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...