A wall clock is a very practical interior detail. In the kitchen, they give you the opportunity to keep track of time, without distracting from cooking and not turning on the phone (especially since your hands may be in flour, butter or something else while cooking). Located in the room, they allow you to quickly find out the time without getting into your pocket behind your cell phone. Ecostyle lovers can make watches from wood with their own hands.
What is a good wooden watch
Wood is a special material, objects from it have a number of advantages:
- Naturalness.
- Low cost (provided that the product is made by hand, because the processing by the master is often quite expensive, especially if it is an individual order).
- Originality. Many people like to consider interior items made of natural wood, but not everyone decides to keep such things in their home.
Watches made from juniper or other medicinal wood will disinfect the air. To do this, they should not be varnished. The look will be more natural if you carefully walk the skin on the surface.
If you make a watch from a saw cut tree with your own hands, you can leave a layer of bark. This will give the product a more natural look.
How to choose a tree
The first thing to do is decide on the look. Will it be linden, soft enough and easy to process, solid oak or medicinal juniper? You can choose what is easier to get or buy, and then cover with a stain for the desired look.
After choosing a species, find the right material. In this case, there are several possible options:
- To buy a finished saw cut at a sawmill, in souvenir or specialty stores, it is also possible via the Internet.
- Make it yourself if there is a suitable stump or block, a chainsaw and the ability to use it.
- Wait until the annual sanitary saw cuts of the trees are held, and ask the workers to saw off the desired piece. Or take a whole little block from them and continue to act in accordance with paragraph 2.
How to prepare material
Before you make a watch from a tree with your own hands, you should spend time preparing for work. After the material is found, it should be left in a dry place for two weeks, so that it dries. This is not necessary if the saw was bought in a store, but even the tree purchased at the sawmill can be raw. If the material was taken from freshly sawn trees, the moisture level in it is many times higher than permissible. Such a blank, not dried previously, should not be taken into work.
If you neglect the drying of the tree, cracks may form in the finished watch. In the worst case, the cut will split, and all the work done will be spoiled, you will have to start all over again.
Materials and Tools
There is nothing complicated in making a watch from a tree with your own hands in the presence of high-quality raw materials and tools. What you need to cook before you start:
- Dry cut.
- Clock mechanism (you can disassemble old ones or buy cheap ones).
- Paint or a burning machine (if it is not planned to draw the numbers, but to burn them out).
- Scissors.
- Insulating tape or paper tape (masking).
- Thermogun with hot glue.
- Fine sandpaper or sander.
- Hammer and chisel.
You can avoid an unpleasant situation, when in the process of work it suddenly becomes clear that something is missing if you make a list of what you need in advance and check with it.
How to make a wooden clock with your own hands
In order not to complicate your life by sanding a saw cut or preparing a dial after establishing a mechanism, it is important to observe the correct sequence of actions:
- Drill a hole for the arrows in the center of the saw.
- With a chisel and a hammer, make a recess for the mechanism on the reverse side.
- Treat the dial and recess with sandpaper or a grinder.
- Install the mechanism, attach it with electrical tape and fix the box in which it is located using a thermal gun.
- Draw or burn numbers on the dial.
- Set arrows.
- Install the mount on the back so that the watch can be hung on the wall.
Having spent not too much time and effort, you can make a watch out of wood with your own hands. A thing made by hand in a single copy looks much more interesting than a mass-produced product.
Variety of wooden watches
A watch from a saw is one of the easiest options. By analogy with them, it can be made not from a transverse, but from a longitudinal die. The product will turn out to be irregular in shape, so it’s important to select the material so that the longitudinal section is beautifully shaped.
There are many options for making a beautiful watch from wood. Wall-mounted, with their own hands, made for themselves or as a gift, they will delight their owners for a long time.
Possible design options for wooden watches:
- Saw the base of the desired shape from the furniture board.
- Make custom numbers. For example, in the form of coins or wooden balls. You can do without the numbers and their designations
- Take a lot of thin dies or wooden rulers, fasten them so that a volume circle is obtained with a thickness equal to the short side of the die. Get the original dial.
- You can use birch bark stretched in a frame from beautiful branches peeled from the bark as a dial.
Craftsmen can make more complex watches from wood with their own hands.
Drawings of the mechanism can be found on the Internet on specialized resources. In order to create such models, one must have certain experience and skills. The simpler options described above can be made by anyone with such a desire and a little patience.