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9th July 2008, 04:57 PM #1Senior Member
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Wanted 2007 Magazine on Wood gear clock
The wooden geared clock in Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts magazine Spring 2007 issue 26 facinates me and I wondered if anyone would like to sell me the magazine? I found the plans but I would love to know how it goes together.
Mike
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9th July 2008, 06:22 PM #3Senior Member
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Thank you Mike.
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13th July 2008, 03:11 AM #4
Several folks asked me for it. Just checking to see if you all recieved them.
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1st October 2008, 10:54 AM #5
Thank you
Hi Mike in Nanaimo
Thanks for sending me the wooden gear clock info. Maybe I can actually make this thing! It really is a beautiful clock. Once I lay my hands on the Baltic birch plywood or something similar, it'll be full steam ahead (I hope).
I had a look at your website, must be fun making all those great things.
Thanks again, once I get started, I'll call my project Mike!
Yeebla
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1st October 2008, 05:59 PM #6
Here's the site I mentioned here before.... all sorts of wood gear clocks
Several free plans to download and construction information!
http://www.woodenclocks.co.uk/
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3rd October 2008, 04:19 PM #7
Hi Juvy
Thanks for your offer and the info about that clock site. I had already downloaded the plans for those clocks. I was actually put off by how complicated they were. But I can see that is because the plans have been well done, very thorough drawings. I need my hand to be held though. For a first clock project, I need step by step instructions. I have studied the Spring 2007 clock and I think I can do it.
I just wish all these wooden gear clocks were smaller though. Juvy, you seem to have collected an assortment of clock info, have you made a wooden gear clock?
Yeebla
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3rd October 2008, 08:03 PM #8
No Yeebla, I have never attempted to make a wooden gear clock. I just collect a lot of stuff......
There is a reason I didn't start one tho.... I had thought about it, but dropped the idea once I looked into it.
Seems that all the plans call for the very best ply wood you can get.... which over here is hard to find and expensive. Making them with regular timber is discouraged because these gears have to stay precisly the way they are cut... if anything changes due to humidity or movement in the wood the clocks won't work anymore. Right there I lost a lot of interest because I had pictured one made from Australian woods.
Since then I've seen how badly thin redgum can twist and turn.... so that's definately out.
Think I'll stick with musicboxes and toys ! lol
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9th October 2008, 10:42 AM #9GOLD MEMBER
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I saw a plan once from someone in Aus that made his own plywood using veneers. I am guessing that would be expensive compared to buying ply, but think of the possibilities in terms of species availability.
PeterThe other day I described to my daughter how to find something in the garage by saying "It's right near my big saw". A few minutes later she came back to ask: "Do you mean the black one, the green one, or the blue one?".
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9th October 2008, 04:13 PM #10
Yeebla, Come for a drive down to Geelong on the 1st or 2nd of November
to the Barwon Valley Woodwrights expo ,at the State Goverement Offices on the corner of Little Malop and Fenwick Streets.
The clock I made just on three years ago,still ticking away,will be on show.
The gears(wheels)are all out of solid timber,not laminated or segemented of a local timber from the Otways.
I'll be there both days ,ask one of our members ,you will soon find me.
only to happy to take to you,
John.
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9th October 2008, 06:35 PM #11
Hello everybody
Juvy,
I know what you mean about plywood apparently being the holy grail for gears. It still might expand, but at least the same amount in all directions, retaining its circular shape. A place called Marine Timbers in Seaford, Melbourne used to stock birch ply but not any more. It is very disheartening. General plywood merchants don't stock it. One said that hoop ply is our equivalent of birch, but I don't know enough to know whether it is suitable for clock gears.
Peter,
that is an interesting suggestion about making one's own ply, but it is beyond my capabilities.
John,
I'm really glad you wrote. I think I've read all your past clock posts in the last few days. That timber of yours, satinwood, I believe, sounds as though you were lucky to get it. If that is the case, then what timber would you use that is readily available? I'll keep the BVW expo in Geelong in mind. I lived in Torquay for four years in the late 70's and haven't been in Geelong for about 10 years.
Yeebla
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6th March 2009, 07:16 PM #12New Member
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Hello, greetings from Spain. I also was looking for that magazine to be able to mount the clock but she is exhausted and I have not been able to find it. If you can send to me the article I will be been eternally thankful.
My email is [email protected]
Thanks again and i wait the moment to start my new wooden clock.
Juan Carlos González Lora
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6th March 2009, 08:15 PM #13
I'm not sure if this is what you're after......
there is an update ( a correction) to the instructions for the wooden gear clock from the magazine here:
http://www.scrollsawer.com/toc/toc_26.php
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6th March 2009, 10:23 PM #14New Member
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Thanks Keju but i see this page and it´s include the pattern only and i need the instruction to assembly the gears and parts of this clocks and the magazine can´t buy because is exhaust. In first reply of this post Mike was offered to send a copy to him of the article to be able to make the clock and this´s as i want.
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7th March 2009, 09:46 AM #15
Did you say you already cut the clock from the pattern you got from that web page?
There is a note on it saying not to use it as pattern, because you would have to enlarge it and that could cause distortion.
They did include a new, corrected full size pattern with the next issue if I remember right.
Also.... both issues are still available directly from Fox Chapel.
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