Clock face

I designed this in Aspire, cut in .835" oak with a nice knot hole in it. Sent to X-carve with UGS. I’m still deciding on what stain/paints to use, so it’s unfinished for now. I bought the quartz clock movement off of ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/221936597291?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Since the wood was so thick, I had to cut a pocket for the clock mechanism to sit in so that I could get enough of the movement post to stick through.

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Nice, where did you get the pattern from?

A knot hole is a matter of taste, I like my clockfaces to be clean, but i suppose i am old fashioned :slight_smile:

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Nice I think the knot is perfect and in the right spot. I really like the pattern as well

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I got the pattern from the Vectric library, weave #32-iii. I meant for the knot hole to be closer to center, but now that it cut out the way it did, I’m starting to like it more as is.

Nice work.

For the pedants, if you look at lots of traditional clocks, you’ll also find the number 4 is usually “IIII” instead of “IV”.

Apparently King someone-or-other liked the numbering done this way, and so it became the norm.

Just sayin…

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I really like the knot location actually, makes it more of a ‘one off’ piece, to each their own I suppose. Please do post the final version when it’s complete.

As a matter of interest, are you selling this piece or are you just playing around/doing it for a friend? Not interested in buying, more interested in he motivation behind it :wink:

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Thanks for the feedback guys. In the end, I’ll attempt to sell some clocks, although I am sure family members will put in orders as well…this one might end up staying in my house since it is unique, but I’ll have to confer with my CEO (wife) on what she would like to do with it.

I should have pictures of the finished product to post tomorrow.

Here’s the finished product…used black paint for the numerals/clock markings and golden oak stain on everything else, and a couple thick coats of spray on poly.


The stain was applied first, and after that dried, I sprayed on a couple coats of poly. My wife then used a small brush to apply the black paint…then another coat of poly to seal it all up.

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Here’s the same design cut in poplar (without the clock mechanism/hands installed), using natural stain.


It came out fairly nice, especially with the poplar coloring, although I had some tear out on some of the finer details, and then after spraying the poly, the grain raised up making it look bumpy. Of course I didn’t really notice it until after a couple coats of poly, so I wasn’t able to sand all of it down.

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