A 2022 In-Depth look at my Colonial Grandfather Clock

So I kind of get the feeling this video is long overdue. I've gotten several and I mean several requests to make this video and I have finally gotten the motivation to do it. So you might be wondering why we're focusing on the colonial grandfather clock. This is going to be a rather special video because in this video I am going to be doing another in-depth look at this clock. I know I've already done one but I at this point have gotten a whole boatload of requests to do this and now that I just moved I think this is the perfect time to do this. I'm gonna go over the full history and story about this clock. I'm gonna chime it on all three chime selections and pretty much showcase everything about it because this clock means a lot to me and it's one of my most popular clocks in my collection. So to begin I'm gonna get into how specifically I got this. So if you're a new viewer I would recommend watching this but if you've known me for a while you probably already know how I've gotten this. But for new viewers here it is. It was back in mid-2018 and I still did not have any grandfather clocks in my collection at the time. Well I didn't have a single one for quite some time but in 2018 a friend of mine came to visit my clock collection in person and here's what happened next. I was then told that this person had this grandfather clock in his shed and it had sat there for about 15 years or so. So this person actually works for a landfill and one day someone dropped this clock off and this person I know he found this in the dumpster and he decided to take it and he took it back to his shed where it sat for like 15 years. Then he saw my collection like I just said. Then he remembered he had this clock in his shed so I'd say maybe a week or so after he visited he came over in his pickup truck with this clock and all the parts and him and another friend of mine just hauled it down to our old basement. So yeah that's one interesting story and when I first got this thing it was just filthy. The whole case was covered in gunk, cobwebs, dirt, you name it. Covered in scratches. The door was damaged which I'll get into a little later and yeah this thing was just gross when I got it and at that point I wasn't sure what I was gonna do with it. Then at that point I finally got the urge and I totally cleaned out the whole case. Just cleaned out the glass made it look nice and shiny and got the weights hung on the pendulum all of that stuff. I oiled up the movement and at that point this clock was working perfectly. However the chimes were quite slow at first and I found out that was because I had the wrong weight on the chime side which I later realized and that has been fixed or was fixed actually. I'll get into why I said was in just a second but yeah this clock was pretty much fixed and it was working and now we're gonna get into the story of the door. This door was just sad. It was totally destructed. This whole side right here was just totally ripped off and the glass panels were also just missing pretty much. Well not really missing it did come with them but they were just separated. So this door really was totally destructed and I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get it fixed. But then in September of 2020 roughly two years after I got this clock I decided to take the door over to yet another friend of mine who is good at a lot of different woodworking projects and he just totally fixed the door up and just made it look like new. I think you can tell he also added this it looks like to hold the glass in and some of it all over and now this door just looks like new. There was a little scratch in the wood like right about here which you're probably wondering or seeing this discoloration right here. Yeah there was a bit of a discolor right there but he fixed that up I guess. It's still doesn't look perfect you can still kind of see it on camera but the door has been fixed and this thing is pretty much the way it was manufactured aka just like new condition other than a couple other scratches. So yeah one heck of a story of this clock which is pretty much the main reason why this clock is so special to me.