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M2 Wood Wheel Clock

Project by Charles Maxwell posted 345 days ago 606 views 3 times favorited 17 comments Add to Favorites
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Various hardwoods. This clock was an experimental project to understand the clock mechanics and how the various hardwoods work together. Learned a lot and developed many jigs as a result.

-- Max the janitor at www.hardwoodskeletonclocks.com


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Grumpy

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posted 345 days ago

Very nice work Max. Welcome to lumberjocks.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

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Charles Maxwell

44 posts in 345 days


posted 345 days ago

Thanks Grumpy. This site is a treasure trove!

-- Max the janitor at www.hardwoodskeletonclocks.com

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mrtrim

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posted 345 days ago

looks great max ! i think you need some help on your pic uploads though . unfortunately im not much help with that , happy holiday

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Chip

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posted 345 days ago

Beautiful work Max.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

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clieb91

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posted 345 days ago

Max, Welcome to LumberJocks. Both of those clocks are just greta looking.

CtL

-- Chris L. "Don't Dream it, Be it."

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rpmurphy509

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posted 345 days ago

Wow. Great work, great clocks!

-- Still learning everything

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Ageingwood

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posted 345 days ago

Max, Nice work . But I will stick to my whirly gigs . As for office pics, Would you believe that the bunch I used to have work for me fixed this up one day while I was away ! No I didn`t fire any one . Really were a great crew.

-- Ageingwood - artsplae1@msn.com No time , retired

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Damocles

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posted 344 days ago

Nice looking work! Welcome to LJ!

-- Living on the square...

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toyguy

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posted 344 days ago

And a big welcome from me too. Just love your clock. I have seen a few of these creations, looks like a tough project to me…. Great work.

-- Brian's Table Top Toys http://home.mountaincable.net/~bgraham/

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Karson

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posted 334 days ago

Great clock, definetely need a better set of pictures so we can see the great details. The M4 clock shows great so maybe repost these pictures.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

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Richard Williams

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posted 327 days ago

Truly a masterpiece in design and art and a working mechanical time piece. Congratulations on these projects.

Everyone seems to have a quote to there name and the one I like best and tell school kids about is:

“Never put a wishbone where your backbone ought to be”

-- Rich, Nevada,

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rikkor

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posted 327 days ago

This is quite spectacular. Beatuifully executed. (Rich – I like your quote)

-- Maplewood, MN

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Jiri Parkman

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posted 323 days ago

Absolutely amazing.

-- Jiri

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mikeH

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posted 321 days ago

very cool clock. how long did it take to build? did you have plans and how well does it keep time?

-- mjhaines

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Charles Maxwell

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posted 320 days ago

Mike H, Thanks for your kind comments. M2 took 6 months to figure out a jig for every important cut (the gears) and about 1 month to do the cut, build, finish. I hand draw all of my own plans but, I am in the process of learning CAD and writing a book about how to build a similar clock (including the jigs I created). This M2 version runs +/-3 per day. Max

-- Max the janitor at www.hardwoodskeletonclocks.com

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scottb

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posted 315 days ago

Beautiful for an “experimental project” – Yep, you are definitely a lumberjock! ;)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

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mmh

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posted 20 hours ago

I’ve always been intrigued by these wooden mechanisms. It takes a lot of patience and skill to make them. I would have to decaf and meditate before attempting one.

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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