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Philadelphia Cherry Tall Clock
Oct 24, 2012
Woodworker: Richard Gies
Gies had been honing his furniture-making skills for 25 years before tackling this tall case clock. To make the piece, a classic example of an 18th-century Philadelphia-region clock, Gies took measurements from an original owned by a friend. From those dimensions, he created full-scale working drawings. The clock, made of cherry with poplar as a secondary wood, is right at home in Gies’s 1830 Quaker farmhouse. The finish is water-based stain and tung oil.
Photo: Richard Gies
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