Thread: Tasmanian Myrtle and pine clock wip

Long time no hear Timber Stacker. Good to see you are still about.

Clock is looking good. Glad to see you are doing evrything you possibly can on the job.
It´s agreat way to learn. All the best with it and keep us posted.

Yeah, in the past couple of months I've started working again, as a cook at KFC. It was February that I got redundant from the Home Hardware timber yard. So I haven’t had all that much time for turning. That’s sort of why I'm doing this for school; so I can justify turning. These are the numbers and hands I made tonight from qld maple. I didn't end up turning the hands; it was just too hard to get them thin enough. So what I did was glue the veneer to a piece of aluminium can then cut them out with scissors.<O</O
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Looking good so far T.S. But you may have to change your name to Chicken Fixer (your new job). You are very lucky to be turning at your age, and should be world famous when you are my age.

I had a bit of a set back yesterday. I'm using iron on veneer for the numbers and I made the mistake of going I II III IIII IV. And I couldn't get the glue off so I had to re turn the face. After doing it for the second time I found it easier to use a soldering iron for the iron on veneers.

Sweet!!

A thought just occurred to me. Too late for current action but, I have some Celery Top pine at home. Would have bee a nice touch to use two Tasmanian timbers.

Good luck with the project when you submit it.

That is a really nice looking clock well done
I hope you will post a pic of the finished clock hands and all

Here are some pictures of my finished clock with the hands.
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Good job Timber Stacker, that's come out very well

I agree with KDM the end result is very nice

Are the hands, hand made if not where did you buy them from?

Sorry just answered my own question.

Very nice looking clock...well done