Things I've seen from a distance

[Smallpatch]

It might not be the correct way to build these but.

 

These clocks are the rest of the story from a couple of days ago when I was showing the outside of those oddly colored ash wood clock bodies.

 

These clock bodies I was showing in another post do hang on the wall.

 

One of the guys on that X, X means long gone, wood site had suggested why didn't I make the boxes round? So being very slow I am still running that through my computer head so why didn't I make them round. Only explain I can come up with is I didn't see any round wood laying around at the time in my little life. So now I am happy to report we have just this month bought some trees at the nursery that grows round wood so I will be making some round clock bodies after the trees gets a little larger.

 

This is what the clock bodies hang on.

 

You can see I try to never make no two things alike.

    This good ole female wife I got, Its good now a days to signify which kind of wife might live in the same house as you, was good enough to make me some pieces of glass for the clock faces. You can see I requested, and got, clear and colored wavy types of glass. With her contribution I think we finally got the price of these clocks all the way up to 10 or 12  bucks each, thats including a battery for the movements. Nothing is too good for my customers............. Did you catch that line, requested from my wife????? Sometimes a request and an order might sound the same to her and you might know what she might do if I order her to do anything........

Such a sweet wife I do have.

Using this wavy glass, will hide lot of flaws in your building ability right quick.

This is how I size things up or you might say my computer drawings. If it don't fit, it don't fit, so change computers.

 

 

You see I can get intimate with some of the recipantants. Bailey's my grand daughter.

Notice, I used, not included in this picture, a 1/4" diameter all thread, to be cut from a 36 inch piece, for the hanger rod and the topper was once a wrought iron fence topper. Cut the square female bottom off the topper, tap 1/4 x 20 threads up into the remainder of what's left of the topper and wa-la you got something pretty to hold the clock to the wrought iron hanger. Spray it black after cleaning up the weld and you are in business.

 

 

For the movements I used the atomic type so called movement cause they set themselves so every time the battery runs out, the only thing a person has to do is replace the battery and the time will set auto- matic- lee.

 

 

I like to leave all the wood flaws in plain sight. It gives the owners of them more to talk about when discussing their new 10 dollar clock..

    I have more fun trying to come up with plans of my own than having to use someone else's plans. 

 

 

My pet peeve is reading about this guy who bought a set of plans and what he built was a square table that had 4 legs. Then he complained because the plans was not clearly marked and he made a mistake and had to go and buy more wood......... To me this sounds like a guy who might have the qualities to run for president or some important office.

 

Also if you are careful when laying out the wood for the clock frame you can make the wood grain go all the way around the frame with each piece matching. 

 

[Chips N Dust]

You are really getting some great inspiration for clocks and they are all tuning out GREAT!

[Gene Howe]

Your clocks are magnificent and your commentary is hilarious. Your photos are good, too. But the last one???

[Gerald]

I can see all except where is the wavy glass going. Is that the glass outside the clock? Thanks for the PIP. I have tried to get away from clocks after retirement and then went and put up 3 clocks in the shop so I would not miss supper.

[HandyDan]

Looking good Jess.  Nice having a wife that cuts glass.

[Smallpatch]

Gene this is what you would see if you were the clock hands looking out through the glass.

Edited September 8, 2016 by Smallpatch

[Smallpatch]

Gerald these pieces are the lens of the clocks. The wavy glass in my weird mind will make people stop and think did I just see something different or did that drink I just had have more than the prune juice and a raw egg which is my normal drink. The wavy glass makes things change in strange ways and they might see something they like in that clock. Sometimes it takes something different and odd to make people buy something they didn't even need or want when they came in to look around.

[Smallpatch]

Each glass has a different texture and a different color to it and no two will be the same when looking at the hands or the numbers of each clock. I got to be different.

[schnewj]

59 minutes ago, Gerald said:

I can see all except where is the wavy glass going. Is that the glass outside the clock? Thanks for the PIP. I have tried to get away from clocks after retirement and then went and put up 3 clocks in the shop so I would not miss supper.

 

Your missing out, Gerald! You can buy seven day movements. With every rotation of the big hand the little one moves to the next day. Print out your clock face, put it together and you'll always know what day it is.

 

I sometimes gain or loose a day, which can raise havoc with my mother's medical social calendar. Fortunately, I've never failed to get her to an appointment yet. However, I digress.

 

Print out your prefered clock face. Mine is; Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

[Chips N Dust]

2 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

 I got to be different.

Yes you do Jess. But, that is why we like you and love seeing what you are building!

[Gene Howe]

Thanks, Jesse. I actually figured it out. But, too chagrined to admit it. Takes me a while but eventually I might sometimes get there....maybe.

Edited September 8, 2016 by Gene Howe

[HandyDan]

4 hours ago, schnewj said:

 

Your missing out, Gerald! You can buy seven day movements. With every rotation of the big hand the little one moves to the next day. Print out your clock face, put it together and you'll always know what day it is.

 

I sometimes gain or loose a day, which can raise havoc with my mother's medical social calendar. Fortunately, I've never failed to get her to an appointment yet. However, I digress.

 

Print out your prefered clock face. Mine is; Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

So what happens when the time changes and leap year?

[Steve Krumanaker]

Now I like those!!

 

Steve

[Grandpadave52]

Patch, Your creative talent and eye is beyond remarkable. These are so unique and off the wall (no pun intended, well maybe a little) spectacular. They have to be an interior designer/decorator's dream come true. As always thanks for sharing.

 

BTW, you think these special round wood tree things will really catch on or just a fad? 

[Cliff]

nice  clock~!!

 

[Ron Altier]

Wonderful work. I've made a lot of clocks, cuckoo, grandfather, wall, etc. Don't think mine look that good. NICE!

[Smallpatch]

     Dan this movement after the hands are installed on 12, second hand also, a pin on the back has to be removed before the battery is inserted. Meaning the guts don't know where the hands are pointing, this is where a human has to offer his or her help in making this movement do its thing, so everything has to stay in sink, not kitchen type.

   Dan this particular movement does the daylight savings time thingy supposedly at 2 in the morning. But we decided to sit there one time and wait and see what happens. We were putting puzzles together and walked into the living room at nine that night and wa la the clock had already added an hour. Now we know the time at our house does the time change around 9 pm..

 When you first put a battery in a new movement it will sit there and do nothing for maybe an hour or two then all of a sudden the minute hand starts moving and it will make an hours revolution in about 15 seconds. And sometimes it won't stop moving for ten minutes which on the dial it might have gone 12 hours. When the battery runs out, insert a new one and it will start moving that fast again until it gets to the right time. Going back in the fall the movement sits there doing nothing for an hour. I might be wrong but I think when first installing that movement it sometimes will turn backwards for a while but it never stops at the correct time. It only stops at the correct time running forward......You see when explaining one of these, people will think you are nuts so its best to take the politicians route and say, duh, that question was not supposed to be asked. I take the third amendment on that one. 

There's more to this movement, all three hands, if using a second hand, have to be installed all on the 12 oclock time and a pin, locking the movement at that time has to be removed before the battery is installed. Then sooner or later it will be on the correct time. Then later if one has to remove the hands for any reason, he should  wait until the hands all are on 12 o'clock again before taking the battery out, then insert the pin again so it will stay in sink, not kitchen sink,again for when the battery is inserted again...You might have guessed it but there is a hole the pin goes it to and that hole only shows up when the hands are all on 12 ....making it stay in s---

    Now, they have movements with a chip added so daylight saving time will be automatically set for the next 35 years.......I guess if any states votes down that law those movements would have to be trashed. But I still like to use the Atomic model as this is called from Klockit.

    Just kindly ask something that don't take a lot of words next time for an answer........ I'm missing my favorite, How-de-du-de on TV...............We have a very old TV and that's about all the shows we can get besides Band Stand..

[HandyDan]

29 minutes ago, Smallpatch said:

     Dan

    Just kindly ask something that don't take a lot of words next time for an answer........ I'm missing my favorite, How-de-du-de on TV...............We have a very old TV and that's about all the shows we can get besides Band Stand..

 

Jess, I don't mean to run you out of words.  I have a few words saved up in a high interest account and will surely lend tou some if you really need them.  You need to look for Lucy.  She is in my squawk box.

 

[Smallpatch]

She was okay but didn't care for the Rickety type!.

 

I use to have some of those words in special accounts also but right after 9/11 my words turned into

high- funs!!