DIY clock you can sell!!! Make a clock from a slice of a log!!Posted by Atkins McKinley on June 18th, 2021 Hey everybody, i'm chad from Chimel Woodworks. Today, i'm going to make this cool little wall clock. I got a new band saw this week and i was really excited because my old band saw could only cut six inches and this new one can cut up to 13 inches, and I happen to have this Brazilian pepper tree log that a friend gave me and It'S been sitting here for months, I haven't done anything with it and the main reason was because it would be a pain to cut so I tried out the new bandsaw. It cuts like a dream which I'll mention that and talked a little bit about it more next week on Wednesday, but it just sliced right through this, and I thought it was such a cool. Looking piece of wood that I wanted to come up with something to do with it and a clock is a great project. That'S fun, it's relatively easy and you can use almost anything to make it so this week. That'S what I'm doing now that I have the x-carve, I'm always kind of looking for ways to let it help me do stuff, and although this project could be done completely by hand, the x-carve was a cool thing to try out to do this and cutting this Unusual shape, what I did was, I took a piece of scrap wood, put the piece on it and traced around it. That way, I have a square board to measure off of, but I can still kind of see how my layout looks so you can see here. These were my test scarves. They were in the vicinity. I wanted to actually moved over the nine a little bit and it worked out really well. So that's what I did here now. The x-carve is a great tool, but it takes a while cutting just these four letters took like 20 or so minutes, which is kind of nice, because then I can do other stuff, while I'm waiting for that to cut so I let it cut, it did its Thing and I was all set once the numbers were cut. I wanted to fill them with epoxy, and so what I did was I took some epoxy. I mixed it up and I actually mix some mica powder that I used when I'm casting pen parts and I mixed some mica powder. I use gold for the letters and it came out looking really good. When I put the gold in there, it looked amazing and it was bright gold once I sanded it, it got a little dull with some black in it. I don't know why that happened, but I also because this book, this slice had so many cracks in it from drying. I decided to mix up this copper, color epoxy and put that in all the cracks. So I just kind of smeared that around into all the cracks and as it turns out, it was kind of a waste of time, because the cracks are so small. You can't even see the lines, it just looks like a little dark line, so it didn't really add any color. Add anything to it. So I probably won't do that in the future. Unless it's a pretty big crack, then it shows up on the back. some wines needed the relief cut out for the clock mechanism. I could have done that on the CNC machine, but it would have taken a long time and it's just as easy to use a Forstner bit and I hollowed it out, and one thing I would recommend is: if you buy these clock mechanisms, make sure you get The right length of the shaft in it that goes through the material I happen to have this pack that someone gave me and it was short ones. So I had to keep drilling down further and further and further to get this thin enough, and it's actually only like a quarter of an inch thick to get the clock mechanism all the way through it ended up working. It kind of looks ugly, but at least it's on the backside. So once all that was done and everything was dry, I sanded this down and I sanded and sanded and sanded. I wish I had an easier way to sand like that, but no, I did hand sand a lot, but I did use the drum sander. It'S a big help takes a lot of time out of it, so I sanded it down. I put a nice Danish oil on it. I wish I had clear, but I only had cherry so I went ahead and used that it actually still looks really cool and then once that stain was on I'm sorry that oil was on and done. I went ahead and put the clock mechanism in it. I would have it running for you. However, I don't have a double a battery here. I thought these were triple-a, so when I get it home I'll, hang it in my office and put a battery in it, but it turned out really cool. It'S a fun project like I said you can do it in just an hour depending on how complicated you want to make it a clock. Is a nice simple project to do if you just have some time want to work with the kids whatever, but don't fool yourself? A nice clock can sell for a hefty price. I'Ve seen blog clocks like this, with a little more detail and a little more time spent on them sell for several hundred dollars. So a project like this can actually be a very fun project that yields you some results so get out there make something. 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