Antique cuckoo clock restoration part 4 :2

There's a little bit of the door frame that's in there, I'm going to clean those edges up and glue in a new bit. That's quite a good match for the base colour, the browns I'll put on next with the pigments and the polish. Initially I thought there would be a back splat on the bottom of this, there's a couple of pinholes there but they're not really enough to hold one on. So this is what I drew up. The centre resembles these bits down the side and across the middle. But the more I look at it the less convinced I am that it had anything at all. So we're going to leave it with nothing. I have some great news. A viewer has very kindly sent me this image of the same clock. Thanks Shane, much appreciated. There are some slight differences but it does show me that this bottom piece is carved and it's at the front and not a splat at the back. It just shows you when you try and invent things, make things up, you can be miles out as I was here. Which is why I don't like doing it that way. I'd sooner know exactly what's missing and make it. Finials are wrong. The top finial is different although this one could be correct because this was off another clock. It was a table version of this so it is sort of right but I will probably can't make one of those anyway. The reason I wasn't so sure about this one is because it has a flat base to it on a carved curved top. But that one's the same so it must be okay. Some of the differences are this chevron thing. This shallow fluting goes around is all in the same direction on that one and this one's a mirror image. Looks better there actually. This fretwork is carved on that one. This one has double doors with a bit of carving on. That's a single plain door. These top pieces are semi-circles on this one and square on that. So there's loads of little differences but that's quite common with cuckoo clocks. They never seem to make the same thing twice even if it's the same model. This does have a model number and it is number 254 and it's a Bihar. So that's all good news. So I will have to start drawing this up and get back on the drawing board. Make a pattern for all missing bits and start again virtually. A lot of it's okay, all this bit around here is fine. And the side door, there's a lot of work in that so that's no problem. These are not that big a deal. So I'll turn some new ones, turn a new top one, make this carving. And I'll bring you that as soon as I can.