In today's project we will make watches that can be useful for theatrical performances. The clock has a diameter of 1.5 meters and works using electronic components to set the time between different acts of a production or performance. Clock gears are driven by a pulley system.

Step 1: Model Concept

I was inspired to create this watch by a 3D animated screen saver from 3PlaneSoft.

It took 2 weeks to make the watch. The clock works like this: engine direct current voltage of 12 V is attached to the frame and serves to actuate a set of pulleys connected to the gears and clock hands. The actual gear ratio between the minute and hour hands is 12:1. For this purpose, a complex gear set with two gears with a gear ratio of 3.464:1 is used. The pulley belts are made of 0.6 cm diameter latex tubing with both ends connected through a barbed fitting. The latex tubing can be stretched up to 125% to create enough tension to engage the pulleys, while not creating excessive tension that could cause the fitting to pop out. The control unit is designed so that the time can be set remotely and the clock can run forward and backward.

Clock

Step 2: Fabrication - Frame

The watch frame is made of pine boards with a section of 1 x 4. The main structure is a hexagon with reinforcing pads at the corners and forms fasteners that form a round shape. The sides of the hexagon are cut to a size of 0.75 meters at an angle of 60° at both ends. Two vertical boards 1 x 4 are attached to the 4 corners to create mounting points where cables will be attached to place the clock on the ceiling above the stage. Mounts round shape made of fibreboard 1.2 cm thick. Cylindrical perimeter wall made of chipboard 0.3 cm thick.

Step 3: Fabrication - Dial and Gears

The dial components, hands, Roman numerals and other details are made of 0.64 cm thick fiberboard and cut with a machine saw! The gears are made using a regular wheel, for which I used a protractor and 0.64 cm thick wood fiberboard. The parts prepared for painting took up an entire garage. There are a lot of details! Three gears, Roman numerals, two hands and 12 sparkling details were coated with red Rustoleum primer. The rest of the parts were coated with Rustoleum black primer.

Step 4: Fabrication - Electrical

This project uses the following components:

• Hossen motor 12V DC / 15 rpm
• Potentiometer 100 kOhm - power 1/2 W
• Rocker switch DPDT 15A 125V
• Black plastic housing measuring 8.31 x 5.41 x 3.05 cm
• Round handle Ø 2.4 cm
• Power supply 12V DC / 2A

Thanks to the rocker switch, the engine can change the direction of rotation.

Step 5: Final Stage

Gears, Roman numerals, hands and 12 parts are covered on final stage Rustoleum copper primer. The main dial is painted with green paint with the addition of Brown to give an aged and slightly rusty look to your watch.

Experiment with color and make the clock to your taste. Good luck!

Today we continue a series of master classes on creating original wall clock in the style of steampunk do it yourself.

Hi all! Today we will make a wall clock.

We take it and clean it well.

Now we need a conventional clockwork from chinese clock. It just gets into the disk.

It remains to replace the hands of the clock. We will make them from transparent plastic 1 mm thick, which is used in advertising agencies. The width of the arrows at the base is 4 mm. Having drilled holes, we fasten the arrows to the clock mechanism.

Now it remains to fix the mechanism inside the disk with hot glue. But first we paint the disk with black paint and go over the top with gilding over the entire disk.

Next, we will make hour marks. To do this, take a thick copper wire with a diameter of 4 mm, we clean it, rivet it with a hammer.

And we make 12 p-shaped brackets out of it.

We fix them on the disk.

So that the marks do not fade, fill everything with a semi-matte varnish.

The arrows are painted with gold paint. Next, use a knife to remove the plastic side from the clock mechanism. We take a part from the former, drill a 4 mm hole in the center, paint the part red and glue it to the clockwork. We put arrows. We got these hours.

See my video for a detailed watch making process.

There are handmade items that go beyond handmade, as close as possible to unique works of arts and crafts, created with great skill and imagination. A perfect example of such a small masterpiece - original watch in the style of steampunk and machinery, created by the author of our portal. Every smallest detail in them is worked out so carefully that it can be considered for hours!

On finding inspiration, working with various techniques and materials, the history of the creation of these extraordinary hours, as well as why radio electronics can be useful for a jeweler Yulianna told in an interview with our editors.

Yuliana, I would like to know more about you and your wonderful work. To begin with, tell us a little about yourself, because not every master knows various materials and handmade techniques on such high level. Where did you study? How long have you been doing handmade?

Thanks for the kind words. By first education, I am an engineer - electronics engineer of aircraft. But since I had to earn extra money in the field of design since school, it gradually grew into teaching, and later into my professional training. Now I am writing a diploma at the Stroganov Academy as a graphic artist. My sister and I are also graduating from a jewelry college this year.

I always had to do manual work: absolutely everything was drawn and drawn in the family. Of course, not at a professional level, but it was believed that enhanced practice in drawing partly replaces any school. I still hold this opinion.

What techniques do you prefer and what objects do you usually create?

I really want everything at once!

Often, techniques have to be mastered after a certain idea has settled in the head. A lot depends on the tools. For example, I like stained glass as such, but I'm considering the resources that will need to be obtained immediately and at a time, and I decide: I need a stained glass for several projects, or is it just a small interest.

I have no idea what the technique in which I work is called. I interact with wood, metals, glass, paints in any of their subspecies, textiles, polymer clay, ceramics, etc. The jewelry college helped a lot in this matter, although soldering and working with precious metals still don't like it.

And I create objects, first of all, those that I like. For the soul, always with your little world. And I try to find suitable, loving owners for them.

What was the starting point and source of inspiration for creating the watch?

The spirit of our student laboratories. Actually, the first few IN-14 lamps were brought home from there. In general, the entire territory of the Aviation Institute, especially in autumn, is an interesting sight: endless brick walls, narrow passages littered with abandoned machines, unwashed huge windows of old workshops. And stairs. Wonderful fire escapes hovering in the gray sky above. Indeed, those were wonderful moments!

Of course, this is not the largest institution, but it was easy to get lost there. There was something bewitching in these deserted passages between the buildings.

Do you make preliminary sketches and sketches of the future subject, or is everything born spontaneously in the process of work?

I don't like sketches. When the sketch is done perfectly, it becomes boring to work. But you can only communicate with customers in the language of sketches, so this is part of working with a client. I usually make drawings right away, they are clearer and more familiar to me.

Stages of work on the clock

Was it your first experience of creating watches or such compositions or have you already done something similar?

It's the watch case, no. There was an opportunity to work out some tricks on the jewelry box “Chemical fume hood”. It plays on the image of a Victorian fume hood: small bottles, flasks, a spirit lamp, ceramic tiles. Everything is real, there are no plastic imitations. I even had to break the glass to match the spirit of antiquity!

The size, of course, dictates its own characteristics (the box is only 9 × 9 cm, and 6 cm deep) you can only work with tweezers.

How long did the job take? What turned out to be the most difficult and time-consuming?

Difficult - creating the skeleton of the body, laborious - internal filling. The clock was collected in free time, so there was an opportunity to think it over and count it many times. But in the end, this did not save us from constructive deadlocks. In general, apart from pre-preparation, I assembled and filled the body for about a year ( total time work 2 years). And, of course, there were some moments that had to be redone.

Were there any difficulties with the search for specific materials, any new methods of work and techniques that had to be mastered?

I had to shovel a bunch of photographic material on workshops, factory premises and other things in order to collect an image of a certain plant. For a long time I was looking for druses of rock crystal with small crystals (on the second floor there is a box with crystals).

I had to work a lot with glass, transferred a whole pack of expired novocaine in order to learn how to cut off perfectly even tops from ampoules. A duplicating flask in seconds had to be ordered from a glass blower from Ukraine, and ceramic tiles 3×3 mm from Germany. I dug up a root tree in the vastness of Spain. It was a kind of quest: "Collect the treasure yourself"!

How would you describe the style of your work? Perhaps you started from some historical samples, photographs, works of other authors?

Oh yeah! I love the game Machinarium. I consider Yakub Dvorsky with the entire Amanita studio to be a unique fusion of sincere, highly professional and wise. Watching the release of each of their work!

The style of gas-discharge watches is machine-made, in a good sense of the word.

At the last stages of work, I turned on the music from there, and the sounds in the patina merged with the work, it was even somehow easier to assemble it. Well, little things, of course I love small things, so I often work with miniatures.

Are there any professional advice, which you could give to novice masters who decided to create such large-scale interior compositions?

Perhaps, be patient and treat the work more calmly. She will tell you how and when to finish herself. I'm not an interior designer, but for me it's enough just to attach the whole composition in my mind in the whole volume. Therefore, the most useful advice- imagine yourself inside this object and examine everything there yourself. What do you want to move or add? It's up to the author!

Will the watch stay at your home or will it look for a new owner?

The question has already been raised many, many times! Especially at fairs, when we took watches out into the world. This copy will remain with me. The case uses parts from great-grandfather's watch stock, this piece is special.

Well, for everyone, we repeat again and again that if there is time to wait (the production time is now 9 months) and material resources to pay for 9 months of painstaking assembly, then we can repeat.

Do you plan to create something similar again, if so, what are your creative plans?

Now I'm already working on a new case. True, there will be a different building, more glass, light, space, and a different geometry in general. The customer will see it in September. Well, the rest of the world too! I will not reveal secrets - the layout itself is still at the development stage.

Do you take part in any exhibitions and events?

As an artist, I often have to exhibit. These are both student exhibitions and as part of the international art fund. In one of the last exhibitions, in addition to graphics, even several of my applied gizmos participated, among them the Gaia microfile. It happened completely spontaneously, but it was a success.

I prefer to participate in various fairs when I can talk with visitors, see their reaction, exchange warmth.

For you handmade Is it a creative self-expression, just a hobby or also the main activity?

AT recent times it takes up most of the time. However, I never forget about painting (academic and in graphic format), this is my favorite pastime. But it is very pleasant to bring miniature joys to people, and taking into account the fact that more and more people come to us for them, I want to continue to create in this vein!

2. We pull the clockwork lever first to the position for adjustment (when the hands turn), and then completely pull it out. This will require a little more effort. The lever comes out completely, nothing breaks.

3. The clockwork can now be removed from the case. It remains to figure out how to thread a lace through it. You can do this in two ways:

Drill (or pierce) a hole in the dial;

Insert the crank back into the opening of the clockwork and tie a cord around it with a simple knot.

I chose the second, more humane and more original way. And as a result, I got a double-sided pendant in the steampunk style (on one side of the pendant is a dial, and on the other - an open clockwork).

4. After making the steampunk jewelry in the form of a pendant with our own hands, we are left with a beautiful watch case with a strap. It is the case that is of particular value, and it is its preservation that is especially important for many (because often there are dedicatory engravings on the back of the watch, and appearance the corps reminds us of so many things!). We use the case to make an original steampunk bracelet with our own hands. It's very easy to do this:

We will need a few beads, or any other small items, a piece of plastic, cardboard or cloth, and scissors;

We place small objects in the watch case;

Cut out a circle from plastic, foil or any other background material that matches the color of the overall design bracelet according to the diameter of the back cover;

We place the cut out circle on top of the beads;

Close the back cover of the watch.

DIY steampunk bracelet is ready. Instead of beads, you can use a photo loved one, or shiny confetti. There are a lot of options, and they can be changed every day with a new designer accessory.

If you glue a clock mechanism to a simple jewelry ring with ordinary moment glue, you get a steampunk style ring that will perfectly match your bracelet and pendant.