Wooden Clocks

The most beloved clock projects from the pages of Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts. Includes grandfather clocks, pendulum clocks, desk clocks, and more.

Making a piece of wood move is fun, but making it tell time is truly amazing! Inside this book, you’ll find ingenious plans for creating awesome wooden machines that actually move and keep time. These working wooden wonders might just be the most enjoyable projects you ever build in your shop. Wooden gear clocks are not only fascinating to watch, but can be surprisingly accurate timepieces. Just don’t expect atomic precision—after all, they’re modeled on 17th-century technology! But as you build these scroll saw clocks you’ll use all of the basic principles that still govern mechanical clocks today. Six well-illustrated step-by-step scroll saw projects are arranged by skill level from beginner to advanced, and full-sized scroll saw patterns are attached to the book in a handy pouch. With a little perseverance, you’ll soon be ticking along happily with your own wooden clockworks. All you have to do is build them, wind them up, and let them run—no batteries required.

Learn how to construct a variety of traditional, Shaker, and contemporary clocks, with plans, parts lists, and instructions for 37 timepieces, including grandfather clocks, mantel clocks, and desk clocks. Complete Guide to Making Wooden Clocks, 3rd Edition also includes a bonus pattern pack with scroll saw project templates.

Includes the four basic types of clocks---plaque, shelf, wall, and tall case clocks. Plans, drawings, and photos included.

Complete plans and measured drawings to make 23 clock cases with designs ranging from the classic long case to bracket clocks, wall-hung and mantle shelf pieces, and traditional examples such as the Vienna regulator and the balloon and lancet clocks.

Re-create traditional wooden clock cases with authentic constructional plans.

Carpentry.

Cut this book into 160 pieces, glue them together, and have a paper clock operated by weights that keeps perfect time and can be rewound and regulated.

Beautiful wooden designs for creating clocks. Includes more than 250 unique patterns in a variet of themes.