Customer brought in an old Cuckoo clock from the early 1900's recently The clock was in her family since the beginning. It was in pieces, not sure what happened but it was rough and looked like it had been either in the attic or basement for some time. When she discovered it, she said there was a snake living in it and their was a mouse skeleton in it. The wood was dry rotted and was cracked in a few locations, the movement was there but it was worn out and dirty. The bellows (the part that makes the cuckoo sound) was missing but the whistles where there. I overhauled the movement, put in new bellows, and most of all repaired the case and refurbished the wood case. I did not refinish the case because I did not want to diminish the historic value of the clock. As you can see in the pictures the finished clock turned out wonderful and it is keeping great time. Its on the way home this week and I'm sure the customer will be happy. I love when I get the rough ones in and they turn out this wonderful. I truly love restoring history.
I received an Ogee 30 hour clock today as well. I have not taken any pictures of it yet but will soon. I think the Ogee was buried along side of someone. It is the roughest one that has ever come into me shop yet. After looking at it for a bit, it looks to be around 1880-1890 and has about 100 or so years of dirt and crap on it. It looks like someone had painted it silver at some point, but I think there is some beautiful wood under all that dirt and paint. Ill let you know when I get ready to start on it. I'm getting backed up on clocks coming in.
