The Naked Clock

**nine fingers** · 27th October 2006, 09:30 PM

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** · 27th October 2006, 09:34 PM

Sorry about the thumbnails on there side. nine fingers

**Bleedin Thumb** · 27th October 2006, 09:43 PM

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

**Ian Smith** · 27th October 2006, 09:51 PM

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** · 27th October 2006, 10:04 PM

Absulotly sensational:eek:

**Skew ChiDAMN!!** · 28th October 2006, 01:22 AM

Words fail me...

**Flowboy** · 28th October 2006, 05:40 AM

Sensational Mr Fingers, Sen-sational

Regards

Rob ( 8 fingers and two thumbs)

**KevM** · 28th October 2006, 08:01 AM

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** · 28th October 2006, 08:32 AM

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** · 28th October 2006, 09:14 AM

Fabulous work, Mr Fingers

Cheers

Paul

**DPB** · 28th October 2006, 09:23 AM

W

W!

**AlexS** · 28th October 2006, 09:33 AM

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

Originally Posted by nine fingers

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** · 28th October 2006, 10:19 AM

Amazing work, thanks for posting the photos!

Cheers,

**Gumby** · 28th October 2006, 10:22 AM

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

You should be rightly pround of that work NF.

**Waldo** · 28th October 2006, 10:31 AM

Wow!

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