Wood Gear Clock

So about a year ago, Wiseman and myself purchased some plans for a
completely wooden clock...we divided up the pieces that needed to be
made and then started making them. Wiseman finished his pieces in some
ridiculous time frame )like a week)...and I was taking a little longer...along came
my fantastic daughter and for about 5 months I didn't touch the project. Wiseman
hasn't mentioned the project (did he forget? did he think I would never do my pieces?
all will be revealed soon enough)

A decent chunk of my weekend free time lately (6 months) has been putting the
pieces together...figuring out what the guy that sold us the instructions meant (not
what he wrote...what he meant...which are completely different from one another)...
and the long process of sanding a gear here...tweaking a piece there...until finally...
it will run approximately 18 hours.

I'm giving this one to Wiseman so he can stain and polyeurathane as he
wishes...and I'm going to take the original plan and tweak them a little bit for my
own clock.

All the pieces are different thicknesses of baltic birch (a high grade plywood...it's
got something like double or triple the plys compared to typical plywood) which
reduces warping. The main weight is about 6 pounds. The amount of time the clock will
work is based on how high the main weight starts from the floor...If you have lots of
rope and a high ceiling it could probably go for more than a day. If the clock is hung
around eye level you'll have closer to 18 hours. This one loses a minute or two every
hour...which can be due to room temperature...moisture...etc. But for a wood clock
it's not bad.

if you listen hard enough you can hear the tick tock.

It's been a fun project...sometimes mind boggling...but fun