Recycled clock

[jgrobler]

I just made a frame from the Ash leftovers from my kitchen cabinets, to replace the old not-so-nice-anymore frame. The rim was painted yellow to go with the walls, as LOML refused to see the hunters green again. The edge was routered to the same edge profile as the cabinets.

[cabinetman]

The frame came out great. I can appreciate your efforts in the cutting and glue up of all the 22 1/2 degree pieces. I know what a PITA it is to get a good fit, and then clamp up. Yours came out really nice. Got any interim pictures? Or pictures of you pulling your hair out?

[Pappy]

Nice! The grain really catches the eye.

[mater]

A nice project. The frame is beautiful.

[lrogers]

Very nice work!

[RodKirby]

Looks great!

[John Hunter]

Very nice.

[jgrobler]

Thanks for the compliments.
I clamped the 8 pieces with Rockler's band clamp and some 135 degree "wedges" I rough-cut on a band saw. (I first glued 7 of the 8 pieces, so I could get the rough inner circle cut on the band saw, before gluing up the 8th piece. Then rough cut the outer circle, then used a "table mounted belt sander" as a disc sander to finetune the outer circle and DP mounted sanding drum for the inner circle.

Then the task that I was nervious about, routing the recess inside for the clock, and the profile outside. I effectively did climb-cuts to prevent tearout, and show the process below. The first pic shows routing the recess in the inner circle, keeping the piece against the fence for support. The next shows the cabinet door profile that I put on the outside, and how I buried the bit in my router fence, about 1/4" (from 1/2" to 1/4" in several passes), and use the large fence opening as guides for the workpiece. Just rotated it through, keeping it firm against both corners in the fence opening.

[bthere]

That looks really nice. It's interesting all of the clever technique that goes into making something like this.

By the way, I am scratching my head and trying to figure out why I am drawing a blank on what the "table mounted band saw" is.


I also agree on the routing. I am always nervous when there are somewhat irregular shapes or relatively small radius curves that want to be edge shaped after a lot of work has gone into the piece.

[jgrobler]

Oops, the table mounter band saw is a mistake, should be belt sander. I turned my belt sander on it's side, clamped to a melamine with wood screw clamps, and used it as a disk sander or fixed belt sander.

[ejs1097]

Looks great. I really like seeing the angles and having the outer/inner being a circle. Very interesting and pleasing to look at.

I imagine everytime you look to see what time it is, you'll just see that beautiful frame, look away and think, "What time is it again?"

[crokett]

Very nice indeed and I do like the grain. Your kitchen is about the same color yellow as mine.