{"id":707,"date":"2018-04-24T22:04:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T05:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brenorbrophy.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2018-04-24T22:04:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T05:04:25","slug":"wooden-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brenorbrophy.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/24\/wooden-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooden Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had an idea to create a simple wooden clock face where the familiar clock dial was evoked through the basic shape and grain of the material. I wanted to try to wrap the wood grain around a full circle with subtle changes in grain direction marking the hour divisions. Originally I was just going to make one clock with red oak but there was a lovely bit of walnut that I couldn’t resist buying at the same time and I also ended up with apiece of oak twice as long as I needed. So three clocks with only 2.5 times the effort.<\/p>\n

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Cutting the 30-degree triangle sections using a miter gauge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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No matter how carefully you adjust the miter gauge, errors accumulate. So the best I could do was get as close to 90-degrees for 3 sections but be slightly over so I could trim to square later.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The basic idea of wrapping the grain around 360 degrees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here’s the sections as they came out of the piece of 5.5″ wide stock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here’s the Walnut sections before glue up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gluing a quarter section together, finicky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Four quarter sections stacked up ready to square up on the table saw cross-cut sled.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gluing 4 quarter sections together. This wasn’t the best way and it left me with some gaps to fill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The three clock faces sanded with first coat of finish. I started with the water based Varathane satin polyurethane, but I really didn’t like the results after a couple of coats. So I sanded it off and started again with Arm-R-Seal wipe on polyurethane which worked much better.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I found these very neat brass key-slot plugs for hanging onto a screw head and I fabricated wooden holders to attach them to the backside of the clock face.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gluing the key-slot to the back of the clock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Three finished clocks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an idea to create a simple wooden clock face where the familiar clock dial was evoked through the basic shape and grain of the material. I wanted to try to wrap the wood grain around a full circle with subtle changes in grain direction marking the hour divisions. Originally I was just going … Continue reading “Wooden Clock”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brenorbrophy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brenorbrophy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brenorbrophy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenorbrophy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenorbrophy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenorbrophy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenorbrophy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenorbrophy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brenorbrophy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenorbrophy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenorbrophy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}