While cleaning the wood room, I found these two pieces of pistachio that were cut off a waste piece at the saw mill. I had them tell me they wanted to be clocks so I ordered 2- 4 1/2" clock movements from Klockit, fractal burned the slabs around the perimeter and then rough started the holes with a fly cutter in the drill press. I put 2 coats of epoxy on them and then finished the holes with the fly cutter- taking out the epoxy and leaving a clean hole for the clock. They will wind up as shop clocks somewhere. The back cover on the movement was solid so I cut it out to leave acccess to the battery and the time adjustment wheel so I can change the battery and set the time without pulling the movement out and taking off the cover
Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day
Those look very nice, Jim. I too like the fractals.
Can you explain the reasoning behind cutting the holes in two stages? What would have happened if you had applied the epoxy first, then used the fly cutter?
Gotta admit I love pistachio, but the wood is near impossible to get locally.
Every time I open a bag of pistachios, I sacrifice one and bury it in my back yard, only to dig it up to eat when I empty the bag.
Notice that the back was nearly all "clock"....
The back cover on the movement was solid so I cut it out to leave acccess to the battery and the time adjustment wheel so I can change the battery and set the time without pulling the movement out and taking off the cover
Would love a tad more info on this.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
Thank you all for the nice comments. Hi Steve. I took the clock to the guild meeting tonight and have one of the guys coming over to see the fractal burning. I used to demo it at the guild but they don't let me do it any more because the AAW banned it so the guild board got scared. Hi Ron, the reason I bored the holes in 2 steps was that I use a 3/8" hole for the pilot on the fly cutter. I go in from the top and the bottom to get a clean hole on the bottom. I went in part way on each side and then poured the epoxy which ran into the top groove. After 2 days, I cut in from the top and it cut out the epoxy and the wood. I did not want to do the partial cut from the bottom with the epoxy side down on the drill press. Hi Alex. Do you have pistachio trees in Australia? We have them in California and Arizona and it is the prettiest wood that I use. I added a couple shots of the back cover on the clock. I did not want to have to pull out the movement and remove the cover to change the time each year or for battery replacement so I just cut clearance in the cover. Not a real clean cut out but functional !
Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day
