Tricky Hourglass

That is the most unusual hourglass i’ve ever seen. Very interesting and well done!

-- Paul - The sweetest sound in my shop, next to Mozart, is what a hand plane makes slicing a ribbon.

Very clever. Took a minute to figure out that you broke the disc then glued it back together, but I still haven’t figured out how you bored the center hole with lips at both ends.

-- Tom

Tomw, my guess is he used a router bit that fit inside the hole he bored, and then simply routed the inside circumference of the hole to make the lip on both sides. just need a bearing that allows the bit to have that 1/8 inch depth of cut.

Fun project Yuri. I think you were very clever to break the disk rather than making it oval by sawing it. You could of course also have jointed two pieces with a paper joint before drilling the hole to accomplish the same thing, but I think the broken edges glue joint will be more invisible the way you did it.

-- Mike, American in Norway

That’s a very unusual design. It looks good.

helluvawreck aka Charles
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-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

Thank you all. Breaking disk and gluing back leaves no mark at all, almost impossible to find the joint. 99% of the time wood breaks by the grain line.

-- Live to Learn

Wonderflly creative use of small peices.

-- Jeff, Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. - Malcolm Forbes