{"id":77,"date":"2013-12-04T22:25:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T21:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oneclick.henningandersen.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2013-12-04T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T21:25:12","slug":"wooden-clock-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henningandersen.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Wooden clock – part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why a wooden clock?<\/h3>\n

Well, that’s quite easy to answer: I was just curious to see if I was able to do it! At some point I stumbled across Brian Law’s<\/a> homepage with drawings of wooden clocks and I couldn’t resist. So I decided to try to build clock number one from his homepage.<\/p>\n

I was well aware that I might be forced to change the design as I went along but I was convinced that I would learn a lot in the process – and I did.<\/p>\n

Gears<\/h3>\n

After having downloaded the drawings from Brian Laws homepage and printed them as A3, I decided to start by making some of the gears – as a proof of concept. After searching the Internet for ideas I decided to use my scroll saw to make the gears (I found a lot of other methods out there: band saw, table saw, router and even laser!). As seen in the photos I didn’t shape the tip of the teeth in the first place and concentrated on making the sides nice and even<\/p>\n

\"Minolta<\/a>\"Minolta<\/a>\"Minolta<\/a><\/p>\n

After some experiments I found an easy way to make sure that the gears were a nice circle: I drilled a 1.5 mm hole in the center of the gear and attached it to the scroll saw as shown in the photo. Then I turned the gear sawing off the tip of the teeth one at the time thereby making my hole the center of the gear. This method worked nicely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why a wooden clock? Well, that’s quite easy to answer: I was just curious to see if I was able to do it! At some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[18,24,27],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clocks","category-furniture","tag-gear","tag-plywood","tag-scroll-saw","wpcat-3-id","wpcat-4-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henningandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henningandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henningandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henningandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henningandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.henningandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/www.henningandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henningandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henningandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henningandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}