Butternut Genealogy Clock

[HEBlumer]

I'm new to this..was pleased to see the attachments show up when I hit preview. I love this software and the work of WCI to make it available to all of us.. What I am trying to do is to show a grandfather clock I made out of solid Butternut..... actually a Genealogy Clock.... The top center is an applique, a relief carving of a wild mountain rose which grows in Switzerland which is called a "Blumer" which happens to be our family name. The sound panels on each side are pierced relief carvings of a Blumer family crest that dates back to the 1300s in Switzerland.. The clock works and plans were purchased from KLOCKIT in Canada. I made the clock in December 2000 from wood I had purchased 5 years earlier at a local sawmill. The remainder of those three logs was just advertised today in this web site message center Wood section... At my age I will never use that much wood and I simply must start getting rid of stuff like that.. The clock was a neat way of using my wood carving and carpentry skills to compliment the hundreds of hours I devoted to family genealogy research... I should have made four, one for each of my kids....but I didn't and they will probably fight over it when I am gone..

[Tom Ellis]

Great looking clock HE. Good luck with the kids.

Tom

[Thor]

Beautiful clock and your carvings are even better with the meaning behind them.
I am sure your prediction is correct about your four kids fighting over it someday. What a wonderful piece to leave to them.
Thanks for showing it to us.
Christina

[whittlinJim]

Great looking clock! One down, three to go!

Jim

[BrandantR]

Now that's a beautiful clock!!! Thanks for sharing it with us.

[chuckbolton]

very nice piece of work-- glad to get the chance to see it

[mobjack68]

Great Work!!, thanks for sharing...

the kids...maybe they can cut your clock 4 ways, then each will have a piece??

My g'mother had 3 of her kids arguing over a mahogany buffet that was in her house (these "kids" were in their 50's as I recall...I was maybe 12). One day when they were all there, she got the three of them together, in the room with the buffet and a roll of masking tape. She used the tape to mark the buffet in thirds and had the folks take all the stuff out and they carried it outside...where my grandfather was waiting with a chain saw. That buffet stayed in the same spot back in the dining room until they broke up her house after she passed away. It was donated to a local nursing home where it still sits today with the masking tape still on the bottom and the back (stipulations from the "kids")

[Old Scout]

I agree with Mobjack, I saw my Aunts divide up my Grandfathers furnishings , before they came to blows, they decided to draw straws so each could make a pick. That clock is so great it should be decided now so there can be peace. I love buternut!!!