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Wall clocks have long been not only a timekeeper, but also a stylish piece of furniture. You can easily make your own clock that will match the spirit of your home and your character. Personally, I prefer eco style and want to make a wooden watch from an almost untreated tree trunk.
The easiest option is to make a clock from sawn wood.

First you need to saw off the cut from the trunk. You can leave the bark, it looks decorative in some cases, and sand it thoroughly.
To make a watch, you will need to buy the simplest watch in a plastic case from the store. All you need from them is a clock mechanism. The watch will need to be carefully disassembled, first removing the batteries from it. Remove the protective glass from the watch, then the cap. which secures the arrows, nut and washer. We take out the mechanism from the clock. We remember the sequence and put all the parts in a safe place.
Now we apply the numbers on the cut dial using a burner. In this case, everything is extremely conditional (only the number “12”).

And drill a hole in the center for the arrows. You can make a cut at the back of the cut for the clock mechanism using a chisel or a router. Now we mount the clock mechanism with hands on the new watch:

You can saw parts of different lengths from a pine block and glue them together, clamping them with clamps. You will get a very creative dial:

In the following version, the dial is made of OSB sheet, and the frame is made of wooden blocks:

If you have jigsaw cutting skills, you can make more complex versions of dials in the form of animal figures:

Such a clock would be especially appropriate in a children's room.
A very simple and original option - a wooden dial with buttons glued to it instead of numbers:

In general, give free rein to your imagination and go for it!

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Any home interior can be incredibly transformed by a brand new wall clock. At the same time, it is not at all necessary to travel all over the city in search of a new masterpiece that will become a wonderful update.

Wall clocks in the interior will look great if you make them yourself! For example, you can decorate an old clock you have. You can also make new ones using various materials, which are also easily accessible.

In addition, they will be an excellent gift, especially for family, friends and friends who are not known for their punctuality.

How to make a wall clock with your own hands

Taking the most ordinary embroidery hoop, you can get quite interesting wall clocks. You will also need decorative buttons for this. The base can be chosen from a fabric that goes well with the texture and color scheme of your interior.

You can also use any buttons (preferably a collection) that are completely idle. They can be of different shapes, colors, sizes.

For a new watch you need to prepare: an old watch or find hands with a mechanism, a hoop, fabric with buttons, braid/ribbon, and if you wish, a thin board/cardboard.

It shouldn’t be a pain to disassemble a clock mechanism/old clock to remake it for a new decor. The arrows should be removed along with the nuts that hold them together. It is important to know in this case in what sequence they are connected. The fabric is attached between the hoops, cut off the unnecessary edges, then sew on the buttons. Place the latter in accordance with the numbers on the dial.

Next, the watch mechanism itself is attached. You need to make a small hole right in the center of the dial, and on the other side you need to attach a mechanism so that the mount for the hands is right in the center of the dial of your watch. To secure the mechanism, cut a circle from a cardboard sheet or wood. Its diameter should be the same as the hoop. The mechanism is glued to it. You can also simply hang it on a ribbon that is attached to the hoop. We recommend making a loop so that you can hang the accessory on the wall. All that remains is to screw the arrows and voila! See options for similar items in our photos of DIY wall clocks.

Option No. 2

A clock can also be made from old unwanted magazines/newspapers.

To do this you need to prepare: 24 pages of equal size; pencil, scissors, transparent adhesive tape, long needle, silk thread intended for embroidery/floss, transparent plastic disks (2 pcs.), a cardboard circle with a hole right in the center, a clock mechanism with arrows.

So, first you need to take a pencil that is wrapped in newspaper. The tubes need to be made accordingly, 24 pieces. Their ends should be secured with adhesive tape, then they naturally will not unwind. Approximately the third part needs to be moved back from the end of the tube, then bent in half here.

You need to insert a silk/floss thread into the needle, then thread it through the same bent tip of the paper tube. Pull the needle through and tie a knot at the end of the thread. Other tubes are sewn in the same way. They should be placed around your watch.

Place a prepared transparent disk on top of the tubes. This must be done so that the hole remains in the center of the circle, which was created thanks to the tubes. Then the mechanism is applied, taking into account that the place where your hands are fastened coincides with the hole in the disk. Then you need to turn the clock over and put in a second disk of the same type. Cardboard is placed on top of it, and the clock mechanism is attached using a nut. At the end, all you have to do is screw on the hour hands and voila!

We invite you to look through photos of ideas on how to decorate a wall clock, as a result of which you will succeed!

Photo of a handmade wall clock in the interior

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The topic of this article is wooden wall clocks. We will get acquainted with the history of the creation of all-wood mechanisms in our country and find out who and in what years created the most remarkable designs. In addition, we will get acquainted with the methods of making watches with our own hands - both based on a ready-made quartz watch mechanism, and from scratch, with all the mechanics made from.

Bronnikov watches

Whom did Herzen wake up?

Here are two facts that seem completely unrelated to each other:

• The writer Alexander Herzen, a comrade of the Decembrists and one of the theorists of the Russian revolution, was convicted back in 1834 “for singing libelous songs” and soon after that, in May 1835, he was exiled to the city of Vyatka;
• On March 31, 2001, a wooden watch by the Russian master Bronnikov was sold at the Geneva antique auction. The transaction price was a record for a watch movement - 34,500 Swedish francs. What is unusual about this fact is that the mechanism of the watch (fully working, despite being a century and a half old) was made entirely of wood.

What do these two events have in common?

The very concept of exile during Herzen’s life meant only that the disgraced nobleman was removed from the capital, while maintaining his civil privileges and status. Soon after moving to Vyatka, Alexander Ivanovich organized an exhibition of industrial products there.

Note: the official status of the enterprise organized by the exiled revolutionary was confirmed by the fact that the co-founder of the fair was the Zemskaya Uprava of the city (by today's standards - the municipality).

Herzen invited the most famous artisans of the city to exhibit their own goods in order to stimulate trade between the city's industrialists and neighboring cities and regions of the empire. One of those who responded was sixty-year-old wood turner Ivan Tikhonovich Bronnikov; His son, Semyon Ivanovich, helped him in his work.

The passage of time, very significant compared to human life, has erased many details of events and their sequence. Much of what happened in the 19th century leaves us guessing about its reasons.

Here is a scattering of facts and their retellings from that time related to the history of the wooden clock from Vyatka:

• Before that very exhibition organized by Herzen, father and son Bronnikov specialized in making boxes and caskets. Their calling card was wooden hinges made from birch burl - a special growth on the birch trunk, characterized by exceptional strength, resistance to moisture and shock loads;

It’s curious: a twenty-pound (just under 10 kg) birch burl was then sold for 50 rubles. For comparison, for the same money at an agricultural exhibition you could buy a purebred stud bull or several cows.

• One day Semyon Bronnikov was shown the mechanism of a pocket watch. They say that he was so shocked by its complexity that he immediately wanted to make his own version, but from the material familiar to the master - wood;
• Over the next few months, the master, whose products were in considerable demand, practically abandoned the work that brought him income and spent all his free time turning gears. Needless to say, the family was... let's say, not very happy with this development of events;
• His manic passion for watch mechanics gave a logical result: Bronnikov Sr. was committed to a psychiatric hospital by his relatives. Of course, for his own good;
• A year later, after leaving the hospital, he secretly continued to work on the clock and after some time showed the public a working copy. The watch case had a diameter of three centimeters and did not contain metal parts.

The idea of ​​creating a watch out of wood hung in my head for a very long time, it was ripening, so to speak.
At that time I was working at a wood processing plant, it would have been a sin not to take advantage of the opportunity to do something for myself.
So, after scouring the web, I found several sites where they offered to buy ready-made drawings/models. On one of the sites, drawings in PDF format were available. It was possible to buy it, but it was interesting to rebuild it yourself and, if necessary, make changes to the drawings.
The website itself: http://www.woodenclocks.co.uk/index.htm

Appearance:

Assembly diagram:

Scheme of operation of the anchor mechanism:

Model built in PowerShape:
breakdown by workpiece:

Assembly:

Naturally, I wrote the entire treatment myself. The processing was written in PowerMILL.
Processing the dial and small details.

Writing processing for gears.

He made watches from walnut and oak. The frame, dial, hands, and some small details are made of walnut. Walnut was used with a thickness of 16mm.
All gears are made of oak. The so-called “deck” blank is a 3mm thick veneer glued together under a press and calibrated to a size of 8mm. Made from re-glued material, because... I thought that the plywood would be more durable and less susceptible to warping.
I bought axles in a store, 6, 8 and 10 mm thick, made of beech. The factory does not have the equipment to produce such small items).

All processing was carried out on a FlexiCAM machine. This is not a small machine; in the photo, a sheet of plywood 2.5 * 1.5 meters is processed. There are other completely different details in the photo, perhaps more about them another time. I also did the processing on the machine myself and did not trust it to the operator. But somehow my hands were full and there was no camera at hand, so there is no photo of the actual processing on the machine ((.

Workpieces after the machine:

Sanded Gears

First build

And this is a small assistant. Grabbed the frame halves and let's run with them. Shouts - I'm a tractor!
After that I had to glue one of the halves. Fortunately, wood is a good material, you can’t even find where it was glued after gluing it.

Dry assembly

Side view.
This version does not yet have a single metal part. When I first read the author’s website, he mentioned that you shouldn’t make axles out of wood, there will be problems with them, but then I somehow missed it.

Tiny seconds hand

All parts were covered with teak oil. Oil does not change the texture of the material, but highlights it and makes the color more saturated. Well, the details become a little matte. I like oil better than varnish.

Blocks for hanging loads.
If the weight is attached directly to the clock, then the winding will last for 12 hours. But this is not enough and the table under the clock interfered with this design. I let the rope go to the ceiling and into a corner where the load wouldn’t bother anyone. I used a chain hoist). As a result, the plant lasts for a couple of days. When the load is near the floor, the little one likes to kick it and tug at it))). I scold you.

The material is striped - I took scraps from blanks at the factory. This type of material - walnut and maple plywood - is called laminate. Butts are made from it, and they turn out very beautiful. But this is kind of exclusive. Usually it is walnut for oiling or beech for painting.

After covering it with oil, it turned out that the watch did not want to run. The sanded ones just walked without problems, and then they started to stop. I had to grind all the axes into the holes and lubricate them with graphite. In general, on the next watch I will install bearings everywhere, well, well... such problems.

The anchor is closer.
While I was adjusting, I got carried away and cut off the excess. I had to glue a little meat onto one of the teeth of the anchor.

Escape wheel
In general, a watch is a thing that requires precision and care in its manufacture. If you haven’t cleaned a tooth somewhere or left a burr, they will stop.

Final assembly
The author had to make changes to the design regarding the plant mechanism. Brian suggested making the plant with a key. Initially, I did just that, but after a month of use I realized that if I don’t change it, the clock will eventually stop working. Imagine, to start it for a day you need to make 24 revolutions of the wheel on which the thread is wound. 24 revolutions are 48 half-turn hand movements.
Taking into account the fact that the watch is hung high, the hand simply gets tired. I changed it so that when you pull the black cord, the watch starts. Fast and easy.

Preparing the location for wall mounting

Wall installation. The wall turned out to be uneven; the upper attachment point had to be moved a few millimeters from the wall, otherwise the pendulum would touch the bottom of the wall.

Installing blocks, passing the cord through the blocks

Preparation for cargo. So far the pipe is dirty and there isn't enough lead inside to finish it. In general, a load of one and a half kilograms is enough to operate the watch. I plan to hang the load on a triple chain hoist so that the plant will last for three days, so the load will need to be about 4 kg. The pipe will need to be shortened a little, but not by much. As a result, the length will be somewhere around 330 mm.

Well, what happened in the end, a few photos.

Many people think that wooden watches are not accurate watches. No, that's not true. This is a mechanism, everything is tied to the movement of the pendulum, and therefore to the force of gravity. I stopped adjusting them when the accuracy became about 30 seconds per day. I did not build a threaded metal rod into the pendulum, and the weight simply moves along the wood with tension. If you integrate a threaded rod, you can adjust it to precision in seconds.
The goal in production was to make a beautiful and useful thing, and not to make a chronometer))).

What was unexpected is that the watch is quite loud. Those. they hang in the kitchen and at night you can hear them in the room)). This is the reason why they hang in the kitchen. Jaune cursed. She didn't like them at all
But I like. And I like the way they tick.
They create comfort with their measured pace.

The video can be viewed on the page in my world.

Wall clocks are a very practical interior detail. In the kitchen, they make it possible to keep track of time without being distracted from cooking or turning on the phone for this (especially since your hands may be covered in flour, oil or something else while cooking). Located in the room, they allow you to quickly find out the time without reaching into your pocket for your mobile phone. Eco-style lovers can make a watch out of wood with their own hands.

What are the benefits of wooden watches?

Wood is a special material, objects made from it have a number of advantages:

1. Naturalness.
2. Low cost(provided that the product is made by hand, because processing by a craftsman is often quite expensive, especially if it is an individual order).
3. Originality. Many people like to look at interior items made of natural wood, but not everyone decides to keep such things in their home.

A watch made from juniper or other healing wood will disinfect the air. To do this, they should not be varnished. The look will be more natural if you carefully rub the sandpaper over the surface.

If you make a clock from a cut tree with your own hands, you can leave a layer of bark. This will give the product a more natural look.

How to choose a tree

The first step is to decide on the type. Will it be linden, soft enough and easy to process, hard oak or healing juniper? You can choose what is easier to get or buy, and then cover it with stain to suit the desired look.

After choosing the type, you should find a suitable material. There are several possible options in this matter:

1. You can purchase ready-made sawn timber at a sawmill, in souvenir or specialized stores, or via the Internet.
2. Make it yourself if you have a suitable stump or log, a chainsaw and the ability to use it.
3. Wait until the annual sanitary inspections are carried out and ask the workers to cut off the required piece. Or take a whole block of wood from them and continue to act in accordance with paragraph 2.

How to prepare material

Before making a wooden clock with your own hands, you should spend time preparing for work. Once the material is found, it should be left in a dry place for two weeks to dry. This is not necessary if the cut was purchased in a store, but even wood purchased at a sawmill can be damp. If the material was taken from freshly cut trees, the moisture level in it is many times higher than permissible. Such a workpiece, not previously dried, should not be used.

If you neglect to dry the wood, cracks may form in the finished watch. In the worst case, the saw will split, and all the work done will be ruined, and you will have to start all over again.

Materials and tools

There is nothing difficult in making a wooden watch with your own hands if you have high-quality raw materials and tools. What you need to prepare before you start:

1. Dry sleep.
2. Watch mechanism (you can disassemble old ones or buy cheap ones).
3. Paint or a burning device (if you plan to burn the numbers rather than paint them).
4. Scissors.
5. Electrical tape or paper
6. Hot glue gun.
7. Fine-grit sandpaper or sander.
8. Hammer and chisel.

You can avoid an unpleasant situation when, during the work process, it suddenly turns out that something is missing, if you make a list of what you need in advance and check it.

How to make a wooden clock with your own hands

In order not to complicate your life by sanding the cut or preparing the dial after installing the mechanism, it is important to follow the correct sequence of actions:

1. Drill a hole for the arrows in the center of the cut.
2. Use a chisel and hammer to make a recess for the mechanism on the reverse side.
3. Sand the dial and recess with sandpaper or a sander.
4. Install the mechanism, attach it with electrical tape and secure the box in which it is located using a heat gun.
5. Draw or burn numbers on the dial.
6. Set arrows.
7. Install the mount on the reverse side so that the clock can be hung on the wall.

Without spending too much time and effort, you can make a clock out of wood with your own hands. An item made by hand in a single copy looks much more interesting than a mass-produced product.

Variety of wooden clocks

A watch made from sawn wood is one of the simplest options. By analogy with them, it can be made not from a transverse, but from a longitudinal die. The product will turn out to be of irregular shape, so it is important to select the material so that the longitudinal section has a beautiful shape.

There are many options on how to make a beautiful wooden clock. Wall-mounted, with your own hands, made for yourself or as a gift, they will delight their owners for a long time.

Possible design options for wooden clocks:

1. Cut out the base of the desired shape from the furniture panel.
2. Make non-standard symbols for numbers. For example, in the form of coins or wooden balls. You can do without numbers and their designations completely
3. Take a lot of thin dies or wooden rulers, fasten them so that you get a volumetric circle with a thickness equal to the short side of the dies. You will get an original dial.
4. You can use birch bark as a dial, stretched in a frame of beautiful branches cleared of bark.

Craftsmen can make more complex watches from wood with their own hands.

Drawings of the mechanism can be found on the Internet on specialized resources. In order to create such models, you must have certain experience and skills. The simpler options described above can be done by anyone with the desire and a little patience.