He also shows how to choose and prepare the wood.
Paul selles wall clock.
Making the wall clock.
To make the clock you will need a few hand tools a workbench of some kind and a vise to hold your material as you work.
The wall clock is made from pine and i chose this because it enables you to locate your wood easily from almost any store or lumberyard and it works especially well with hand tools.
This was once performed traditionally using a special plane called a panel raising plane.
These rails receive the raised panel and line up with the grooves in the side pieces.
The next part in the process is to form the grooves in the two cross rails.
Making the wall clock 5 by paul sellers 16 december 2012 with the main body of the clock superstructure completed we can now form the raised panel and fit it to the grooves.
By paul sellers 2 december 2012.