Any home interior will help to incredibly transform new Wall Clock. At the same time, it is not at all necessary to travel all over the city in search of a new masterpiece that will become a wonderful update.

Wall clocks in the interior will look great if you make them yourself! For example, you can decorate an old clock you have. You can also make new ones using various materials, and also easily accessible.

In addition, they will be an excellent gift, especially for family, friends and friends who are not known for their punctuality.

How to make a wall clock with your own hands

Taking the most ordinary embroidery hoop, you can get quite interesting wall clocks. You will also need decorative buttons for this. The base can be chosen from a fabric that goes well with the texture and color design Your interior.

You can also use any buttons (preferably a collection) that are completely idle. They can be different shapes, color, size.

For a new watch you need to prepare: an old watch or find hands with a mechanism, a hoop, fabric with buttons, braid/ribbon, and if you wish, a thin board/cardboard.

It shouldn’t be a pain to disassemble a clock mechanism/old clock to remake it for a new decor. The arrows should be removed along with the nuts that hold them together. It is important to know in this case in what sequence they are connected. The fabric is attached between the hoops, cut off the unnecessary edges, then sew on the buttons. Place the latter in accordance with the numbers on the dial.

Next, the watch mechanism itself is attached. You need to make a small hole right in the center of the dial, and on the other side you need to attach a mechanism so that the mount for the hands is right in the center of the dial of your watch. To secure the mechanism, cut a circle from a cardboard sheet or wood. Its diameter should be the same as the hoop. The mechanism is glued to it. You can also simply hang it on a ribbon that is attached to the hoop. We recommend making a loop so that you can hang the accessory on the wall. All that remains is to screw the arrows and voila! See options for similar items in our photos of DIY wall clocks.

Option No. 2

A clock can also be made from old unwanted magazines/newspapers.

To do this you need to prepare: 24 pages of equal size; pencil, scissors, transparent adhesive tape, long needle, silk thread intended for embroidery/floss, transparent plastic disks (2 pcs.), a cardboard circle with a hole right in the center, a clock mechanism with arrows.

So, first you need to take a pencil that is wrapped in newspaper. The tubes need to be made accordingly, 24 pieces. Their ends should be secured with adhesive tape, then they naturally will not unwind. Approximately the third part needs to be moved back from the end of the tube, then bent in half here.

You need to insert a silk/floss thread into the needle, then thread it through the same bent tip of the paper tube. Pull the needle through and tie a knot at the end of the thread. Other tubes are sewn in the same way. They should be placed around your watch.

Place a prepared transparent disk on top of the tubes. This must be done so that the hole remains in the center of the circle, which was created thanks to the tubes. Then the mechanism is applied, taking into account that the place where your hands are fastened coincides with the hole in the disk. Then you need to turn the clock over and put in a second disk of the same type. Cardboard is placed on top of it, and the clock mechanism is attached using a nut. At the end, all you have to do is screw on the hour hands and voila!

We invite you to look through photos of ideas on how to decorate a wall clock, as a result of which you will succeed!

Photo of a handmade wall clock in the interior

This article describes the process useful device, which is in every home. Perhaps not even in a single copy. It's about about wall clocks. But this particular watch will be truly unique, since we will make it ourselves. No one else in the whole world will have exactly the same watch. Similar - perhaps, but all the same, ours will be exclusive, one of a kind.

Tools and materials used by the author of the homemade product:

1. Quite a lot of 32 mm long screws
2. M6 stud, threaded with screwed end
3. Wooden table top, width 200 mm
4. Black gloss paint
5. White craquelure paint
6. Clear acrylic varnish
7. Screwdriver
8. Screwdriver
9. Sandpaper
10. Hacksaw
11. Pliers
12. Vise
13. Drill
14. Reismus
15. Bulgarian

Manufacturing process.
First of all, we will need to draw a square with a side of 30 cm. After that, we draw our square into smaller squares with a side of 10 cm, so that in the end we get 9 squares. To do this, the author resorts to the help of a home-made thickness planer, which shows itself perfectly.

Since this time there was more sawing than usual, the author decided to use a jigsaw. In the absence of one of my own, I borrowed a jigsaw from a friend of mine. Of course, it is quite difficult to get perfectly even cuts without using guides, but in this homemade product this is not important, so, as they say, it will do.

Having cut nine blanks, we need to give them a marketable appearance. To do this, the author uses his own hand tool- sanding block. You can make such a simple device for yourself. Although it will be quite enough to use the usual sandpaper. To fix a square piece of wood, the author uses a vice. Manual process grinding nine wooden squares will take quite a long time. To reduce it, use the power tools you have on the farm to process the workpieces. At the output we get one large square, which consists of 9 smaller squares.

We put it aside temporarily and move on to the hairpins. We fix the M6 ​​pin on the workbench using a vice. We will need to cut it into five-centimeter pieces. In total, we will need as many as 12 such pieces to make a wall clock with our own hands. In order to somehow speed up the process, and in order not to bother with a tape measure, the author fixes the caliper at 50 mm and measures 12 segments. Using small pieces of masking tape, the author makes marks on metal pin.

The pieces measured in this way are sawed off using a grinder and also temporarily put aside.

Next, you need to choose in which square the clock mechanism will be located. In other words, you need to choose a square that will be located in the center of the entire structure. This does not play a special role, since if all 9 squares were cut quite evenly, and they were processed in the same way, then they will not be particularly different from each other. Well, maybe just a wood pattern. Yes, it is unique. In principle, any square can be the heart keeper of our watch.

We begin to gut the selected square. Using a chisel, we dig out a recess in the center; in this case, the body of the clock mechanism has a square shape, therefore, we will make the recess square. We measure the body of the clock mechanism and hollow out a place in the wood for it, observing the dimensions. For this procedure, of course, a router would be useful, but since the author does not have one, he used a hammer and a chisel. Using these methods and using these tools, the author spent about an hour on this stage.

After this, you need to carefully drill a hole in the center of our square. In this case, with a diameter of 9 millimeters.

Collect our squares into single design It needs to be on a flat and fairly hard surface. And with the help of a thicknesser we make marks that will be useful to us for joining the workpieces.

We will connect the workpieces using pins cut into pieces. Therefore, we drill a hole according to the marks. Next in drilled hole screw in the M6 ​​studs.

Then we proceed to one of the most interesting parts of our homemade product - assembling all the squares into one whole.

When assembling, the author at first thought that the rigidity was a little lacking, since he screwed a pin into each workpiece only 1 cm.

To give rigidity to the entire structure, he marked out the central square. A hole with a diameter of 5 mm is drilled in each side for an M6 stud.

Then you need to start putting numbers on the dial. We will not draw all the numbers, but only 3,6,9 and 12. In this way we will paint only 4 squares.

If you don't like this form of numbers, you can use any numbers, for example, Roman ones. Well, it will also look quite good. The author drew the numbers approximately by eye. This is because at the next stage, when marking, they will take on the same shape and you will understand why.

Since, according to the author’s idea, the numbers will be made from self-tapping screws, he measured the diameter of the screw head. In this case, the size was 8 mm. There is no need to place the screws tightly, so we add another 1 mm on each side to the 8 mm diameter of the screw head. As a result, we get a distance of 10 mm.

Next, the author fixed the caliper at a position of 1 cm and thus applied markings, which turned out, in principle, almost ideal. According to the marked marks, he drilled holes with a drill with a diameter of 3.3 mm to the depth of the middle of the tabletop.

Having finished drilling the holes for all the screws, the author applied a base coat of glossy black paint.

On top of the base black layer I applied a white craquelure layer of paint, which did not appear as intensely as I wanted. The simple fact is that the base layer would have to be applied two or even three times to the wooden surface.

All photos from the article

The topic of this article is wooden wall clocks. We will get acquainted with the history of the creation of all-wood mechanisms in our country and find out who and in what years created the most remarkable designs. In addition, we will get acquainted with the methods of making watches with our own hands - both based on a ready-made quartz watch mechanism, and from scratch, with all the mechanics made from.

Bronnikov watches

Whom did Herzen wake up?

Here are two facts that seem completely unrelated to each other:

• The writer Alexander Herzen, a comrade of the Decembrists and one of the theorists of the Russian revolution, was convicted back in 1834 “for singing libelous songs” and soon after that, in May 1835, he was exiled to the city of Vyatka;
• On March 31, 2001, they were sold at the Geneva antique auction wooden clock Russian master Bronnikov. The transaction price was a record for a watch movement - 34,500 Swedish francs. What is unusual about this fact is that the mechanism of the watch (fully working, despite being a century and a half old) was made entirely of wood.

What do these two events have in common?

The very concept of exile during Herzen’s life meant only that the disgraced nobleman was removed from the capital, while maintaining his civil privileges and status. Soon after moving to Vyatka, Alexander Ivanovich organized an exhibition of industrial products there.

Note: the official status of the enterprise organized by the exiled revolutionary was confirmed by the fact that the co-founder of the fair was the Zemskaya Uprava of the city (by today's standards - the municipality).

Herzen invited the most famous artisans of the city to exhibit their goods self-made, in order to stimulate trade between urban industrialists and neighboring cities and regions of the empire. One of those who responded was sixty-year-old wood turner Ivan Tikhonovich Bronnikov; His son, Semyon Ivanovich, helped him in his work.

Past tense, very significant compared to human life, erased many details of events and their sequence. Much of what happened in the 19th century leaves us guessing about its reasons.

Here is a scattering of facts and their retellings from that time related to the history of the wooden clock from Vyatka:

• Before that very exhibition organized by Herzen, father and son Bronnikov specialized in making boxes and caskets. Their business card there were wooden hinges made from birch burl - a special growth on the birch trunk, characterized by exceptional strength, resistance to moisture and shock loads;

It’s curious: a twenty-pound (just under 10 kg) birch burl was then sold for 50 rubles. For comparison, for the same money at an agricultural exhibition you could buy a purebred stud bull or several cows.

• One day Semyon Bronnikov was shown the mechanism of a pocket watch. They say that he was so shocked by its complexity that he immediately wanted to make his own version, but from the material familiar to the master - wood;
• Over the next few months, the master, whose products were in considerable demand, practically abandoned the work that brought him income and spent all his free time turning gears. Needless to say, the family was... let's say, not very happy with this development of events;
• His manic passion for watch mechanics gave a logical result: Bronnikov Sr. was committed to a psychiatric hospital by his relatives. Of course, for his own good;
• A year later, after leaving the hospital, he secretly continued to work on the clock and after some time showed the public a working copy. The watch case had a diameter of three centimeters and did not contain metal parts.

The idea of ​​creating a watch out of wood hung in my head for a very long time, it was ripening, so to speak.
At that time I was working at a wood processing plant, it would have been a sin not to take advantage of the opportunity to do something for myself.
So, after scouring the web, I found several sites where they offered to buy ready-made drawings/models. On one of the sites there were drawings available in PDF format. It was possible to buy it, but it was interesting to rebuild it yourself and, if necessary, make changes to the drawings.
The website itself: http://www.woodenclocks.co.uk/index.htm

Appearance:

Assembly diagram:

Scheme of operation of the anchor mechanism:

Model built in PowerShape:
breakdown by workpiece:

Assembly:

Naturally, I wrote the entire treatment myself. The processing was written in PowerMILL.
Processing the dial and small details.

Writing processing for gears.

He made watches from walnut and oak. The frame, dial, hands, and some small details are made of walnut. Walnut was used with a thickness of 16mm.
All gears are made of oak. The so-called “deck” blank is a 3mm thick veneer glued together under a press and calibrated to a size of 8mm. Made from re-glued material, because... I thought that the plywood would be more durable and less susceptible to warping.
I bought axles in a store, 6, 8 and 10 mm thick, made of beech. The factory does not have the equipment to produce such small items).

All processing was carried out on a FlexiCAM machine. This is not a small machine; in the photo, a sheet of plywood 2.5 * 1.5 meters is processed. There are other completely different details in the photo, perhaps more about them another time. I also did the processing on the machine myself and did not trust it to the operator. But somehow my hands were full and there was no camera at hand, so there is no photo of the actual processing on the machine ((.

Workpieces after the machine:

Sanded Gears

First build

And this is a small assistant. Grabbed the frame halves and let's run with them. Shouts - I'm a tractor!
After that I had to glue one of the halves. Blago is a tree good material, I can’t even find where I glued it after gluing it.

Dry assembly

Side view.
There is not one in this version yet metal part. When I first read the author’s website, he mentioned that you shouldn’t make axles out of wood, there will be problems with them, but then I somehow missed it.

Tiny seconds hand

All parts were covered with teak oil. Oil does not change the texture of the material, but highlights it and makes the color more saturated. Well, the details become a little matte. I like oil better than varnish.

Blocks for hanging loads.
If the weight is attached directly to the clock, then the winding will last for 12 hours. But this is not enough and the table under the clock interfered with this design. I let the rope go to the ceiling and to the corner where the load would not bother anyone. I used a chain hoist). As a result, the plant lasts for a couple of days. When the load is near the floor, the little one likes to kick it and tug at it))). I scold you.

The material is striped - I took scraps from blanks at the factory. This type of material - walnut and maple plywood - is called laminate. Butts are made from it, and they turn out very beautiful. But this is kind of exclusive. Usually it is walnut for oiling or beech for painting.

After covering it with oil, it turned out that the watch did not want to run. The sanded ones just walked without problems, and then they started to stop. I had to grind all the axes into the holes and lubricate them with graphite. In general, on the next watch I will install bearings everywhere, well, well... such problems.

The anchor is closer.
While I was adjusting, I got carried away and cut off the excess. I had to glue a little meat onto one of the teeth of the anchor.

Escape wheel
In general, a watch is a thing that requires precision and care in its manufacture. If you haven’t cleaned a tooth somewhere or left a burr, they will stop.

Final assembly
The author had to make changes to the design regarding the plant mechanism. Brian suggested making the plant with a key. Initially, I did just that, but after a month of use I realized that if I don’t change it, the clock will eventually stop working. Imagine, to start it for a day you need to make 24 revolutions of the wheel on which the thread is wound. 24 revolutions are 48 half-turn hand movements.
Taking into account the fact that the watch is hung high, the hand simply gets tired. I changed it so that when you pull the black cord, the watch starts. Fast and easy.

Preparing the location for wall mounting

Wall installation. The wall turned out to be uneven; the upper attachment point had to be moved a few millimeters from the wall, otherwise the pendulum would touch the bottom of the wall.

Installing blocks, passing the cord through the blocks

Preparation for cargo. So far the pipe is dirty and there isn't enough lead inside to finish it. In general, a load of one and a half kilograms is enough to operate the watch. I plan to hang the load on a triple chain hoist so that the plant will last for three days, so the load will need to be about 4 kg. The pipe will need to be shortened a little, but not by much. As a result, the length will be somewhere around 330 mm.

Well, what happened in the end, a few photos.

Many people think that wooden watches are not accurate watches. No, that's not true. This is a mechanism, everything is tied to the movement of the pendulum, and therefore to the force of gravity. I stopped adjusting them when the accuracy became about 30 seconds per day. I did not build a threaded metal rod into the pendulum, and the weight simply moves along the wood with tension. If you integrate a threaded rod, you can adjust it to precision in seconds.
The goal in production was to make a beautiful and useful thing, and not make a chronometer))).

What was unexpected is that the watch is quite loud. Those. they hang in the kitchen and at night you can hear them in the room)). This is the reason why they hang in the kitchen. Jaune cursed. She didn't like them at all
But I like. And I like the way they tick.
They create comfort with their measured pace.

The video can be viewed on the page in my world.

• • DIY wall clock? Well, so what, you can buy them in a watch store. Yes, it is possible, but they will already be ready and it will not be easy to add something to them or change them. As for your DIY watch, imagine that you can put anything on it. Because there are no restrictions.
    • • 1. Preparation. In my case, this is sprat from a crowned tree. Where can I get it from? Very simple! You can find a phone number in the “tree crowning” ad, call it and ask either for the sprat itself or for it to be cut into blanks – circles, as shown in the figure. In my case, the diameter of the circle was 31 cm and the thickness was 2.5 cm. How to determine what diameter you need? Buy a clock mechanism and use it as your guide. Very important role The thickness of the workpiece plays a role, since it determines whether it is necessary to make a pocket for the mechanism or not. In my case, I did it and it took quite a lot of time. In order not to repeat my mistake, cut the workpiece to a thickness of no more than 1 cm. Also, most likely the wood will still be damp, which means that when it dries, it may deform, so place the workpiece for 1 week or 2 in a warm place dry room. I even got a chip (see photo).
      • TOTAL material costs: 1,640 rubles (date 03/01/2015). These are my expenses, I think that for many they can be significantly lower because economic people have half of the above in their homes, or for others the costs may be higher. Share your information about this in the comments, it will help others navigate.

DIY wall clock. Made of wood

DIY wall clock? Well, so what, you can buy them in a watch store. Yes, it is possible, but they will already be ready and it will not be easy to add something to them or change them. As for your DIY watch, imagine that you can put anything on it. Because there are no restrictions.

A DIY wall clock is original and creative, and most importantly simple. Imagine how they make you happy every time you see them, how you hear the sounds of the clockwork, how time works for you.

This is what our watch looks like. How are yours?

By decorating the wall of your room or hallway, a DIY wall clock reminds you of another victory. After all, you made them yourself. Friends, acquaintances and guests who see it will probably take an interest in the watch and say something like: “Mm, interesting, but where did you get it from?” To which everyone will have their own answer. They might also want to make their own wall clock.

So, what do we need for a wall clock?

1 . Preparation. In my case, this is sprat from a crowned tree. Where can I get it from? Very simple! You can find a phone number in the “tree crowning” ad, call it and ask either for the sprat itself or for it to be cut into blanks – circles, as shown in the figure. In my case, the diameter of the circle was 31 cm and the thickness was 2.5 cm. How to determine what diameter you need? Buy a clock mechanism and use it as your guide. The thickness of the workpiece plays a very important role, since it determines whether it is necessary to make a pocket for the mechanism or not. In my case, I did it and it took quite a lot of time. In order not to repeat my mistake, cut the workpiece to a thickness of no more than 1 cm. Also, most likely the wood will still be damp, which means that it may deform when drying, so place the workpiece for 1 week or 2 in a warm, dry room. I even got a chip (see photo).

2. Clockwork. Can be purchased at almost any watch store or ordered online. I bought a German one from the store, it cost 400 rubles, the set included arrows and a battery.

The German clock movement kit includes hands and battery.

3. A ruler and a pencil are in every home, and anyone can buy them.

4 . Matchbox or burning device.

5 . A regular or stationery knife, cost from 85 rubles.

6. Wood glue, cost from 65 rubles.

7. Transparent varnish on wood, matte or glossy, choose to suit your taste. I took a matte varnish with a capacity of 1 liter, although 250 grams should be enough. The bank cost me 500 rubles.

8 . Screwdriver with wood drill with a diameter of 60-80 mm.

9 . Chisel and hammer.

10 . A varnish brush, costing 85 rubles (it is advisable to take a thin one to make it easier to coat hard-to-reach places and crevices).

eleven . Black marker for coloring numbers. You can take any other color to your taste. The marker cost 95 rubles.

12 . Leaf skins of large and small grains.

TOTAL material costs: 1,640 rubles (date 03/01/2015). These are my expenses, I think that for many they can be significantly lower because economic people have half of the above in their homes, or for others the costs may be higher. Share your information about this in the comments, it will help others navigate.

Step 1. Our workpiece must be sanded and sanded so that the surface is smooth and pleasant to the touch. To do this, we use coarse-grained sandpaper, then, when the surface is smoothed, we sand it with fine-grained sandpaper.

Skinning

Step 2. Measure the middle and drill a hole through which the base of the clock mechanism will pass.

Step 3. On the back side we make a recess (pocket) for the clock mechanism, if necessary. How to do it? I made a lot of holes with a regular drill, and then knocked them out with a chisel and hammer, then sanded the surface as best I could.

Step 4. We construct arrows - numbers from matches, then paint them over with a marker. You can burn it with a burning device, or apply artistic cutting. In general, there are no restrictions!

I got the following numbers) What are yours?

Step 5. Measure out where the numbers should be and glue them with wood glue.

Step 6. We check how the clock mechanism fits and works, and then we begin to varnish. We varnish in 2 or 3 layers depending on the varnish (read the instructions on the varnish can).

Step 7. We mount the clock mechanism using self-tapping screws or glue it with glue.

V U A L Y

Congratulations, now you can be proud and see your wall clock on the wall of your house, apartment, office or cottage.