Hand Made Wooden Grandfather Clock

I saw one of these in a wood art shop. It was too expensive to buy so I just had to make my own. This is my second effort...the first one took over a year to finish, this one about 9 months. Considering time and materials it would probably have been cheaper to pay the $8,000 for the one I saw in the shop. Thanks to Clayton Boyer, Nick Andronis, Gary Mahony, JR Beall and everyone on JR's Wooden works clock forum for their inspiration and info.

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Entertainment

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• Grandfather
• Clock
• Wooden
• Gear
• Wood
• clockworks
• scrollsaw
• gresham

[turdsarewet]

good job man how or where did you get your gears?

[ggreshamyak]

@turdsarewet I designed the gears with CAD and then cut them with a scroll saw.

[HossHossHossHossHoss]

Very nice job, couple questions, how much weight do you have in the weight bobs or what ever they are called, And what did you use for bushings and axles for the gears. I can't find any pipe that fits inside other pipe to make my own. Any ideas will greatly help out,

[ggreshamyak]

Its been a while since I made this one but I think the weight was about 25 pounds. with the pully system it works out to about 5 pounds driving the gear train. This one runs for 8 days. As for the bushings and arbors, I used RC car wheel bearings for the bushings and solid brass rod for the arbors.

[thepresident1981]

wow im doing the same thing Wheels: 64 90 40 48 50 (x5) pinnions 12 8 16 10 5(x5) i was planing on mine run for about 333days :D

[insolvancy]

Do you have any videos of the construction?

[odmcarp]

good job !!!

[bestamerica]

wow very pretty wooden clock,,,

but be carefully that too many termites will love it to eat this wooden clock

[NOMADdaf]

are the gears and all wood???

[Rumbata6]

Cool!How Can i Build my own? Please Tell Me!!!

[Elainiwen]

Very unique skeleton clock... it must also be very calming that it's around. And it would be the one of the centerpieces as well. :)