Reproduction 1760's Black Dial Clock

This clock started out as one of my first very bad eBay purchases. The clock was, what I thought was, a nice schoolhouse clock, but in fact it was a very damaged celluloid coated Meiji clock, which had missing finials, missing side frets, and a missing bottom "roll" (also with finials). The clock had been badly reglued together in places, and it had flaked portions which could not be fixed. I decided to clean up the movement, and keep only the movement and hardware. I still have the case, but it will likely be trashed at some point.

With that said, I had the movement laying around for the longest time, until I bought the book "Wooden Clock Cases" by David Bryant. In this clock is a gorgeous early black dial clock, with plans on how to build it. My movement did not fit the case well, so I modified it to fit into a drop-dial style case, but keeping the black dial.

The dial is made from a thick piece of pine, which I set up onto my lathe. The case is made of oak, and features a top door (should I need to lift the strike's count hook), and a bottom door to access the pendulum.

The hands were hand-cut from the patterns provided in the book. And I painted the dial myself using gold paint. Not counting the eBay clock's original parts, I only spent about 10$ to make this clock.