Well I thought I would share this with you guys seeing as I have had little time for woodworking in awhile now.
I have for sometime now been kicking around the idea of building a grandfather clock. I have thought about this to the point where I have been researching different clock movments and so on. Here about a week and half ago I was on the Klockit website looking at movements and options when I happened into the clearance section of the site. While there I found a wall hanging clock that I really liked so I showed the wife, well she loved it and said she had just the spot for something like that so I went ahead and bought the kit and the plans. Should be an interesting experience as I don’t seem to get along well with plans and seem to deviate greatly.
Well today when I got home the kit and plans were waiting for me at the door. I will have to say even though this is my first and only order with Klockit I am impressed. This little bag seems to have everything in it but the wood! They even have a bag of large rubber bands that I can only assume are ment to be used as clamps. They have included the various grits of sandpaper and even the small drill bits they recommend using and a small bottle of wood glue. I had to kind of chuckle when I saw all this as this is certainly no Kit that I have seen at Woodcraft or Rockler to say the least.
The plans themselves are not what you would see in say a magazine project where they say “On the tablesaw make a ¼” deep Dado etc.” but more like a set of construction blueprints and at this time they almost appear to me to be to scale.
Anyhow, should be an interesting project and I find myself pretty impressed with the contents and quality of the Klockit kit so I thought I would share and I will be sure to post some pictures when I finish it.
Ken
I have for sometime now been kicking around the idea of building a grandfather clock. I have thought about this to the point where I have been researching different clock movments and so on. Here about a week and half ago I was on the Klockit website looking at movements and options when I happened into the clearance section of the site. While there I found a wall hanging clock that I really liked so I showed the wife, well she loved it and said she had just the spot for something like that so I went ahead and bought the kit and the plans. Should be an interesting experience as I don’t seem to get along well with plans and seem to deviate greatly.
Well today when I got home the kit and plans were waiting for me at the door. I will have to say even though this is my first and only order with Klockit I am impressed. This little bag seems to have everything in it but the wood! They even have a bag of large rubber bands that I can only assume are ment to be used as clamps. They have included the various grits of sandpaper and even the small drill bits they recommend using and a small bottle of wood glue. I had to kind of chuckle when I saw all this as this is certainly no Kit that I have seen at Woodcraft or Rockler to say the least.
The plans themselves are not what you would see in say a magazine project where they say “On the tablesaw make a ¼” deep Dado etc.” but more like a set of construction blueprints and at this time they almost appear to me to be to scale.
Anyhow, should be an interesting project and I find myself pretty impressed with the contents and quality of the Klockit kit so I thought I would share and I will be sure to post some pictures when I finish it.
Ken
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