My Goddard Newport Tallcase Clock
LJ Mark recently sent me a note and noticed I’d been off line for a while and asked what I was working on. Well, after finishing up my Pembroke table in November, I began a long-delayed tall case clock project. It actually began about twenty years when I was very taken with a Bartley Newport Clock they were offering as a kit, but being stubborn, I wanted to make it myself. So I ordered all the parts (movement, face, pendulum, weights) from Hermle, intending to build the same clock. For many reasons the project kept dropping off the top of the project list till this winter. However, on revisiting the clock, I decided to change the form from the gooseneck Goddard clock, to an e...