Comments on: Designing your own Clock Case http://riversdaleclocks.com/timeout/designing-your-own-clock-case/ Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:46:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Provan http://riversdaleclocks.com/timeout/designing-your-own-clock-case//comment-page-1#comment-128 David Provan Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:16:05 +0000 http://riversdaleclocks.com/timeout/designing-your-own-clock-case/#comment-128 I've just done my first long case clock - see Barry's Blog. This was developed from photos, some ours, some from the net. Unless professionally taken, photos distort the proportions of the case. I scaled a full-size drawing from the photos, but found that I had to make many changes, both to the drawing and during construction, before the clock looked right. If you can possibly measure a similar case, I'd recommend it - even basic measurements of overall height, width and depth of elements are very useful. One little point that nearly caught me out: make sure that you have enough clearance for the weights to travel to the bottom of the clock! Mine have only about 5mm clearance at one point, and if I hadn't thought about the issue when framing up, they may not have had that. Select your movement with this in mind, as well as all the other factors. I read the recommended book after building the case. I wish I'd read it before. I’ve just done my first long case clock – see Barry’s Blog. This was developed from photos, some ours, some from the net. Unless professionally taken, photos distort the proportions of the case. I scaled a full-size drawing from the photos, but found that I had to make many changes, both to the drawing and during construction, before the clock looked right. If you can possibly measure a similar case, I’d recommend it – even basic measurements of overall height, width and depth of elements are very useful.

One little point that nearly caught me out: make sure that you have enough clearance for the weights to travel to the bottom of the clock! Mine have only about 5mm clearance at one point, and if I hadn’t thought about the issue when framing up, they may not have had that. Select your movement with this in mind, as well as all the other factors.

I read the recommended book after building the case. I wish I’d read it before.

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