Wooden Clock
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Wooden Clock
Always striving to be unique in my creation efforts, it is often advantageous to look at the products of the giants who have paved the way before us. Still on my inspirational journey on wooden clocks, I ran across the National Watch and Clock Museum's web page on "The Beeler Escapements." These are not constructed out of wood, however the science and innovation are similar to those involved in wooden clocks.
Though the site does not give any technical details on the different escapements, they do show a little of the various visual elements each escapement offers. You can Google each escapement...
Every once in a while, I'll see some piece of woodwork that really gets my creative juices flowing. A piece that inspires me to dream about making something similar.
This time, I happened across an article by Wayne Westphale that appeared in Fine Woodworking (Jan/Feb 1986 and Mar/Apr 1986). In it, he details first a bit about the theory behind mechanical clocks, a bit on the math, a bit on how to translate these ideas into the world of wood, and finally, in the second article, how the actual clock is made. Though the article is well written, I did not...