A fun project...back on the wood lathe!

[john elder]

warming up for some christmas projects...a golfing buddy had a clock in the family that had parted ways with 5 finials during one move or another and he wondered if I might be able to do something about that. Clock is rosewood and after checking grain, I decided cocobolo, which is in the rosewood family, looked like it might be close enough to serve.



I didn't have one to go by, so found that make clock on the 'net and did some ratios between the clock and the pic and got a good guess as to dimensions:

threw away all the bits that didn't look like finial:




Lower (stalactite version, if you will) finials were smaller and quite different


after a bit of staining to darken the lighter stripes in the cocobolo, the match turned out pretty good...duplication wasn't exactly CNC quality, but it makes a good 5-footer at least:



I love retirement!!

[oc1]

Beautiful work John.
-steve

[Midway Tommy D]

Nice, JE!

[RAM]

Great match Deke!

BB

[Mike N]

Nicely done, John. An old German clockmaker could do no better.

Mike N

[Wayne B.]

Great work, Doc. I love the grain and colors in that wood!

[sdlehr]

Nicely done, Dr. Elder!