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Pendulum clock Deer

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Craft drawing:

Pendulum clock

Try cutting a watch like this. Craft complex— for masters in sawing. The watch will serve as a convenient thing for you. The result of the work will certainly be of interest to your loved ones and friends.

In the craft you can place mechanical watch, which will serve as a convenient thing for you.

Craft drawing:

Clock "Flower Cathedral"

Try cutting a watch like this. The craft will appeal to everyone and will serve as a convenient thing for you.

To cut the craft perfectly you will need a lot of patience.

The selection of plywood depends on the size of the parts, in in this case you will need a lot of plywood. Before transferring the drawing to plywood, sand with coarse-grain sandpaper and finish with fine-grain sandpaper. It is more convenient to grind with wooden block, wrapped in skin. Sand the prepared plywood along the layers, not across. A well-polished surface should be flat, completely smooth, glossy-matte in the light and silky to the touch. Pay attention to grain placement, knots, dents and other imperfections. Quality and color.

You need to translate the drawing accurately and carefully: secure the drawing using buttons or simply hold it with your left hand. Check if the drawing fits the dimensions. Arrange the individual parts so that you can use the plywood sheet as economically as possible.

When cutting, try to always keep the jigsaw straight and cut exactly along the line you marked. Try to make the slots of the parts with sharp corners, so the craft will look more beautiful. Cut slowly, there is no need to rush here. When all the parts have been cut out, you need to sand the surface again, only with fine-grained sandpaper. If there are burrs or irregularities after cleaning, clean the parts with needle files.

You can place a mechanical watch in the craft, which will serve as a convenient thing for you.

After cleaning, you need to assemble the parts according to the picture. Try to assemble a craft. If the parts do not pass through the right places, file them down. When you assemble the craft, look carefully to see if there are any burrs; if not, then glue the craft together.

The watch must be glued using PVA or titan glue. There is no need to pour a lot of glue; if the glue is visible on the craft, it will not be beautiful. When the craft is glued, you need to varnish the shelf.

Craft drawing:

Pendulum clock

Try cutting a watch like this. The craft is complex - for experts in sawing. The craft will appeal to everyone.

To cut the craft perfectly you will need a lot of patience. The craft will take you a month of work.

The selection of plywood depends on the size of the parts, in this case you will need a lot of plywood. Before transferring the drawing to plywood, sand with coarse-grain sandpaper and finish with fine-grain sandpaper. It is more convenient to sand with a wooden block wrapped in sandpaper. Sand the prepared plywood along the layers, not across. A well-polished surface should be flat, completely smooth, glossy-matte in the light and silky to the touch. Pay attention to grain placement, knots, dents and other imperfections. Quality and color.

You need to translate the drawing accurately and carefully: secure the drawing using buttons or simply hold it with your left hand. Check if the drawing fits the dimensions. Arrange the individual parts so that you can use the plywood sheet as economically as possible.

When cutting, try to always keep the jigsaw straight and cut exactly along the line you marked. Try to make the slots of the parts with sharp corners, so the craft will look more beautiful. Cut slowly, there is no need to rush here. When all the parts have been cut out, you need to sand the surface again, only with fine-grained sandpaper. If there are burrs or irregularities after cleaning, clean the parts with needle files.

You can place a mechanical watch in the craft, which will serve as a convenient thing for you.

After cleaning, you need to assemble the parts according to the picture. Try to assemble a craft. If the parts don't fit into the right places, file them down. When you assemble the craft, look carefully to see if there are any burrs; if not, then glue the craft together.

The watch must be glued using PVA or titan glue. There is no need to pour a lot of glue; if the glue is visible on the craft, it will not be beautiful. When the craft is glued, you need to varnish the shelf.

Craft drawing:

Watch "American Pride"

Try to make a watch like this that everyone will surely like. The craft will decorate an empty wall and serve as a convenient thing for you. Job complex.

We begin work by sanding the plywood.

The selection of plywood depends on the size of the parts, in this case you will need a lot of plywood. Before transferring the drawing onto plywood, sand it with coarse-grain sandpaper and finish with fine-grain sandpaper. It is more convenient to sand with a wooden block wrapped in sandpaper. Sand the prepared plywood along the layers, not across. A well-polished surface should be flat, completely smooth, glossy-matte in the light and silky to the touch. Pay attention to grain placement, knots, dents and other imperfections. Quality and color.

Translation of the drawing onto plywood is carried out using a copy, a ruler and a pencil. Translate slowly. There is no need to rush here. After you have transferred the drawing to plywood, you need to drill holes using hand drill with drill number 3.

You can place a mechanical watch in the craft, which will serve as a convenient thing for you.

When cutting, take your time and watch your posture. Cut with a jigsaw exactly along the line you marked. Avoid bevels and curved lines. Cut carefully.

After you have cut out all the parts, try to assemble the craft. When assembling, refer to the drawing. If some parts are not included in the required parts, file them down. When the craft is assembled without problems, glue it together. The watch must be glued using PVA or titan glue. You don't need to pour a lot of glue.

When the craft is glued, you need to coat the stand with varnish.

Craft drawing:

Making something with your own hands is always nice. And if the thing turns out to be necessary and beautiful, such that it can be given as a gift, then this is absolutely good. You can make a clock from plywood, the drawings for which you can make yourself or find on the Internet. Such watches can be painted, decoupaged, or pasted over. different objects– shells, beads, etc.

The plywood clock is beautiful and necessary thing, it will decorate any home.

In addition, plywood is a very convenient material to work with because it is easy to process, so you can use it to realize any ideas.

Plywood blank

In general, it is not so difficult to transfer a figure onto plywood using a stencil and cut it out with a jigsaw, but you should still familiarize yourself with some of the nuances of the work before taking up the tools.
Prepare thoroughly. To make a clock from plywood, you will need:

The watch dial blank is cut out of plywood using a hand jigsaw.

1. Drawing of the dial.
2. Hand jigsaw (it is advisable to have at least 2 files - a small one and a larger one).
3. Hacksaw (used for rough cutting).
4. File.
5. Rotator or drill.
6. Wire cutters.
7. Pliers.
8. Chisel.
9. Screwdriver.
10. Finished clock mechanism.

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Watch making

When all the tools are ready to go, it's time to print out the drawings and transfer the image onto a sheet of plywood. To make small wall clock, you need a sheet measuring 35 by 35 cm. This will be the diameter of the dial. You can make it larger or smaller if you wish. Here are the drawings for making a simple plywood clock.

Then the clock mechanism is inserted into the center of the workpiece.

Using a jigsaw, cut a circle along the contour of the design on the plywood and sand it with fine sandpaper until the edge becomes smooth and even. Drill a hole in the middle of the circle and sand it with an emery sheet. If you have not yet marked the location of the numbers, then do it with a simple pencil. Each number is 30 degrees apart from the other. Or take exact measurements from the drawing.

Draw a sketch of the future drawing with a simple pencil and color it. Better to use acrylic paints or oil-based (they will take longer to dry - up to a day). If you choose gouache, you will need to additionally coat it with wood varnish. Many people use “yacht” varnish; it is the most reliable. In this case, the product will dry out, as in the case of oil paints, about a day.

If you decide to decorate your watch with different beads and decorative items, then the most best option- is to put them on a glue gun.

Just try to do everything carefully so that the work does not turn out careless.

And in general, the manufacture of any product requires precision, especially when it comes to something like a watch. Take the drawings carefully and slowly, cut them just as carefully and decorate them using imagination and scrupulousness. Only then will your creation not be ashamed to hang on the wall. Good luck to you!

Good day everyone dear friends! In today's article I would like to show you an interesting homemade product to decorate your room. Namely, how to make a “mechanical watch”, a homemade product is essentially very easy to make, and absolutely anyone, even a child, can make it. We will use as the main material cheap plywood, and the mechanism itself can be purchased from our Chinese friends or taken from an old watch that is already tired. Well, let's not waste time and start assembling the homemade product.

For this homemade product we will need:

A sheet of plywood (30x30 cm will be more than enough)
- Clock mechanism with hands
- Dominoes (will serve as the numbers on the clock dial)
- Popsicle sticks
- Battery (for the clock mechanism).

We will also need the following tools:

- Hand jigsaw
- Jigsaw (optional)
- Sandpaper
- Drill with drills
- Hot-melt adhesive
- Ruler
- Compass
- Marker
- Square.

To begin with, let's take a sheet of plywood; a square sheet with dimensions of 30x30 cm will be enough. On the sheet of plywood you took, using a ruler and compass, you should draw a circle with a radius of 10 cm. This circle will be the size of the clock (i.e. 20 cm) , if you have a desire to make the clock larger, then make the circumference larger. After that, inside the circle you just drew, you should draw three more circles according to the dimensions indicated below. That is, with radii of 7 cm, 4 cm, and 3 cm.

Then, to create a simple “pattern” we will need a Ruler and a square or, like the author of the homemade product, a square with a ruler. We draw two lines through the centers of the circle so that they are perpendicular to each other; for a more accurate result, it is better to use a square.

We continue to draw lines on the plywood. Parallel to the just drawn lines at a distance of 1 cm, draw more lines. The end result should look something like the one shown in the photo below. Use a marker to mark the parts that need to be cut out.

After we have completed the above steps, we begin cutting. First, let's cut out the very base of the clock. For this we will use a jigsaw, but if you don’t have one, you can use the simplest manual jigsaw. First, we cut out about 5mm from the edge, and then we carefully trim the edges along the contour more carefully.

Then we need to cut out the “patterns” marked with a marker inside the circle. To do this you will need to take a drill and a hand jigsaw. We just take a drill with a thicker drill bit and drill a through hole. After drilling a through hole, remove the blade from hand jigsaw, and put it back on the jigsaw through the previously made hole so that the blade is inside the plywood. And we actually cut it out. We do this with all four parts.

For aesthetics, the workpiece should be sanded at least sandpaper. For sanding, first use coarser sandpaper, and then finer ones.

In the center of the workpiece we make a through hole for installing the clock mechanism. The diameter of the hole should be slightly larger diameter seats clock hand.

Now let's make the clock hands ourselves. Namely, we will independently produce minute and clockwise. To make the arrows, we need ice cream sticks, and in order to distinguish the arrows, we need sticks from different ice creams. If you do not have the opportunity to find two different ice cream sticks, then you can take two identical ones, but changing one of them. To install our hands on the mechanism, one through mounting hole should be made in them. For the hour hand you need a 5.5 mm drill, and for the minute hand 3.5 mm (no more, no less).

Let's make the dial itself. To do this, let's take wooden blank and turn it over with the clean side up. Now we should glue or draw numbers on the dial. The author of the homemade product decided to make a very unusual dial and used dominoes as numbers. To do this, take a set of dominoes and take out one domino from it with the sum of the dots on them from 1 to 12. We will glue the dominoes to the plywood using hot glue. First we will glue the numbers 12, 3, 6, and 9, and then all the rest.

For the next step, we need the clock mechanism itself, and we will install it. To do this, turn the dial over again and use the same hot glue to glue the mechanism to the dial as shown in the photo below.

Then we should decide where and how the clock will be installed, that is, it will be tabletop or wall-mounted. The author decided to make his clock a wall clock, and therefore made and then glued the following mount (see photo below).

All photos from the article

The topic of this article is wooden wall clocks. We will get acquainted with the history of the creation of all-wood mechanisms in our country and find out who and in what years created the most remarkable designs. In addition, we will get acquainted with the methods of making watches with our own hands - both based on a ready-made quartz watch mechanism, and from scratch, with all the mechanics made from.

Bronnikov watches

Whom did Herzen wake up?

Here are two facts that seem completely unrelated to each other:

• The writer Alexander Herzen, a comrade of the Decembrists and one of the theorists of the Russian revolution, was convicted back in 1834 “for singing libelous songs” and soon after that, in May 1835, he was exiled to the city of Vyatka;
• On March 31, 2001, a wooden watch by the Russian master Bronnikov was sold at the Geneva antique auction. The transaction price was a record for a watch movement - 34,500 Swedish francs. What is unusual about this fact is that the mechanism of the watch (fully working, despite being a century and a half old) was made entirely of wood.

What do these two events have in common?

The very concept of exile during Herzen’s life meant only that the disgraced nobleman was removed from the capital, while maintaining his civil privileges and status. Soon after moving to Vyatka, Alexander Ivanovich organized an exhibition of industrial products there.

Note: the official status of the enterprise organized by the exiled revolutionary was confirmed by the fact that the co-founder of the fair was the Zemskaya Uprava of the city (by today's standards - the municipality).

Herzen invited the most famous artisans of the city to exhibit their goods self-made, in order to stimulate trade between urban industrialists and neighboring cities and regions of the empire. One of those who responded was sixty-year-old wood turner Ivan Tikhonovich Bronnikov; His son, Semyon Ivanovich, helped him in his work.

Past tense, very significant compared to human life, erased many details of events and their sequence. Much of what happened in the 19th century leaves us guessing about its reasons.

Here is a scattering of facts and their retellings from that time related to the history of the wooden clock from Vyatka:

• Before that very exhibition organized by Herzen, father and son Bronnikov specialized in making boxes and caskets. Their business card there were wooden hinges made from birch burl - a special growth on the birch trunk, characterized by exceptional strength, resistance to moisture and shock loads;

It’s curious: a twenty-pound (just under 10 kg) birch burl was then sold for 50 rubles. For comparison, for the same money at an agricultural exhibition you could buy a purebred stud bull or several cows.

• One day Semyon Bronnikov was shown the mechanism of a pocket watch. They say that he was so shocked by its complexity that he immediately wanted to make his own version, but from the material familiar to the master - wood;
• Over the next few months, the master, whose products were in considerable demand, practically abandoned the work that brought him income and spent all his free time turning gears. Needless to say, the family was... let's say, not very happy with this development of events;
• His manic passion for watch mechanics gave a logical result: Bronnikov Sr. was committed to a psychiatric hospital by his relatives. Of course, for his own good;
• A year later, after leaving the hospital, he secretly continued to work on the clock and after some time showed the public a working copy. The watch case had a diameter of three centimeters and did not contain metal parts.

The selection of plywood depends on the size of the parts, in this case you will need a lot of plywood. Before transferring the drawing onto plywood, sand it with coarse-grain sandpaper and finish with fine-grain sandpaper. DOWNLOAD DRAWING. Clock with a pendulum.

First of all, you need to prepare your table on which you will work. There should be no unnecessary things on it and every tool should be at hand. Not everyone has their own desktop and has probably already thought about creating one. Making a table is not difficult, but choosing a place for it in the house is difficult. Ideal option- this is an insulated balcony on which you can do crafts at any time. I have already written about preparing the table in a separate article and tried to describe in as much detail as possible the entire process of creating it. If you don't know how to prepare your workplace, then read the following Article. After you have completed the process of creating a table, try to start choosing your future craft.

The main material is plywood. ? Well, of course, this is mainly due to low-quality plywood. If this is not the first time you have picked up a jigsaw, then you can select plywood from the remnants of a previous craft. If you are new to sawing and you don’t have plywood, then buy it at a hardware store. Choosing material for sawing is always difficult. You should always choose plywood carefully, often look at the defects of the wood (knots, cracks) and draw conclusions. For example, you bought plywood, cleaned it, translated the drawing and suddenly it began to delaminate. Of course, this has happened to almost everyone and it’s oh, how unpleasant. So it is better to pay attention when choosing and choose good plywood. I wrote a special Article in which all the principles of choosing plywood are described step by step.

We clean our plywood with sandpaper. As you already know, “Medium-grained” and “Fine-grained” sandpaper is used for cleaning plywood during cutting. IN construction stores You've probably seen sandpaper (or sandpaper), and that's what we'll need. In your work you will need “Coarse-grained”, “Medium-grained” and “Fine-grained” sandpaper. Each of them has its own property, but a completely different coating, by which it is classified. “Coarse-grained” sandpaper is used for processing rough plywood, i.e. which has many defects, chips, and cracks.

“Medium-grained” sandpaper is used for processing plywood after “Coarse” sandpaper and has a slight coating. “Fine-grained” or otherwise “Nulevka”. This sandpaper serves as the final process for stripping plywood. It gives the plywood smoothness, and therefore the plywood will be pleasant to the touch. Sand the prepared plywood in stages, starting with medium-grain sandpaper and ending with fine sandpaper. How best to prepare plywood for sawing and which sandpaper is best to choose Read here. After stripping, check the plywood for burrs and small irregularities. If there are no visible defects, then you can proceed to the process of translating the drawing.

For me, drawing translation has always been the main process in my work. I will tell you a couple of rules, as well as tips for high-quality translation of a drawing. Many people transfer the drawing onto plywood not only using a pencil and copying, but also using “Black Tape”, glue the drawing to the plywood, then wash off the drawing with water and the markings of the drawing remain on the plywood. In general, there are many ways, but I will tell you about the most common method. To transfer the drawing onto prepared plywood, you must use a copy, a ruler, a sharp pencil and a non-writing pen. Fasten the drawing in plywood using buttons or simply hold it with your left hand. Check if the drawing fits the dimensions. Place the clock drawing so that you can use a sheet of plywood as economically as possible. Translate the drawing using a non-writing pen and ruler. There is no need to rush, because your future craft depends on the drawing.

As you have already noticed, the parts contain parts of the grooves that need to be cut out from the inside. By the way, the diameter of the hole must be at least 1 mm, otherwise you can damage the elements of the drawing, which, alas, are sometimes difficult to restore. To avoid damaging your work table when drilling holes, you must place a board under the workpiece so as not to damage the work table. It is always difficult to drill holes alone, so ask a friend to help you in your task.

There are many rules for cutting, but you need to stick to the most common ones. The first thing you need to do is cut out internal parts, only then according to the outer pattern. There is no need to rush when cutting. The main thing is to always keep the jigsaw straight at a 90-degree angle when cutting. Cut out the parts along the lines you precisely marked. The movements of the jigsaw should always be smooth up and down. Also, do not forget to monitor your posture. Try to avoid bevels and unevenness. If you go off the line while cutting, don't worry. Such bevels and irregularities can be removed using flat files or “coarse-grained” sandpaper.

When sawing, we often get tired. Fingers and eyes, which are always tense, often get tired. When working, of course, everyone gets tired. In order to reduce the load, you need to do a couple of exercises. You can view the exercises here. Do the exercises several times during work.

You should always clean the parts of future crafts carefully. At the very beginning of the work, you already sanded the plywood with sandpaper. Now you have to do a small part of stripping the plywood. Using medium-grain sandpaper, sand the edges of the parts and the back of the plywood. “Fine-grained” sandpaper is considered the final stage of cleaning parts. It is better to clean the front part of the parts with fine sandpaper. When processing plywood, take your time. You can also use a rounded file, which is convenient for cleaning the inside of the holes. Try to ensure that the parts come out without burrs or irregularities.

Assembling the parts of our craft is not so difficult here. In order to correctly assemble the parts, you need to read the following Article, which describes in detail all the details of the assembly. After the parts are assembled into one common craft without any problems, then start gluing them.

The shelf parts must be glued using PVA or titan glue. You don't need to pour a lot of glue. It is better to tie the assembled craft with glue with a strong thread, tighten it and lay it out to dry. The craft glues together in about 10-15 minutes.

To decorate our craft with a pattern (for example, along the edges of the craft), you will need an electric burner. It can be very difficult to burn a pattern beautifully. To burn patterns, you must first draw the pattern with a pencil. You can read how to work with an electric burner and add patterns to a shelf here.

Read how best to varnish a craft. Try to choose a quality varnish. Varnishing is carried out using a special brush “For glue”. Take your time. Try not to leave visible marks or scratches on the craft.