This was my first natural edge bowl. At least the first one that the bark stayed on. I was lucky enough to find a piece of Ash that was almost flat with the all the bark on it.

This is a hollow form of I made a few years back. It is made of Brazilian Pepper and finished in lacquer. I got the walls as thin as I could without punching them out.

Each year I think I am going to turn some wooden eggs for Easter. And each year I let Easter catch up on me without making any eggs. This year we found out that our granddaughter is allergic to just about everything you might find in Easter candy. Therefore, I now had a little extra motivation to make her Easter special.

Well guess what this year I got them done all 34 of them. Why 34 I ran out of wood and time. I have a wife and 3 kids, all grown, but I can not make eggs for some of them and not the rest. Lucky for me no two eggs are alike. Otherwise how would a chicken know her eggs from the other chicken’s eggs!

The multi colored eggs are made from a product called Colorwood it is a colored plywood product and it is sold in the Woodturners Catalogue.

The other eggs are walnut, birch, and cherry wood. As for a finish I just took them to a buffing wheel and polished them.

This is the clock I made as a gift for my oldest daughter when she graduated college.

I found the inspiration for this clock in a book by E. J. Tyler called Clocks & Watches. The third photo is the scanned image from the book. I liked the simple lines and I especially liked the ribbon shaped crown.

Of course there were no plans available for this clock so I bought a set of plans for a Vienna Wall Regulator just I could get the dimensions right. Then I redrew them to emulate the photo of the original 18th century clock.

The wood is Honduras Mahogany, the movement is German, the dial is hand painted by The Dial House in Georgia and the finish is MinWax Antique Oil.

If you would like a copy of the plans I can send you a free copy by email me at bigbobclark@sbcglobal.net.

I made this banjo clock for my second daughter’s college graduation. It is patterned after Simon Willard clocks dated around 1810. My daughter collected cherubs so I took come liberties with the design. In place of the normal eagle finial I used a cherub finial I got from a clock supplier. I also had a local artist Juanita Niemeyer reverse paint cherubs on the glass. I used recycled mahogany came from an old bookcase. The movement was made by David Lindlow of Lake Ariely, PA. If anyone would like to build on of these email me at bigbobclark@sbcglobal.net and I can put you in touch with all the suppliers as well as the guy I bought the plans from.

I had seen photos of the Seth Thomas #2 Regulator and I wanted to build one but I could not find a set of plans. It took years but I came across a book with plans for this clock. I took the plans and redrew them to full size. Finding the movement and the hardware was another story. This is because the sources listed in the book no longer carried the movements. Finally I stumbled onto a factory in Canada that was willing to sell me the movement and all the hardware.

The movement is German, the wood is quarter-sawn white oak and it took just about every tool in my shop to build it.

One of the joys of becoming a grandfather is that I got to make a baby crib. This is a project that I wanted to make for my children but when you are young there always seems to be other priorities.

The plans I bought from Rockler. The wood is silver maple. For the artwork a dear friend named Patty Johnson hand painted the figures. Notice the Cow that represents my daughter’s college mascot and the Eagle represents my son-in-law in the Air Force. I followed up with three coats of sanding sealer and six coats of lacquer.

Best of all I finished it up in time for the baby shower.

Bob Clark