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I bought plans for the Simplicity clock a while back but have yet to pull out my scroll saw and dig in. It's a lot of fine detail work and slight mistakes can c

• gh02t 10y ago
  What about laser cutting the wood? I'm making a gear clock driven by stepper motors that shows the weather and while I'm handy enough with a scroll saw that I could could probably cut the parts, I went with laser cutting the wood instead. The other nice thing about the laser cutter is that you can engrave the number/lettering directly onto the parts, though the downside is that the edges will be much darker from the laser burns.
  • Animats 10y ago
    People laser-cut those clock designs out of wood at TechShop all the time. It's really easy, and almost a cliche. I tried cutting a clock escapement from a wood clock design out of steel plate with a CNC plasma cutter. But TechShop's old plasma cutter wasn't precise enough for that. I could probably do it with their water jet. But after building too many heavy steampunk objects, and lugging them to conventions, I'm sort of over that.