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This clock is made mainly from mild steel. The shape was worked out on paper, marked on the steel and then cut out with a welding torch. The numbers were small brass rivets polished then inserted. The legs were three pieces of fine steel wire twisted together and flattened at each end. The legs were brazed to the base. The central stem was brazed into a pre drilled hole in the base and brazed directly to the back of the face. The twist was made by bending 4mm steel wire round a 10 mm diameter bar and brazed to hold it centrally round the stem. The finish was polyurethane varnish with hand painted gold edging.

A frame was made from pitch pine and grooved all the way round. Mitres were at each corner. The small squares at each corner were made from mahogany. The four large outer pieces housing the numbers were made from beech. The centre square was made from oak. All the pieces were grooved on the edges and fixed to each other using the loose tongue method with glue. The finish was polyurethane varnish. 

Two views of a clock made from mahogany with a brass face and aluminium rivets for numerals. The top and bottom were dowelled onto the sides using 5mm dowel. The right hand side (looking from the back) was recessed to take the door (it can be seen). The door was drilled from top to bottom using a 3mm drill and a brass wire inserted which was longer than the door height. The top and bottom of the clock were drilled to receive the protruding wires, thus making a hinge. The finish was polyurethane varnish. 
Made from brass, aluminium and mahogany. The star was marked out and cut from sheet brass. The aluminium hexagon was milled from a solid piece 10 mm thick and riveted to the brass using brass rivets. The aluminium rivets were to highlight the missing numbers. The piece of mahogany was hand planed to fit into the aluminium hexagon. The stem was made from 6mm diameter brass silver soldered to the star. The leaves were marked out, curled and engraved with veins to give a more realistic appearance. These were silver soldered to the stem. The finish was polyurethane varnish. 

Four squares were marked on a brass sheet and folded using folding bars to produce a hollow square. The join was silver soldered. The square was placed on a sheet of brass and silver soldered to it. The excess was cut off. The whole (topless) cube was polished and the inside coated with felt. A thin groove was cut into a piece of oak and slotted over one side of the cube and glued with araldite. The lid was shaped at 45 degrees at the top and recessed to fit into the aperture of the cube (recess can be seen). A short length of piano hinge fixed top to glued oak strip. The finish was polyurethane varnish. 
A view of a clock with a carved oak face. The mechanism has been recessed into the wood as it has with many of the wooden clocks. The shape was cut using a coping saw and jig saw. The carving was hand done using traditional gouges. The stem was glued with araldite into the flower edge. The leaves of sheet brass were soft soldered onto the stem. The legs were silver soldered into a round bush which was drilled with two holes at right angles to each other. The bush was silver soldered onto the stem. The finish was polyurethane varnish. 

Heavy brass was used for top and bottom (5mm thick) the end bars were silver soldered into pre drilled blind holes in the top and bottom  plates. The mahogany face was drilled to accept small rounds of brass for the numbers. The mechanism was recessed into the mahogany. The finish was polyurethane varnish. 
The outer case was made of beech, lap jointed at the corners. The face, from sheet brass was slotted into a groove cut into the sides as was the glass. The rear door was hinged on using two very small cut brass box hinges. The rivets for numbers were brass. The base was screwed on from underneath. The finish was polyurethane varnish. 

This clock was machined from a solid piece of wood. The mechanism was recessed into the wood. The face was made from three layers of plastic glued together. The top layer was black. The second layer was yellow and the third layer was white. The gold circles were drilled to reveal the third (white) layer and then filled with gold paint.

This is a sample of clocks made from a variety of materials. All were hand made and were accompanied by a project of about 30 - 40 pages.