With the rapid rise in postage costs around the world, my clock buying has all but come to a stand still. My preference is for single weight Vienna regulators. Given the packaged size of these, the postage has always been high but lately the postage has become totally unrealistic. Anyway, I have a half dozen or more Vienna movements, so I decided to dust off my limited carpentry skills and make a case for one of them.
This is my take on a six glass Austrian Vienna regulator case. I am building it out of 100% locally sourced Tasmanian timber. The bulk of the case is Tasmanian Myrtle (Nothofagus cunninghamii) and the lighter pieces around the top are Tasmanian Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon). I am waiting on some book matched veneer for the backboard cut from a Tasmania Oak Burr (which isn't Oak at all and is actually Eucalyptus regnans). This will hang on my wall so I am building it to suit my eye, not to pass off as authentic. My skills are far too limited to fool anyone ;-) But so far, I'm pleased with my progress.
This is my take on a six glass Austrian Vienna regulator case. I am building it out of 100% locally sourced Tasmanian timber. The bulk of the case is Tasmanian Myrtle (Nothofagus cunninghamii) and the lighter pieces around the top are Tasmanian Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon). I am waiting on some book matched veneer for the backboard cut from a Tasmania Oak Burr (which isn't Oak at all and is actually Eucalyptus regnans). This will hang on my wall so I am building it to suit my eye, not to pass off as authentic. My skills are far too limited to fool anyone ;-) But so far, I'm pleased with my progress.




