UNBELIEVABLE - Wooden Gear Clock - Hand Built - Running for 11 Years
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- My first "self-designed and built" wooden gear clock has been running for 11 years! Unbelievable.
Buy clock plans here:
www.lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/... - Навчання та стиль
I can only admire your ingenuity which implies a deep comprehension of the functions of an escapement. This allows you to implement these functions in different ways but allways with the same elementary functions : stop, delay, let-go, timed intervals. I am very impressed ! And also forces mastering to allow minimum energy to be spent so the device can function a long time, not only before re-winding, but also before it be worn-out...
I know what I speak of, because I have built myself some original clocks, for instance one in which the impulse is delivered only when the balancing amplitude is too low (just mechanical, nothing electric). But I never built "finished" clocks, just feasibility mecanisms, functionning but with no esthetic research...
Congratulations
Amazing lifetime of work you have there. You are an inspiration. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the reply. Great design.
They're all absolutely lovely, thank you for sharing. :)
absolutely beautiful. this is the type of creative motivation I look for my future projects. Cheers.
brian diaz - thanks mate. Appreciate the comment.
Adrian, a wonderful video for sure, and I am a clockmaker myself building many of the same designs. The music is a stroll down memory lane, yet sad at the same time, harkening to days gone by and a hobby lost. Your work is outstanding, and I'm sorry you no longer have that fire, that desire to build more of these wonderful machines. Thanks for the stroll down the past. I wish you hadn't left....
CNC Woodworx ROC - thanks mate. I made a lot of clocks so it was time to amuse myself with other challenges.
Very compact weight driven clock. Love it.
Excellent work, thank you for sharing, very inspiring thank you 😎👍
Great work a true craftsman
I remember watching the original build video and the clock is still every bit as impressive now as it was the. Thanks for sharing and the wonderful stroll down memory lane. Thoroughly enjoyable!
Fantastic 👏 👏 i absolutely love it
good work
Looks amazing!!!, I've also tried to make wooden gear clock, everything was working fine except the escape wheel mechanism because I was not able to manufacture it with proper angles.
Impressive!
Very nice Adrian. My Simplicity clock is still running great after almost ten years now. I need to start on another one now!
Congratulations to you.
Shows both the quality of your build and the design. Very satisfying.
A great satisfaction is lying on this video beautiful
I liked it and I love it 👍👌👏👏
Great work and craftsmanship!!! Did you build this clock based on the Clayton Boyer "Inclination" clock plans?
wow iam so jealous of your skill. Those clocks are amazing. Ive got all the tools but no idea how to use them. Massive respect to your talent
Thanks mate. Doesn’t happen overnight. Took me a lot of failures and practice to get to the point where I could design and build my own clocks that actually ran. 🤗
@@ShedBuiltStuffI've introduced your channel to my father in law he is amazed too
Amazing! Miners's clock!
Carts and shovels included?
A mystery yet to be solved: Where did this man got all this creativity? Fro Brazil 🇧🇷.
Ari DeMedina - thanks mate.
Wish I had more time to work on stuff in my workshop. I generally end up on larger more construction type projects (flooring, baseboard/moldings, etc), but I love to tinker and started a Brian's Clock #1 6 years ago. I got all the way up to attaching the pendulum, got busy with something else and it got shuffled around my shop for a couple years, some of the gears went missing and now it's just in sad disarray.
I'd start selling some of those off. I'm sure it'd be hard to part with any of them after putting so much time in to them
That is fantastic work you've done! Always want to make my own wooden clock, but don't know where to begin. 😥
I was a complete novice when I attempted my first clock. It seems daunting but it’s really only a series of small steps that are all doable.
See the link in the vid description where you can buy clock plans. In my opinion the easiest one to start with is the “simplicity” clock.
Way cool ... but good lord man, that's a lot of clocks for one house! LOL Great craftsmanship!
Garth Howe - yes. I have a very understanding wife !
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Great work. I’ve been a big fan of Clayton Boyer and your work. Are there any that are not working anymore?
Boomfiziks - the only one I kept running is this one. A wooden clock needs to be kept running. If left not running the arbours clag up and you have to disassemble everything and clean, then assemble again.
Each of my clock could be made to run again but I’m happy for them to sit in retirement. It’s too annoying to have more than one ticking!
Very nice design. I build wooden clocks too. But until now I try to build it with wood material and cotton wire only, no metal shaft, bearing and etc. I want to do something which people did in 18 century.
Amazing work .
Can you please advise me how can I start the basics of designing clocks
Hmmm. Clock design isn’t trivial and could not be covered by a simple reply.
I suggest you go to this web site as he not only has clock plans for sale, but lots of useful info for clock builders.
This is how I got started.
www.lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/Claytonsite1.htm
Great work, Adrian. Thank you for the explanation. At 90 beats, your clock stands about 0.5 metres high yes? It's very nice. How long does it take you to cut a gear of some 50-ish teeth?
Thomas Hughes - thanks mate. About 20-30 minutes to cut a 50 t wheel.
@@ShedBuiltStuff that's the hard part for me. It doesn't seem so long. Great idea with the "coal cars" ;a real space-saver! Good on you!
Hello... Would you have the plans to assemble this clock with a stone cart? Carlos Alberto
No I don’t. This was a one-off build
In australia where do you source any ball bearings or brass dowels/pins?
necares - no ball bearings used in my clocks.
Brass rods and tubes can be purchased from Hobby shops.
hi In what software You maked this model... is amazing....
Turbocad. But everything was drawn from basic principles. No “gear generators” were used.
Adrian-been a long time follower of yours and have build many of the same clayton boyer designs as you except one, the MACC. Was wondering if you still have it, what you remember about building it and if that one would still run? How long did it take you to build? This ones on my bucket list and just wanted to know how you felt about building it?
CNC Woodworx ROC - sorry. Didn’t make this.
@@ShedBuiltStuff you didn't make the mid evil astronomical calendar and clock, or MACC for short?.
@@ShedBuiltStuff it's the clock at 5 minutes, 29 seconds of your video.
CNC Woodworx ROC - arrrr sorry I was wrr... I was wrr... just like The Fonze I cant say that word.
But to answer you question - it never really ran well. I made it as the prototype for Clayton to prove his plans. Found a number of issues and the plans were adjusted, as was the clock.
It took a poo-load of time to build. I couldn’t guess how many hours. Soooo many wheels that all have to be perfect as there is a lot of friction built up in all those parts.
Not for the faint hearted but a magnificent machine.
That's awesome! Would you sell the plans for the ore cart clock?
Sorry. No plans available. It’s a one-off
@@ShedBuiltStuff Bummer. I'll have to design my own then. I'm a Mining Engineer, and having a smaller version of that on my desk would be pretty cool.
Thanks for the video and inspiration!
It is surprising that it is running for 11 years. I believe this should be a dead beat escapement, but is actually running as a recoil escapement. I would adjust it correctly as dead beat to improve its performance.
PKamargo - I designed and built this myself.
I’ve got no intention of “adjusting it correctly as dead beat”.
Thanks for watching.
I'm a friend of your channel
Are there plans available for the mining clock?
Sorry - no. It’s a one-off of my design.
Hello, you can share the files of this project, I do not have the money to buy them / Hola, puedes compartir los archivos de este proyecto, es que no tengo el dinero para comprarlos
No.veo en la página de planos los de este reloj me podrías dar la liga, gracias
Sorry. No plans it’s a one-off of my design
I can’t find these plans anywhere and I don’t see them on the link you provided. Do you know where I could find and get them?
This is my own design and is a one-off.
I learned to design my own after building a number of Clayton Boyers clocks from his plans.
@@ShedBuiltStuff I missed that part. Do you have your own set of plans for it already or some you could set up easily that you’d be willing to sell? I know there’s so many other to chose from but I definitely like this on the best. If so please let me know but if not don’t worry about it, it’s no big deal.
Hi Adrian, i love your work. Its awesome !!👍
Its too bad that the other clocks aren´t running.
Now my question : Do you sell or share the plans of your, i would say "Miners Clock" ? Do you have at all plans of your selfbuilt clock ?
It would be great to built it, becaus my granddad was working in a coalmine in germany for much years - it would be a awesome gift for him !!
Greetings from Germany
Jari
NewKidney - thanks mate. But, no. I haven’t got plans for sale. My “plans” are not complete or good enough for anyone else to follow.
Best I can do is point you to Clayton Boyer. There is a link to his plans site in the video description.
Btw mate, do you sell plans for this design at all?
As I said in the vid, it’s a Clayton Boyer design.
See the link in the vid description to purchase plans.
@@ShedBuiltStuff My apologies, I went to the site and couldn’t find anything like this one and you had said at the start (00:00:14) that you designed this one yourself. Wasn’t meaning to waste your time without having first checked, sorry
@@philipbyrnes7501 - my fault entirely. I misunderstood. Sorry
@@ShedBuiltStuff No problem at all Adrian and like many other things, I bought Clayton’s book and should be able to figure out what you’ve done by your very clear walk around and then come up with a variant of my own but always with kudos and written regards to you and your very clever design. Actually I’d like your coal mine design crossed with the power drive of Clayton’s Swingtime clock and or maybe a variant that would use a motor to pull the lead up each day so as to stop the daily interaction of lifting it physically, (friends I may build for are too lazy to lift the weights each day and it would gather dust after a week lol), so I should stop being lazy and use the brains God gave me, the knowledge Clayton gave me and the inspiration that you’ve given me and figure it out myself lol. Again, thanks for the inspiration mate, you’re a very clever and patient man and you should be very proud of the amazing clocks that you’ve made. Thanks again, see ya, Phil, ps, stay safe mate
Any chance you would sell a build file for this one??
Sorry. No chance. There isn’t a “build file” that would be useful to anyone else.
Clayton Boyer takes many many hours perfecting, checking, and checking again to get a plan that actually works so it can be used by other builders.
I used bits of plan and then made it up as I went along.
@@ShedBuiltStuff I am working on a mine theme clock as well. A Headframe with vertical weights that are made to look like a cage being lowered into a mine shaft. Trying to figure out all the gearing now…. Love your clock!
Thanks mate. Wish you all the best of luck with your build
Hi Adrian,i am in Brisbane.I would like to commission someone to build a gadget for me.Do you do that? I could not find the email add on yr channel to send specs for a quote.
MegaFloyd100 - thanks for the compliment but I ONLY do this stuff for fun.
Take it all apart scan the gears and tower sell the plans! Get a partner to make them on a CNC and sell them as a kit one builds
And he's always late for work!
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Obviously, I'm a hobbyist as well or I wouldn't be here leaving a comment. Question, have you ever wondered why you decided to start building clocks? I'm a retired Physicist, I have many hobbies, but have started making clocks, I'm at number 2 and my wife hates it already. She asks, Why Clocks? I can't answer, so I'm asking you, why clocks? Many Thanks, I'm going to steal the coal mine clock, Sorry.
Why? It’s a depression management tool.
When concentrating on the accuracy and minutia of woodwork I’m not thinking of anything else.
Fortunately my wife likes my clocks. But only one - the coal clock is left running. All the others are now left as art work in the house.
@@ShedBuiltStuff Thanks for the quick reply, Ah, I see, yes I get it, I'm retired not because I'm old, but because of chronic illness so I understand the depression management, in fact as I said I also have other hobbies, Electronics and Astronomy, I thought I'd try clocks for a similar reason. I will come up with an original clock similar in nature to your coal clock, but not the same, one masterpiece is enough.
Andrew Sanderson - I wish you all the best for your new adventure. And if you can’t be bothered designing your own you can buy clock plans here:
www.lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/Claytonsite1.htm
This is how I started.
@@ShedBuiltStuff Thanks, I had already visited your site, and have bookmarked it, I will most likely buy one or two! Thanks again