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This article is about making a wooden gear clock from a plan purchased online.
It will make one rotation every 60 seconds.
This would give you a clock that you only had to rewind once a week or so.
Enabling you to make a beautiful wooden clock that will be both an heirloom and a conversation piece.
Thankfully my buddy rick urschel is not nearly as impatient as i am.
I m not sure i have enough patience to cut out one wooden gear let alone the multitude required to construct a fully functional clock.
Many pendulum clocks have the escape gear on the second hand axle.
The most popular plans are clayton boyer clocks.
As the pendulum swings back and forth it rotates the escape lever in and out of the escape gear.
That is what we are going to do.
A hand made wooden clock is one of those projects i like to marvel at.
As discussed in how gear ratios work you can create a high ratio gear train that causes the drum to make perhaps one turn every six to 12 hours.
The gear ratio between the weight drum and the escapement gear might be something like 500 1 as shown in the diagram below.