The Naked Clock

[nine fingers]

Grandfather fully exposed.
This wooden geared clock is an origional,one off design.
I wanted to construct a clock that had the hour and minute wheels not showing on the front of the case,as most wooden gear clocks have.
I lost count of the hours spent,sketching ideas for the gear layouts before I settled on this design. The wheels (gears) were cut from satin box (not segmented). Lignum vitae was used for the arbors,bushes,timing wheel teeth and the pallets.
The only metal in the clock working is the arbor to carry the weights ,and a couple of grub screws.
Time keeping is on a par with most wooden clocks,variation is mainy due to atmospheric conditions.
Rather than being an accurate time clock,I wanted to construct a coversation peice,hence the unusual shape of the skeleton.
Nine Fingers.

[nine fingers]

Sorry about the thumbnails on there side. nine fingers

[Bleedin Thumb]

I'm blown away! Fantastic! I really would like to know how many hours you put into this.

[Ian Smith]

John, let me help. It looks like the auto resize is not so "auto" - it errored out saying it was unable to resize the pictures so our efforts weren't wasted.

Just so there's no confusion, the clock pictured here is the very impressive work of Nine Fingers - I am merely a humble assistant

Ian

[DJ’s Timber]

Absulotly sensational:eek:

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

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[Flowboy]

Sensational Mr Fingers, Sen-sational

Regards

Rob ( 8 fingers and two thumbs)

[KevM]

Wow........superb.

You mentioned that the gears were not segmented, most clockmakers I know build their's up from segments to ensure that for strength, the teeth are always cut on the end grain to eliminate the possibility of breakage. It will be interesting to see how they last/wear. What method do you use to cut your gears?

Kev M

[nine fingers]

Firstly I must thank Ian Smith for all the effort in helping me get the photos
posted. I had used irfanView before,but I couldn't get it to resize these photos down to the size required this time. I can handle a peice of wood ,but I'm bloody hopeless with cameras and computors.

KevM, a previous thread of mine wooden geared clocks shows how I cut the gears. Satin box is very fine grained hardwood,out of all the teeth cut only had a couple of small chips.

Will have the clocks on show at the Barwon Valley Woodwrights exhibition here in Geelong on November 4th and 5th.
Nine Fingers.

[Paul Chapman]

Fabulous work, Mr Fingers ;)

Cheers

Paul

[DPB]

W:)W!

[AlexS]

That's absolutely amazing - I don't know how anyone can have the patience and technical skill to do that.


I had used irfanView before,but I couldn't get it to resize these photos down to the size required this time.

I think they must have done something to Irfanview. I recently had to reinstall it, and some of the resize functions no longer work.

[Andy Mac]

Amazing work, thanks for posting the photos!


Cheers,

[Gumby]

I'll join in the chorus, it's bloody brilliant. :)

You should be rightly pround of that work NF. ;)

[Waldo]

Wow!

[Jim Carroll]

Great work John, as always up to your excellent standard.

Look forward to seeing it in the flesh next weekend at the Barwon Valley Woodwrights show.

What are the dimensions, to get a better idea of size.

[nine fingers]

Jim, the clock stands 1980 mm overall .1700 mm to centre of dial.
The biggest wheel is 152mm and has 64teeth.
Catch up with you next weekend Nine Fingers.

[Auld Bassoon]

That is stunning!

I'm boggling at the precision (and time!) that it must take to make the mechanism.

Greenie launched!

[Sculptured Box]

nine fingers (http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/member.php?u=1801)

Congratulations ~ great work, it is inspirational!

[tazchris]

Absolutely great work.I look with admiration at your clock ,knowing that you spent many hours getting it right.