DIY wall clock out of wood

I had a circular piece of plywood left over from my basketball hoop project and I decided to make a wall clock out of it. You can watch how it was made here.

First of all I rounded over the edges using my router and a round over bit.

I wanted the clock to have a few curves on it’s design so I made a special router jig for that.

First I traced the body of the clock on a scrap MDF piece and cut it out on the scroll saw. 

I nailed the MDF piece on my bench. I created a pivot point on my bench using my drill and a metal rod. This way the main circle can move around it on my bench.

Then I took my compass and measured four equal arches on the main circle.I mounted the router and my circle cutting jig on the new jig. I brought the beginning of the first arch in line with the circular jig’s center and I made the first cut. I turned it to the second point of the arch and routed again. I did that four times. Now I had four integrated arches on my clock’s body.

I sanded the piece with 120 grit sand paper.

On the back I traced the mechanism of the clock.

I mounted my guide bushing on my router. I took my caliper and measured the distance between the end of the router bit and the beginning of the guide bushing. transferred this distance around the traced path of the mechanism. I took my glue gun and glued four scrap pine pieces on the clock. This way the router created a hole for the clock to go into, which was the size of the clock plus the size of he router bit. I completed the cut on three passes.

I painted the clock with latex paint.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find clock hands delivered to me soon so I made my own clock hands. I cut an empty plastic bottle and painted them white with a spray can. I drilled holes on them to fit snuggly on the clock’s mechanism. I used my caliper to measure the widths I needed. 

To mount the clock on the wall I used two metal rings and string.

I glued the mechanism with hot glue and added the clock’s hands. First you add the hour hand on the white piece and then the minute hand on the metal piece above it.

The clock is ready!