Bas,
Those are great! They will love them. What issue of Wood?
As mentioned, issue 198 (July 2010). But you can also get the
plans from Meisel.
Look great Bas; where did you get the clock faces?
The
hardware kit (item #3189) costs $17 plus shipping. They actually sent me a spare clock face, so if you buy your own clock movement and hands, you're welcome to it. It's nothing fancy, thin cardboard, with some plastic coating on the face side.
I have been anxiously awaiting the pics since you mentioned the round over/sanding issues you had. You obviously overcame that issue, with grace!
I basically turned a mistake into a feature. Blended the roundover a little, and used Waxilit to prevent any glue issues.
Great job on those clocks Bas :eusa_clap Gotta love that cherry, it was a good choice and my favorite wood to work with. How much time do you have in them. As soon as i saw them in Wood I knew it would be a good project for my gandson.
There's a lot of hours in these clocks, but primarily because I made some errors in my approach. My brilliant idea was to first make a template out of MDF (easy to shape), since I was doing more than one clock. Well, making the template was easy, but there's a lot of end grain in this project that is difficult to route. Unless you have very predictable grain in your lumber (ha!) and VERY sharp spiral flush trim bits, you're better off going the sanding route. So I wasted quite a bit of time on the templates. Also, be very careful about the order in which you do your glueup, or you're sanding the same areas multiple times. Taming glue squeezeout was also a pain, I learned a LOT from this project. 10 minutes of extra prep saves hours of sanding and scraping.
In retrospect, rather than laminating three layers of cherry (per the pans), it might have been better to use two layers (8/4 and 4/4 stock). Things also look better if you use wide boards (12"), I glued up panels and there are faint glue lines in various places.
So no, I won't answer how many hours I have in these
You will definitely need an oscillating spindle sander for the project, so if you've been contemplating getting one, this is the project to justify it.
