Hello! Welcome back to all my blog followers! I have been away in CT for almost a week. While at a church on Easter Sunday, I noticed that both the windows and wall clock on this old CT church had wavier glass than my clock will have. In doing some research, it tuns out there is the old glass-making process and there is the old, old glass-making process. The glass I have is not as old as it probably should be [200 years], and after thinking about going through the effort to find old, old glass and have it cut, I decided what I have is just fine.
Today, I continued my quest to find paint that properly matched my dial face and, after several more trips to the store and test painting, my wife revealed that she thought it looked best before I started messing with any touch-ups. So, I went back to the store, bought some mild paint remover, and removed the touch-ups. I then needed to use polishing compound to bring back the sheen and I'm now where I was following the removal of Henry Botley's name and town. And that means that I'm all set for whenever my artist son can come here to pen my name and town. Tentatively, we had scheduled that for this coming weekend.
Following getting the dial ready, I proceeded to put on another coat of wax on the dial door, hood and the entire clock case. I will put yet another coat on tomorrow. Shortly, I should have enough shine on the dial door to go ahead and add the knob and install the hinges and the glass. The case will need several more coats of wax. Please enjoy today's pics below! click to enlarge.
Today, I continued my quest to find paint that properly matched my dial face and, after several more trips to the store and test painting, my wife revealed that she thought it looked best before I started messing with any touch-ups. So, I went back to the store, bought some mild paint remover, and removed the touch-ups. I then needed to use polishing compound to bring back the sheen and I'm now where I was following the removal of Henry Botley's name and town. And that means that I'm all set for whenever my artist son can come here to pen my name and town. Tentatively, we had scheduled that for this coming weekend.
Following getting the dial ready, I proceeded to put on another coat of wax on the dial door, hood and the entire clock case. I will put yet another coat on tomorrow. Shortly, I should have enough shine on the dial door to go ahead and add the knob and install the hinges and the glass. The case will need several more coats of wax. Please enjoy today's pics below! click to enlarge.