Tick Tock Dynamite Clock

Cool clock. I guess the only tip I have is to cut the hole for the time piece a little more to match the actual clock. It looks like it isn’t quite right but it’s hard to tell.
Nice job and a great attention getter.

-- LAS, http://www.abettersign.com

may i suggest giving it as a present to someone local.. taking that as part of your carry on or even checked luggage may not get you the result you intended…. i like the creativity of this project.

-- making sawdust....

motthunter, Just sending this clock through the mail could be as big a risk as taking it on an airplane…

-- Hal, Tennessee http://www.first285.com

Yeah I know I messed up a little on the insert for the clock face, I don’t have any forstner bits yet and am a little new to the scroll saw.

The intended recipient lives 5 miles away, I’m sure it’ll be a blast!

-- Half-assed and whole-hearted, Kenny

Thats a cool clock. I’m sure they will like it.

-- Dan I.G.N.

What a nice fun project! Good job!

-- HorizontalMike -- "Woodpeckers understand..."

My son was a very heavy sleeper … Till late in the day … This would have made a very unique alarm clock.
Good Idea and a great job of construction.

-- Grumpy old guy, and lookin' good Doin' it.

I second the alarm clock comment…these are usually pictured with an alarm clock attached, because that would of course allow for easily setting the time, so that’s the only part that I would say doesn’t look too authentic. Perhaps, as well, some brown paper wrap around the dynamite sticks?

Great job all in all, and fun gift idea!

-- - Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. -

Just hope he keeps in the house and it never causes any problems. In 28 years as a cop I’ve seen things like this go bad a few times. And even though anybody looking at it should know it’s not real, I can assure you most will treat it as if it is real until they know for sure. I’d hate to have to pay for that responce.

-- Mark Smith, Tracy, CA., http://www.markscustomwoodcrafts.com

Scary! Lol . Excellent idea.

-- "someone has to be wounded for others to be saved, someone has to sacrifice for others to feel happiness, someone has to die so others could live"

Here’s how I clean up a hole in wood- I cut a large hole in a piece of pine, mount the board to the drill press. I use a sanding drum where you insert a piece of sandpaper. I put the piece to be cleaned up on the DP table and raise it where the sanding drum is slightly down in the hole in the pine. I have a line marked where I sand. When finished, I lower the DP table and I’m done- until the next project.

-- Regret- the feeling you get just after you do something really stupid.

I saw a way to make larger round holes using a router on one of the woodworking TV shows that looked interesting. They got the biggest drill bit they had and made a starter hole. Then they used a dado router bit with a bearing on it and set the dado cutting down to cut half the depth of the hole. Then they put a straight trim bit with a bearing on it in the router, flipped the piece over, and cut the other half of the hole to match the dado. They could keep going back and forth like this to make the hole bigger and bigger but it always stayed round.

Maybe somebody else could help out here because I know I’m missing something in my description. They did it in such a way as they were able to make the hole into the exact size the wanted, and the way I have described it you would be limited to where ever the dado blade cut so I know I’m missing something.

-- Mark Smith, Tracy, CA., http://www.markscustomwoodcrafts.com

I have Always liked these , I have a buddy retiring fromt he FBI Bomb Squad who I plan on making one for. Well done.

-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"

Unique!
Well done!

-- I really dont have time for all this, this nonsense.