My neighbors are moving, and decided that their new abode would never contain the amount of furniture and sundry stuff they owned, so they decided to have an estate sale. He fixes and collects clocks, so you can imagine the bounty he had.
Also imagine being inside the house when ALL THE CLOCKS STRIKE TWELVE.
After the ringing in my ears subsided, I made my way over to the crafting room, which in truth is a detached garage. MORE CLOCKS!!! But boy howdy, did I score!
LOOK AT ALL THOSE GEARS AND COGS AND GOODIES!!!
Just the thing for a collage for Eldest’s room. Oh, and they had a small table that, with a bit of care, will fit right in. Time for me to jet, since I still have to turn my Dollar Tree™ finds into Victorian Steampunk masterpieces. I’m pretty sure I’m more excited than she is, but I don’t care. As long as she leaves some of it behind when she moves out 😉
September 22nd, 2012 at 12:54 PM
A whole house of twelve-o’clocks… whew.
I’m also told that an ensemble of numerous oscillators like clocks will tend to synchronize yet have not the hearing to tell if the clocks in such a place start to tick in synchronization. Were you able to hear such a phenomenon? (I’m assuming there were lots of pendulum clocks of course)
You dog-ette regarding the find of clocks and gears. I’m green-patina’ed with envy.
September 22nd, 2012 at 1:11 PM
He has stuff in boxes to be worked on. Let me know if you want any. He had plenty of clock innards.
And no….I couldn’t tell if there was synchronicity, The Police notwithstanding. I was starting to feel my brain matter split.
September 22nd, 2012 at 2:14 PM
Shi… I mean, HECK yeah! Lots of innards, please. I’m big into innards.
September 22nd, 2012 at 1:23 PM
Oooooooooo, clocks! Awesomeness!
Been wanting to build a wooden clock, print out the gear diagrams, transfer them to wood, cut/varnish/assemble…that would be awesome!
BTW, shoot me an email, I found a couple of StarWars pics online that you will like (but probably already have)
September 23rd, 2012 at 9:58 AM
I had no idea you could build a clock in that manner! You learn something new every day 🙂
Will shoot you an email today!
September 24th, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Just a few cool sites I found whilst bored one afternoon. ‘nuttin scarier than a bored tinkerer with a broadband connection. Well…maybe one who has room on his credit card ,and an understanding wife.
http://www.instructables.com/id/wooden-gear-clock-1/step2/Materials/
http://www.foxchapelpublishing.com/product_p/ssw42.htm
http://lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/Claytonsite1.htm
September 24th, 2012 at 9:03 PM
I can see where that could sink you!
September 22nd, 2012 at 3:03 PM
Cool treasures! My father in law did clock restoration for several years. I expect us to have a lot of old clocks dumped on us in the next few years as they decide to downsize and simplify…
My grandfather was also into clocks, but nothing fancy or antique. No, he liked the clocks that trilled with birdsong, horse whinnies, frog ribbits, waterfalls, flushing toilets… etc. Yanno… classy stuff. 🙂 He made sure they all went off at different times, too. Had to make sure they were all properly appreciated…It was impossible to sleep in that house. 🙂
September 23rd, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Just the thought of being in that house makes me cringe, Nicole. It sounds like Bedlam, only not as organized 😀
September 24th, 2012 at 10:40 AM
You do know that in ancient South American countries, they used to bury women with all of their unfinished “projects”, right?
I’ve already told Mr. TiFW he’d better not even try it……