barb.j.enders Posted March 13, 2023 Report Share Posted March 13, 2023 Looking great. Thanks for the update. OCtoolguy and kmmcrafts 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meflick Posted March 13, 2023 Report Share Posted March 13, 2023 That’s looking great Kevin. Curious how you did the arms? Also, what’s the overall size? Did you increase or decrease from pattern noted as a source (that was not cut from wood.) How much bigger would it need to be increased if y you wanted to use a pendulum clock piece do you think? Where would you get that pendulum clock piece? OCtoolguy and kmmcrafts 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted March 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2023 @meflick I haven't actually made the arms yet, what you see is here is the shoulders. I used 1" round dowel rod and then used different size Forestner drill bits to create the spiral look. Honestly I haven't measured the overall size of this so a rough guess is maybe 10 - 12 inch tall? I'm probably way off on that guess as I'm sometimes bad at these guesses. I'll measure it next time I tape things back together for test fitting pieces. I didn't change any dimensions from the pattern from the source, just printed and started piecing things together. The shortest pendulum I could find was 5" if I remember correctly and I'm not sure what the diameter of the larger part is but the inside of the area where it's hollowed out isn't very large and most pendulums I've seen have a fairly large diameter which I didn't think would look right and wouldn't allow it to swing very well so I scraped that idea and just cut a wood one and did a 3" clock insert instead. I've never made a pendulum clock so I wasn't to sure of myself on how it'd all work. The clocks I've seen for them are just the clock movement / motor and you buy / make a face and install the hands etc. onto it. It does take a special motor for use with the pendulum and they are not cheap ( in my opinion ). Just the pendulum was around $20 if I remember correct.. plus the special motor was like another $15 -20.. which is another reason I didn't try any harder than I did to make it work. The pendulum clocks and parts etc can be bought at most of the online clock parts sources.. I shopped my main go to sites like clockparts.com, klockit.com, woodworkingparts.com, bearwood etc.. I don't remember who had the better deals now. To do over again I might have hollowed out some of the parts.. I cut the torso and the head etc from I think it was 3/4" walnut and they are three layers I glued together so it's pretty heavy.. going to cost me a fortune to ship it to FL. LOL The head only has the front piece hollowed out for the clock insert. I think I'm going to take a forestner bit and drill through it a decent size hole because I set the clock in there and it's hard to grab onto it to pull it out to change a battery or set time etc.. To do over, I might have cut through all of them and maybe make a magnetic back door piece to remove to get easier access to the clock. Maybe I'll post some more detailed pictures of the pieces / parts of it to give an idea what I did. Kinda funny but the clock looked pretty nifty with just the feet and everything except the torso as I just dry fitted it with the lower section and then the clock on top.. Looked like some high end executive clock or something kinda fancy looking.. might have to make some like that, LOL OCtoolguy and meflick 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Fengstad Posted March 14, 2023 Report Share Posted March 14, 2023 Coming along well waiting for the final kmmcrafts and OCtoolguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted March 14, 2023 Report Share Posted March 14, 2023 Looking good Kevin. kmmcrafts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meflick Posted March 15, 2023 Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 (edited) Thanks for the detail reply Kevin. I will continue to watch your progress and learn from your info. Edited March 17, 2023 by meflick Editing OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted March 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 (edited) You are welcome, Thank you Edited March 17, 2023 by kmmcrafts Remove sensitive information meflick and OCtoolguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted March 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2023 On 3/15/2023 at 12:50 PM, meflick said: Thanks for the detail reply Kevin. I will continue to watch your progress and learn from your info. You are welcome, Thank you meflick and OCtoolguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted March 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) Well I guess I’m about done messing with this guy. Struggled with how I wanted to do the arms and I finally settled on something simple. Overall it worked out pretty good. Sprayed a couple coats of Lacquer on it today. May do a light sanding and shoot another coat on it in a couple days. Was a fun and sometimes monstrous project that I had to put down and work on something else before I got mad and throw it. I will never make another one as It’s not my style of wood art to make. Almost declined making it in the first place and probably should have. But it is for a special occasion and person. Edit: Yes the clock lens is cracked, it's a old clock that I keep out in the shop to test fit when making projects.. I'll throw in a new clock before giving it to her. LOL.. My wife keeps on reminding me I can't use that clock in it because it's broke, LOL.. I keep messing with her saying it's not broke the clock works fine.. just has a crack in it, Edited March 28, 2023 by kmmcrafts meflick, Fab4, OCtoolguy and 3 others 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barb.j.enders Posted March 28, 2023 Report Share Posted March 28, 2023 It looks amazing Kevin. Great work. Sometimes simple is best. kmmcrafts and OCtoolguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrappile Posted March 28, 2023 Report Share Posted March 28, 2023 Wow, Kevin, I think you did a great job on what I thought was going to be an impossible clock! Congrats! kmmcrafts and OCtoolguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjweb Posted March 28, 2023 Report Share Posted March 28, 2023 You have done well Kevin, RJ kmmcrafts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessL Posted April 10, 2023 Report Share Posted April 10, 2023 Wow, that looks amazing. So professional looking! kmmcrafts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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