How to Make a Wooden Clock

Everyone in this world has to use time at one point or another. Time is used for everyday life and everyday situations. People all over the world have to use time to plan their everyday activities whether it be for waking up in the mornings to go to work or going to that important meeting that you have scheduled with your co-workers. Almost every family in the world has some type of time piece in their household. Some people have watches as their only means of telling what hour of the day it is. Some people go to the extent of having a beautiful grandfather clock sitting in the home sometimes placed in their family room. These clocks are so beautiful and one of the more popular forms of clocks known to date.

If you ever feel like just sitting down and being creative and start to have thoughts about what you can do for all that extra spare time you have after you get off of work or just need something to do when you're bored, then think about making your own little wood clock. It doesn't have to be anything real fancy but just something small if you wish and it would be something that you created all by yourself and didn't have to go out and by. Just think of what it would be like to stare up at the wall and see a clock hanging there that you built with your own time and hands. It would be something beautiful that you yourself and others that come to visit you can look at. Just imagine having family members or friends over and having them stare at your own hand built time piece and saying " where did you buy that beautiful clock at ?" You could then say " I built that myself " and then you see them smile and tell you that you didn't make it. How awesome of a feeling would that be ? Honestly !

Well, here we go. There materials that you will be needing are very accessible and fairly cheap in price.

Materials that you will be needing are as is:

You will be needing one clock frame which can be picked up at almost any crafts and hobby shop or even at Wal_Mart. Wal-Mart is where I got my clock frame with the center hole for the time piece already shaped out with the hole already pre-made in the center for the actual time piece of the clock. My choice of a design was a clover looking shape that was just a piece of wood cut out in the shape of a clover without any paint or anything. If you buy a frame, be sure that it is already sanded down unless you want to sand it yourself, otherwise this project will take a bit longer. They should come pre-sanded on the spot though. The frame that I bought was purchased at Wal-Mart and was only $2.50 for the actual frame. It was very cheap considering the project and the actual work that was already done on it from the factory.

You will need to purchase the actual time piece for the frame which is the actual hands of the clock. This can be purchased below $ 6 if you get the cheapest one available. You may even find one that is actually cheaper in your hometown. Just do some investigating if you wish and don't have the money or means to spend $ 6. Your actual timepiece may require you to buy at least one AA battery to make your time piece run. You don't necessarily need to purchase a top named battery. You can just buy a knock off brand battery to operate your clock if you wish. Your clock just won't have the run time of a more expensive top brand named battery. So if you want your clock to last quite a bit longer, go for the name brand brand battery.

You will need the numbers to circle your clock. You can pick these up fairly cheaply. You can also buy the numerical lines instead of numbers if you wish to have your clock look more sophisticated and old fashioned rather than a modern day times clock.

Likely Page BreakYou will need some glue. The glue type matters because you're going to need some glue that is going to be strong enough to support the digits for the clock and for holding the actual time piece of the clock to inside on the back of the frame you're going to be using.

You will need a thin piece of wire and a nail to hang your beautiful creation up with or if you like, you can create something on the back of the clock to display it on your counter top. You could possibly use a cheap dowel rod also purchased from your local crafts and hobby shop or Wal-Mart to glue on the back to stabilize the clock to sit upright on your surface. You will have to make sure that it is stabilized on both sides though to ensure that it will not fall in the occasion of a vibration of some sort happening.