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I've taken a great deal of satisfaction in making antique clock replicas for pretty much 30 years now.
I've attached a couple pictures of one of my last projects. The good looking ladies are my wife and the better half of life-long friends during installation in their home.
Most patterns and the related hardware have come from Murray Clock Craft: grandfather clock kits . They've always gone to family and friends, but now that they've all been looked after, and I'm well into retirement, I've started to wonder about perhaps making a little pocket money. Larger clocks are not money-makers - way too much time and money to make them.
But now that I've discovered the scroll saw I see a lot of opportunity:
I'm really looking forward to having a long relationship with this forum.
Thanks,
Jay
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I've attached a couple pictures of one of my last projects. The good looking ladies are my wife and the better half of life-long friends during installation in their home.
Most patterns and the related hardware have come from Murray Clock Craft: grandfather clock kits . They've always gone to family and friends, but now that they've all been looked after, and I'm well into retirement, I've started to wonder about perhaps making a little pocket money. Larger clocks are not money-makers - way too much time and money to make them.
But now that I've discovered the scroll saw I see a lot of opportunity:
- it is about as relaxing an activity as I've ever come across
- I can spend more time in the workshop - as my knees have grown older my time spent in the workshop has grown shorter - until I discovered the scroll saw - and realized I can sit down!
- it is an inexpensive hobby - instead of buying massive volumes of expensive hardwood - |I'm pretty sure I have years of scrolling ahead of me just using up the scraps of past projects!
- I can keep my workshop clean .... bigger clocks take up bigger space - scrollwork does not .... for the first time I can manage multiple projects and still keep the place looking organized (sort of ....)
- there is a never ending supply of incredible patterns - many are free - and the rest are inexpensive.
- a single project does not take months to complete.
- there is a great supply of knowledge, information and advice in this forum on any scrolling problem that I can possibly imagine .....
I'm really looking forward to having a long relationship with this forum.
Thanks,
Jay
I moved your thread to a more appropriate forum to maximize traffic and get you more responses to your post/request/question.
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