| This is the clock, works only, and the cardboard model of the case.
The skin of the case will be 1/8" oak, and the rest is made from 3/4" oak.
The skin needs to be steam-bent, so I made a mandril |  /a>">
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| The steamer starts with my big camping pot. The shiny part is
aluminum flashing, stapled into a cylinder, and tapered just a bit so that the
pot's top fits on top. A hole is cut in the side, and a clothes dryer hose
fits in, held in place with a 4" hose clamp.
I used the camping stove for heat, and on the left end is tied a plastic sleeve very loosely wrapped around the oak slab. A plastic bowl catches the drips. | 
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| View from the stove end, you also need potholders, and scrap bits to hold up the bits. See the steam. | .jpg)
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| The inside of the mold is waiting | .jpg)
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| Lots of clamps (that's why I'm doing this in the
Make Santa Fe
wood shop, since we have enough of them there).
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| Where the ends meet, I trim and bevel them until they meet properly. Once this is done, I trace the inside, and use that to cut the front and back. | 
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| I glue 2 strips to the bottom of the skin, so I can usee clamps to pull them together | 
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| Done with the skin, and the front and back. You see I glued a block into the bottom. Turns out this caused a problem in that I discovered that it interferes with the pendulum, so I had to get out my chisels and trim it down quite a bit. | 
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| The dark pieces are 2x0.75" oak, attached with a single bolt from the inside. I applied light and dark stains (separately) |
Finished with 3 layers of tung oil
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Hubert van Hecke Last modified: Sun Jun 14 13:46:20 MDT 2020