Wooden Clocks

A design journal for Wooden clocks, with occasional thoughts on side issues related to clock design, materials, mechanisms and automata in general. To see all the clocks visit the main website at www.woodenclocks.co.uk

Thursday, 13 February 2014

Designing a new Gravity escapement

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History The accuracy of a clock is dependant upon rate at which the pendulum swings and this can be adversely affected by friction at the...

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Thursday, 21 February 2013

Gear design software

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Following from the last post the following list of sites offer Gear profile generators to create the gears for you. http://woodgears.ca/...

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Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Gear Train design for the wooden clock

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The gears used in all of my clocks have geometry based on the standard gear profile formulae with some adjustment to the tooth profile t...

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Friday, 25 January 2013

Clock 15 - Latest developments

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The design of Clock 15 is now complete, with all the features incorporated. I have attached some renders of the model below to give a pr...

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Friday, 18 January 2013

Materials for Wooden Clocks

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I have been wondering for a while now what wood to use for the next clock that I build. I used Oak for the Clock 14 and was really quite dis...

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Friday, 11 January 2013

Woodenclocks new web posting

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This is to be the first of many postings which hopefully follow the development of the new clocks as they evolve through the design and ...

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