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General Category => General Scroll Saw Talk => Topic started by: malc on November 15, 2012, 04:55:12 am
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Hello all, sorry to have been away so long, lots of other commitments. Some of you may remember my last clock build. I did a thread on Clayton Boyers Number Six Clock. I am now about to start on another of his great clocks, the 'Bird of Paradise'. This clock uses a complicated grasshopper escapement. I will start a thread if anyone is interested.
Malc
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Morning Malc.... Yes....Yes.... Looking forward.... Danny :+}
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Here's a utube clip of the Bird of Paradise and if my one is any near as good as this I will be very pleased. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIjCPYqWiMs
Malc
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I'll be looking forward to it as well. The video clip looks great, but very complicated.
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Let the build begin! Frames cut out of MDF and stained Ivory. If this first attempt is Ok then it will be replaced with Cherry or walnut.
Malc
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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!! Malc is building another clock!!! For those of you who were not around for the last one, watch this thing go from plans to working clock. It is a sight to see. Thanks for sharing the process, Malc. :o
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Hi Malc, never saw your first clock but I'm looking forward to seeing this one. I admire your tenacity and patience in tackling something so complicated. My father's hobby was horology, repairing and making parts for clocks and watches, however, I'm afraid I didn't inherit his patience !!!!. Good luck with it Malc.
Rob Roy.
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can't wait to start seeing it come all together.
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Let the build begin! Frames cut out of MDF and stained Ivory. If this first attempt is Ok then it will be replaced with Cherry or walnut.
Malc
What kind of stain are you using? I thought that Ivory was white or at least a lighter color. The pieces in the photo look more like a walnut stain to me.
Rog
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Let the build begin! Frames cut out of MDF and stained Ivory. If this first attempt is Ok then it will be replaced with Cherry or walnut.
Malc
Sorry I meant ebony!!!!! Getting my notes messed up! Anyhow don't think the MDF will be good enough for anything else but to hang the wheels on to get them meshing correctly so got some cherry 2in turning blanks today and will rip them to 1/2in and glue the up, according to Clayton Boyer the clocks designer that should be strong enough.
Malc
What kind of stain are you using? I thought that Ivory was white or at least a lighter color. The pieces in the photo look more like a walnut stain to me.
Rog
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I enjoyed following your first clock build. I hope to start one of the Bowyer clocks in the spring. Am looking forward to watching this one come together, thanks for sharing your progress.
Barry
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Great wheel cut, all sixty teeth and the centre wheel pinion it runs on both mesh perfectly, got even more wood today for the frame looks like it will be redwood now.
Malc
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that is some nice smooth cutting there.
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Oh boy, I'm looking forward to the build! I'll probably live vicariously through you.
Bill
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Today's job done. Click gear and ratchet completed and fixed to great wheel.
Malc
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That cutting is just so accurate.
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Raining hard, miserable day so down the workshop and cut out the frame in redwood, looks quite good, still in the rough lots of sanding to do before it is good enough to show. If you include the spacers it comes to 22 pieces cut out. May be able to cut another wheel tomorrow unless 'er indoors has other ideas!
Malc
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Disaster! Dropped one of my frames on the floor and watched it break into three bits! This has proved that solid redwood is not strong enough for this purpose so it's back to good old Baltic birch. Still better now rather than when it was all finished and sanded. :'(
Malc
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ouch - but as you say better now than later when it all done.
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Hope to carry on with the new frame today seeing as my workshop has come up to above zero!! Will be posting some pictures in a day or so.
Malc
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well that's all the cogs and other bits cut. Now all I have to do is finish the frame and get them all to work together!!!
Malc
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WOW!!! I don't know how you manage to cut those so accurately, I couldn't spot 1 mistake on those teeth.
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WOW!!! I don't know how you manage to cut those so accurately, I couldn't spot 1 mistake on those teeth.
No one mistake would be too many...it just wouldn't work simple as that. All wheels except escape wheel cut on scroll saw slower than a band saw but far more accurate. Also to cut on a band saw for half an hour without a break is asking for badly cut fingers!!
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I know how to apply a band-aid but am no surgeon, you my friend are a surgeon. Nice work.