tlempicke
02-18-2014, 06:07 PM
A while back Vectric posted a project called Honey I shrunk the clock. I thought it was a really cool looking clock but I wanted it with a mechanical movement in it so that I could call it a "real" miniature Grandfather clock.
Here is my version of it. It is made of red oak, mostly because that is what I could buy where we live. I made it on a tabletop unit which required re-drawing parts of it and modifying every file so that I could cut it horizontally rather than vertically.
Part of what I was doing was to learn a bit more about the software and in addition the designer taught me a couple of nice little tricks to getting what I want out of the Shopbot. The movement is available from Klockit and fits right in the clock, although you do have to modify a couple of the plates so that they have holes in them. The dial is from an 1850 German clock that I bought off of E Bay.
Here is my version of it. It is made of red oak, mostly because that is what I could buy where we live. I made it on a tabletop unit which required re-drawing parts of it and modifying every file so that I could cut it horizontally rather than vertically.
Part of what I was doing was to learn a bit more about the software and in addition the designer taught me a couple of nice little tricks to getting what I want out of the Shopbot. The movement is available from Klockit and fits right in the clock, although you do have to modify a couple of the plates so that they have holes in them. The dial is from an 1850 German clock that I bought off of E Bay.