How to Make a Wooden Clock

The instructions for doing this project are as follows below:

First: You will need to lay all of your contents out onto your platform from which you will be working whether it be from your kitchen table or your living room floor.

Second: Start off by taking the center time piece. Un-screw the hands from the part that makes the hands move and slide the part called a spindle that rotates the hands through the backside of the frame into the center whole that comes pre-cut from factory. After you insert the rotating spindle through the backside of the frame, attach the hands back onto the rotating spindle making sure to place the short hand on first, second hand second and your long hand on last. Then screw the the holding piece for the hands back on over the moving hands to ensure that they don't come off when spinning around the clock. This is very important that you screw them on good to ensure that your clock doesn't lose time because they are loosely fitted.

Third: You can then begin placing your numbers around your hands making sure that the number 12 is directly on top and the number 6 is directly on bottom. The numbers have to be exactly spaced apart. You should probably by a pre-made time circle that is already in a circle if you're a novice to creating clocks from scratch. This way you won't have to position the numbers yourself and take a chance on not spacing them accordingly.

You then will need to glue your thin piece of wire to the back top portion of the clock in a triangle shape, using the bottom of the triangle to be attached to the top portion of the clock itself for stability and the top pointy part of the triangle as the part that will hook onto your nail that is going to be in your wall.

Last let your clock dry overnight or however long the directions for your glue say to let it settle and then hang your piece of work up on your wall by the nail that you have put in and gloat over your very own creation.

Option: You can also take a wood burner if you wish which costs anywhere from $9.99 to $25.00 from Wal-Mart and start by burning beautiful creations around your clock. A suggestion if you're going to do this is to first get yourself a good stencil from a local retailer and trace out designs onto your clock either with pen or pencil and then wood burn over the stenciled drawings. I personally used flowers on mine and spaced them out evenly all around the frame of the clock. Be sure to do this first thing though in order to keep from destroying any other portion of the clock. If you do all of the other steps first, there is a great chance that you will indeed have many complications in creating your clock including possibly burning or heating up something that candle heat such as the hands of the clock and completely destroy all of your hard work that you put into it.

Another thing that you can do is if you want to take the time to do some staining of your clock, you can purchase a small can of stain from Wal-Mart or another retailer in your town and do some staining before doing the previous steps listed. This must be the very first thing that you do if you're going to go the distance with your clock unless you're doing the wood burning as well. Then you can do the staining afterward as the second step if you're doing wood burning to create designs into your clock. Staining is a beautiful effect that will certainly set your clock off when it is hung or displayed on your counter-top.

One other thing that you can do with your personalized clock is place pennies around the outside edges of the clock if you have chosen to stain your clock. You can simply glue some pennies in a circular pattern around your clock if you like. Pennies look excellent on a dark wood finish. They blend in so well and give your clock that old fashioned home look. This is perfect if your home is fashioned in antiques. It just sets it off so beautifully.

This is one wonderful project that you can do for yourself even if you're not skilled in woodworking because most everything is done for you out of the factory. All you have to do is just purchase the materials and you're ready to sit down and do some fun and exciting work that is really effortless and cheap.

Just experiment with your clock and see what beautiful and creative ideas you can come up with to make your clock set off from all the other clocks out there.

Add some decorations around your clock on the wall such as flowers if you have a clock that is fashionable and colorful. Add some accent around it and make it really stand out from other stuff in the room.