Thoughts and Stories

So the process of building the clock is continuing. Now that the outside frame is done the work has turned into the slow process of creating the gears and properly isntalling them. As you can see in the picture below:

Each of the guears has to be stacked and glued. Once they’re finished, if you want the clock to last awhile, the directions say to sand and lacquer the edges of the gears. In my case sanding, because I was trying to sand cardboard. only made everything worse so I may hold off on having a long lasting clock and just build the darn thing.

This is the main winder of the clock. You can’t see all the detail in this photo, but it consists of a ratcheting wheel that can only turn clockwise. The weights are attatched to hooks that pull the weight counterclockwise. The idea is you wind the clock by turning the smaller wheel to the right and when the weight pulls down on the strings it enages the main gear turning the wheel left. Cool stuff huh? As for the main body of the clock. The pendulum and main housing have been built, making the only project installation of the gears as seen below.

So as you can see the main pendulum is now finished. Of course, I haven’t just spent all my time doing this, the road to espresso fineness continues. Take a look at some of the espresso art below.

The images are arranged chronologically. I’ll probably youtube some espresso art videos this afternoon. When I do I’ll post the link so you can learn what I’m learning. In the meantime. Keep hopes up and enjoy your projects .