar from the fireplace out of it and got it running. The "Second hand" really does work. The brass "second hand" is sloooooow. It takes 31 days to make a circuit of the dial. ;)

[SA1911a1]

I found another one in an "antique" store yesterday. Tag said it would only run for a few seconds, and that the second hand did not work. I got it cheap! This one is from the 1890s and the case looks like it may have been in several wars. I pulled the movement and cleaned about 100 years of dried oil and tar from the fireplace out of it and got it running. The "Second hand" really does work. The brass "second hand" is sloooooow. It takes 31 days to make a circuit of the dial. ;)

[SA1911a1]

I found a couple of new/old stock clock movements on ebay. When you buy them like this they are usually missing a couple of parts. With no pendulum, no instructions and no data to be found online, you have to work out the pendulum length by trial and error. The pendulum has to be very close to the exact design length if it is to keep decent time. I am closing in on that length.

I had started building a clock case about 15 years ago, and it has been residing in the barn, I drug it out to check the fit of one of the movements. It is going to work. I have to build a door and I am going shelve the bottom half. I should have it presentable in a few weeks. The lumber is all heart pine that I salvaged from tearing down an old house a while back. De-nail it, size it and run it through the planer and I think it looks good. The trim around the top was also from the old house.

I don't know what I am going to do with the second movement. It appears that it was made for a school house type regulator clock. I will probably end up building a case for it too.

If you look above the clock, you can see me and my child bride. Of course, I thought I was a grown ass man at the time, and it took me a few more years to get that straight. That is the only photo I have allowed of me to hit the internet. I figure no one would ever recognize me from that pic. ;)

[Junk Yard Dog]

Nice clock.

Obviously Steve has never encountered modern facial recognition technology that can easily handle age progression.

[SA1911a1]

I got off my butt and have been playing in the wood shop trying to get grandpa finished. The wood working is done, now the finishing (which I despise) is in progress. All of the wood in this project is Heart Pine probably cut in the late 1800s or early 1900s. About 20 years ago, I tore down some old buildings for the lumber and I have nearly a lifetime supply of the stuff. It is nice cutting and planning the wood because it smells so good. The wood is very resinous, even after drying for a hundred years. I will let the stain dry for a couple of days and Tung oil the cabinet. I am trying to convince my son to paint me dial; that is the largest detail left.

I make no claim as a cabinet maker, and a real carpenter would laugh me out of my shop, but I do enjoy butchering wood.

[ffuries]

My wife and I went to L.A. on a junket yesterday. (junk and antique shops)

I have gotten where I just can't turn my back on old clocks if they are priced right. Sessions Regulator, I haven't nailed down the date, but between 1903 and 1933. I had a minor fix to make to the case and it is running like a champ. This one is a little odd for a regulator because it has the hour strike and the rounded case.

Steve, have you thought about combining your love of guns and clocks and getting into clock guns?


https://www.forgottenweapons.com/halls- ... -the-hour/

[SA1911a1]

My wife and I went to L.A. on a junket yesterday. (junk and antique shops)

I have gotten where I just can't turn my back on old clocks if they are priced right. Sessions Regulator, I haven't nailed down the date, but between 1903 and 1933. I had a minor fix to make to the case and it is running like a champ. This one is a little odd for a regulator because it has the hour strike and the rounded case.

Steve, have you thought about combining your love of guns and clocks and getting into clock guns?


https://www.forgottenweapons.com/halls- ... -the-hour/

That is a good idea, Mike. You really need to know when it is time to shoot!

[ARTX]

Very nice sir,that's one thing missing in my collection. I have small clocks but nothing big like yours. If and when I can I will go hunting for clocks

[Junk Yard Dog]

Too bad all you clock hunters weren't around when I had a pallet full of clocks to sell. 1920's industrial factory clocks, Gilded age mantle clocks, , art deco style clocks for the tabletop. All long since sold off except one small French made travel alarm clock so old it has a pendulum inside. The story behind that one was it was used by an officer during the States War while he was in the field. His name isn't on it so it's just a story, I will have to find that one some day, buried inside one of many unlabeled trunks in storage.

[SA1911a1]

I am calling the grandfather project done. I have one more movement to build a case for, but I haven't decided how to go with it.

[tomaustin]

did your son do the face ?

btw, really nice work to create that piece......Tom

[millman]

[Junk Yard Dog]

Nice job, I have a small Ansonia beehive clock on my worktable now. Came out of Lancaster PA a few years back, not sure what I am going to do with it yet.