Show and Tell - let us know what you're doing!

[Kitwn]

That's really spooky Neale. Guess what clock I made first? Not that surprising perhaps, many people have commented on how mesmerizing the Sextus design is. Mine is just made from the bog standard ply from the local hardware, It's a 1900Km round trip from here to the nearest shop with anything better.
I've put a couple of videos below. Please feel free to laugh at the machine that made it. There isn't much of that little beastie left in the current version.

I'm also using the rather splendid 'Gearotic' software from Art Fennerty, original creator of MACH3, to design gear trains for my own electric clocks. Weight driven wooden clocks are an interesting project but have the problems of having to be wound every day, are innacurate and the weight (3Kg-ish) tends to distort the frame and stop them working after a while. They're also expensive to send through the post if you don't want the recipient to have to source their own lead.
The third link is to a video I've linked before. This is the prototype of an electric clock which can be locked to either a quartz crystal or, as shown in this video, a GPS receiver which means it runs with absolute accuracy. My current problem is how to make wheels (heaven forbid you use the word 'gears' in the presence of an horologist!) out of hardwood rather than mere ply. Whe the grain is tangential to the wheel the teeth tend to chip while being cut so I've bought a bandsaw and made a jig for cutting pieces for 12-piece segmented blanks that have radial grain all round.

I realise there are specialist showcases elsewhere on the forum, but perhaps this is a good place to show off some of the smaller, less flashy stuff as Neale suggests and perhaps also take a relaxed attitude to veering off topic and chatting a bit. The MYCNCUK alternative to meeting down the pub after a serious discussion about choosing the right drivers for a new machine. Maybe Dean can bring the Guiness?








Kit