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How to make a gear wall clock.
This would give you a clock that you only had to rewind once a week or so.
This article is about making a wooden gear clock from a plan purchased online.
How to build a clock with visual aids and a video.
Enabling you to make a beautiful wooden clock that will be both an heirloom and a conversation piece.
This causes the clock gears to stop and start rotating every second.
How we test gear.
The tools required to make a wooden gear clock.
A hand made wooden clock is one of those projects i like to marvel at.
Building a clock from scratch is complicated and mesmerizing.
Thankfully my buddy rick urschel is not nearly as impatient as i am.
How wooden gear clocks work.
The most popular plans are clayton boyer clocks.
As the pendulum swings back and forth it rotates the escape lever in and out of the escape gear.
I m not sure i have enough patience to cut out one wooden gear let alone the multitude required to construct a fully functional clock.
That is what we are going to do.
It will make one rotation every 60 seconds.
The gear ratio between the weight drum and the escapement gear might be something like 500 1 as shown in the diagram below.