The Woodshop Shed

Does anybody really know what time it is? - A clock project

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


I needed a living room clock, I prefer analog to help my kids learn to tell time, and I don't like any of the ones in teh store.
So I made this deco-style clock.The face is birdseye maple trimmed with sycamore to provide contrast. The middle layer is birch, and the back is sycamore – stuff I had sitting around that would contrast in layers but still work together.I spent time drawing out ideas on graph paper until I got angles and proportions that I thought looked good, then I used some trig to figure out what range of angles would be required for a given size of clock face. After determining all the angles, I worked with my Incra miter gage to cut those angles before realizing that was a huge pain in the butt to set up. So instead I used a protractor and straightedge to mark the cut lines, freehanded it on the bandsaw, and hand planed it to the line.It's finished with Minwax polycrylic and the numbers are vinyl stickers off eBay. Dry transfer probably would have looked more like what I wanted, but this was easier for a first clock project.First use for my router plane, routing out the back so the mechanism will fit snugly and is flush with the back layers.

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