I have just completed
my latest wooden movement clock as seen in the first picture. This clock
is made from 3/8" Baltic Birch Plywood, Paduak, Rosewood, and Ebony. This
creation took about 100 hours to build....I think because I gave up counting
the hours after just 30 hours. Each wheel is totally different and only
two pinions (the small wheels) are the same. This means that each pattern
for the teeth was never used but once (unless you accidentally drop the
router into the form and take a chuck out of a tooth). A router was used
to cut each gullet between the teeth. This takes forever on the large 64
tooth wheel.
The clock was started for the
first time on Saturday February 12, 2000. It won a third place in the amateur
division of the February 2000 Scholarship Meeting for the Woodworker's
Guild of Georgia.
The design was purchased from
Marc Tovar's web site ---> www.wooden-clockworks.com
If you have never built this
clock before I would suggest that you give it much more time. I mde a few
modifications to the plans that include more bearings and steel pins in
brass bushings.
