Antique Seth Thomas Bradford shellac and reassembly

All right, hello, this is Antique Clock and today I'm working on this 19, between 1913 and 1923, Seth Thomas Bradford. And you can see it's a little tiny clock and there was nothing wrong with the clock. You can see the movement here, it's a 41S movement. I don't know if you can see that, 41S right there. You can remove the catch and the verge and everything. Here's Seth Thomas logo. This little clock runs really nice. I'd actually not seen one before I bought this one. So here's the pendulum for it. I'm gonna let it run for a second so you can hear it before I reassemble it. All right, that's my Samuel Bentley and there it is running. Let me get to work now on putting this thing back together. All right, so this clock I took it apart because I didn't like the finish on it. I don't know if you can see in the reflection, I hit it with some shellac and it just gave it a really nice shiny finish. I put about three coats on. This is the trap door and it just kind of took the clock up a notch, made it really nice. So that's the reason I took this one apart. I had never shellacked anything before or used this type of finish. So I just wanted to give it a really nice finish for this little clock. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with it yet. Okay, I just sped up this clip so to spare you details. I'm just trying to put the little screws, get the hinges and the bottom trap door set, get the door set so it will latch correctly, open and close and stay closed. Sometimes those little screws when you have big hands are kind of hard to get set in there and get the hinges square and to make sure nothing binds the bottom door. All right, so I've got the bottom door on. It closes nicely. Latch is good on the little latch. Now I'm gonna take and I'm gonna put the face on and the hands. I've got the face and the hands right sitting right over here. You can see them. I'm gonna go ahead and put those on real quick. Sorry about that. All you can see was my elbow so I moved the camera to give you a better angle. So I'm just putting these little screws in around the edges here. Okay, I've got them started. This little latch piece that I just dropped, it just slides right under here like that. Let me tighten these screws down. All right, now I'm gonna put the hands back on. Remember this is the hour hand. The hour hand has this little collar right here. Make sure this collar does not rub against the face. If it does, you need to kind of shift the face accordingly. Okay, it's 8 15. Okay, this is hella my friction. Here's the minute hand. Okay, it's square. This is square. Okay, eight o'clock. Let me double check both sides. Okay, it's a nicer side. We've got this washer that goes on. You can see it's pretty small. I'm sure there's a technical name for it. I don't know what it is. All right, and then I'm gonna put the wedge pin, a pair of pliers. Wedge pin does not have to be super tight in there. It's just to keep tension on. I'm happy with that. Not beautiful, but it works. What else? All right, I've got to put the glass. You know what? I messed up. I needed to put this down first. This ring goes underneath right here. So let me take it back apart. This right there. Again, the closer you get the shaft to center on the hole, the less likely your hands will be to rub on it. Again, I really like this ratcheting screwdriver. It fits nicely in my hand and it's ratcheting here, but it's got this thing on the end, so you can literally just keep turning it in your hand. I got it at Home Depot, or excuse me, from Lowe's. It's called a Project Source. It was on like a little end cap in the tool section. All right, be careful putting these things back in. If your screwdriver comes off, you can mar the finish like I just did twice. We are all back in. Let me put the hands on now. Some of these minute hands have a bushing in them where you can adjust it like for the time. This one does not, so it actually turns the internals. Don't forget this little washer here. Little wedge pin. Most clocks I've encountered either have a screw here or this little wedge pin system. Wedge pin's in. Good. It's centered. This glass in. Due to the fact this is like a hundred-year-old glass, I do not want to break the glass. All right, let me go hang it on the wall. So the Bradford is done. Back on the wall. Just note if you buy one of these little clocks, or even the square gallery clocks, they can be a little difficult to get perfectly square to time, so it's beating on even beat. But you can hear it. It's running good. It's a great little clock. Hands are back on. I think if you look you can actually see the second hand moving. I need to adjust this a little bit. You see that? I just knocked it, and see I knocked it out of time. So these little clocks are going to be terrible, but you can see I did shellac it. I like the shiny finish on it. Shiny finish on it. Not a perfect shellac job, but I'm pretty happy the way this little Bradford turned out. Okay, thank you. This is antique clocks. Keep working on them. Keep them going. Keep the history alive on these little clocks. These old clocks. Thank you.