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Wooden gear clock

comments (2) June 6th, 2011 in Reader's Gallery

djgtor, member

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This is a wooden gear clock that I recently designed. All the gears are baltic birch plywood, The rest of the clock is made from walnut, birch, and maple. All arbors and spacers are polished brass. The gears and intricate parts are all milled using a homebrew CNC machine that I built myself. I decided to design the clock dial to look like a port hole on a ship. I then thought it would be fun to integrated a tidal indicator into the frame of the clock. The indicator is polished brass which has a patina created using salt and ammonia to bring out some blue and greens. The indicator is then applied to the face of a gear. The indicator rotates about once every 12 hrs 25 minutes. The current view of the indicator shows the tide is rising. The clock was finished using 2 coats of tung oil and paste wax. Runs like clockwork! Time to start the next one...

Design or Plan used: My own design

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YOUNGNICK writes: Lovely work! You obviously know of John Harrison who still has 3 of his wooden movement clocks still running; the first built in 1713, so if yours stands up as well as that.....but I love the simplicity of your clocks, so bring us some more!
Posted: 1:37 am on June 10th