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Each of us can make an excellent souvenir - a plywood clock - with our own hands. Moreover, for this it is not at all necessary to have complex skills, because for the successful implementation of this project, skill and imagination are enough.

How to make a plywood clock and how to decorate it, we will tell in our article.

Materials and tools

Despite the fact that the task before us is not difficult, it should be taken on only after careful preparation. And at the first stage, it is worth purchasing all the necessary materials, as well as checking the availability of a tool that we will definitely need in our work:

Stage	Instruments	materials
Training	a computer with a graphic or text editor; ruler; compass; pencil.	paper or tracing paper; copy paper.
Case manufacturing	drill with a drill for wood; manual or electric jigsaw for curly cutting; screwdriver.	plywood up to 10 mm thick for the base. plywood up to 5 mm thick for making numbers and decor; sandpaper; clockwork.
Finishing	fine-grained skin for wood; airbrush or brush; sponge for decoupage.	paint for wood; clear or tinted varnish; craquelure; napkins for decoupage.

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Pendulum clock Deer

not simple, for professionals and craftsmen.

Craft drawing:

pendulum clock

Try to cut out such a clock. craft complex- for masters in sawing. The watch will serve as a convenient thing for you. The result of the work will surely interest your relatives and friends.

In the craft, you can place a mechanical watch that will serve as a convenient thing for you.

Craft drawing:

Clock "Flower Cathedral"

Try to cut out such a clock. The craft will appeal to everyone and will serve as a convenient thing for you.

To cut the craft perfectly, you will need a lot of patience.

The selection of plywood depends on the size of the parts, in this case you will need a lot of plywood. Before transferring the drawing to plywood, clean it with a sandpaper with a large grain, and finish with a fine one. It is more convenient to grind with a wooden block wrapped in sandpaper. Sanding the finished plywood along the layers, not across. A well-sanded surface should be smooth, perfectly smooth, glossy-matt in the light and silky to the touch. Pay attention to the location of the fibers, knots, dents and other defects. Quality and color.

You need to translate the drawing accurately and accurately: fix the drawing with the buttons or simply hold it with your left hand. Check if the drawing fits the dimensions. Arrange the individual parts so that the plywood sheet is used as economically as possible.

When sawing, try to keep the jigsaw always straight and cut exactly along the line you marked. Try to cut the details with sharp corners, so the craft will look more beautiful. Saw slowly, there is no hurry here. When all the details have been sawn out, it is necessary to sand the surface again, only with a fine-grained sandpaper. If there are burrs and irregularities after stripping, clean the parts with needle files.

In the craft, you can place a mechanical watch that will serve as a convenient thing for you.

After stripping, you need to collect the details according to the picture. Try to collect crafts. If the parts do not go into the right places, file them. When you assemble the craft, carefully look for burrs, if not, then glue the craft.

You need to glue the clock with PVA or titan glue. You don’t need to pour a lot of glue, if glue is visible on the craft, it will be ugly. When the craft is glued, it is necessary to varnish the shelf.

Craft drawing:

pendulum clock

Try to cut out such a clock. The craft is difficult - for masters in sawing. The craft will appeal to everyone.

To cut the craft perfectly, you will need a lot of patience. The craft will take you a month of work.

The selection of plywood depends on the size of the parts, in this case you will need a lot of plywood. Before transferring the drawing to plywood, clean it with a sandpaper with a large grain, and finish with a fine one. It is more convenient to grind with a wooden block wrapped in sandpaper. Sand the harvested plywood along the layers, not across. A well-sanded surface should be smooth, perfectly smooth, glossy-matt in the light and silky to the touch. Pay attention to the location of the fibers, knots, dents and other defects. Quality and color.

In the craft, you can place a mechanical watch that will serve as a convenient thing for you.

Craft drawing:

Watch "American Pride"

Try to make such a watch that everyone will surely like. The craft will decorate an empty wall and serve as a convenient thing for you. Work complex.

Let's start with sanding plywood.

The selection of plywood depends on the size of the parts, in this case you will need a lot of plywood. Before transferring the drawing to plywood, clean it with a sandpaper with a large grain, and finish with a fine one. It is more convenient to grind with a wooden block wrapped in sandpaper. Sand the harvested plywood along the layers, not across. A well-sanded surface should be smooth, perfectly smooth, glossy-matt in the light and silky to the touch. Pay attention to the location of the fibers, knots, dents and other defects. Quality and color.

The transfer of the drawing to plywood is carried out using a copy, a ruler and a pencil. Translate without haste. There is no hurry here. After the drawing has been transferred to plywood, it is necessary to drill holes with a hand drill with a No. 3 drill.

In the craft, you can place a mechanical watch that will serve as a convenient thing for you.

When sawing, take your time and watch your posture. Saw with a jigsaw exactly along the line you marked. Avoid bevels and curved lines. Saw carefully.

After you have cut out all the details, try to assemble the craft. Please refer to the drawing for assembly. If some parts are not included in the desired parts, file them. When the craft is assembled without problems - glue it. You need to glue the clock with PVA or titan glue. You don't need to pour a lot of glue.

When the craft is glued, it is necessary to varnish the stand.

Craft drawing:

Good day to all dear friends! In today's article, I would like to show you an interesting homemade product to decorate your room. Namely, how to make a “mechanical watch”, a homemade product is essentially very simple to manufacture, and absolutely everyone, even a child, can make it. We will use cheap plywood as the main material, and the mechanism itself can be purchased from our Chinese friends or taken from old watches that are already tired. Well, let's not waste time and start assembling homemade products.

For this DIY we need:

Plywood sheet (30x30cm will be more than enough)
- Clock mechanism with arrows
- Dominoes (will serve as clock face numbers)
- Ice cream sticks
- Battery (for clockwork).

Of the tools we will also need:

- Manual jigsaw
- Electric jigsaw (optional)
- Sandpaper
- Drill with drills
- Hot glue
- Ruler
- Compass
- Marker
- Square.

To begin with, let's take a sheet of plywood, a square sheet with dimensions of 30 × 30 cm will be enough. On the sheet of plywood you have taken, using a ruler and a compass, draw a circle with a radius of 10 cm. This circle will be the size of the clock (i.e. 20 cm) , if you have a desire to make the clock larger then make the circle larger. After that, inside the circle just drawn, three more circles should be drawn according to the dimensions indicated below. That is, with radii of 7 cm, 4 cm, and 3 cm.

Then, to create a simple “pattern”, we need a Ruler and a square, or, like the author of a homemade product, a square with a ruler. We draw two lines through the centers of the circle so that they are perpendicular to each other, for a more accurate result it is better to use a square.

We continue to draw lines on plywood. Parallel to the lines just drawn at a distance of 1 cm, draw more lines. In the end, it should look something like the one shown in the photo below. Mark the parts to be cut with a marker.

After doing the above steps, proceed to sawing. First, let's cut out the very base of the clock. To do this, we will use an electric jigsaw, but if you don’t have one, you can use the simplest manual jigsaw. First, we cut out about 5 mm from the edge, and then we carefully cut the edges along the contour more accurately.

Then we need to cut out the “patterns” marked with a marker inside the circle. To do this, you will need to take a drill and a manual jigsaw. Just take a drill with a thicker drill and drill a through hole. After the through hole has been drilled, remove the blade from the manual jigsaw, and put it back on the jigsaw through the previously made hole so that the blade is inside the plywood. And we actually drink. We do this with all four parts.

For aesthetics, the workpiece should be sanded with at least simple sandpaper. For grinding, first use a larger sandpaper, and then a smaller one.

In the center of the workpiece we make a through hole for the installation of the clock mechanism. The hole in diameter should be slightly larger than the diameter of the seats of the clock hands.

Now let's make the hands of the clock. Namely, we will make our own minute and hour hands. To make arrows, we need ice cream sticks, and in order to distinguish arrows, we need sticks from different ice cream. If you cannot find two different ice cream sticks, then you can take two identical ones, but change one of them. To install our arrows on the mechanism, one through hole should be made in them. For the hour hand, you need a 5.5 mm drill, and for the minute hand, 3.5 mm (no more, no less).

Let's make a dial. To do this, take a wooden blank and turn it over with the clean side up. And now we should stick or draw numbers on the dial. The author of the homemade product decided to make a very unusual dial and used dominoes as numbers. To do this, take a set of dominoes and take out one domino from it with the sum of dots on them from 1 to 12. We will glue the dominoes to the plywood using hot glue. First glue the numbers 12, 3, 6, and 9, and then all the rest.

For the next step, we need the clock mechanism itself, and we will install it. To do this, turn the dial over again and use the same hot glue to glue the mechanism to the dial, as shown in the photo below.

Then we should decide where and how the clock will be installed, that is, they will be desktop or wall. The author decided to make his clock wall, and therefore made, and then glued the following mount (see photo below).

Comfort and coziness in our home sometimes depends on even the smallest details and elements. Even most interior designers agree that the most important attributes for getting comfort in the house are well-chosen curtains, original lamps, soft and chosen in the right shade, blankets, pillows, bath rugs and clocks.

This article will focus on a master class on how to decorate a clock at home yourself.

There are a large number of photos of watches on the Internet, most of them are made by famous designers, but making original watches at home is also not difficult.

There is, of course, one key and difficult moment - this is the installation of a mechanism on the clock for its operation, but the finished mechanism should be bought in a store and installed according to the instructions. But the appearance of the future watch and its rest design completely depends on personal preferences and tastes.

There are several modern techniques that help to independently make watches in any style.

Decoupage watch style

A similar technique for designing and creating a wall clock involves working with a ready-made store template, where there is already a blank, the base of the hands and the finished mechanism. You can also purchase ready-made patterns on paper, special paints, glue and other decoupage elements.

The workpiece for the clock is made in this way: several times the base is covered with a primer of acrylic paints, and finally polished. The desired shade and texture is given to the base in the next step.

There is one trick - if you want to make an old-style clock with a shade that is scuffed, then the paint must be applied with a sponge.

Decorating a wall clock with your own hands is a process of bringing out the imagination and creativity of a person. You can stick special water stickers on the base. Or draw a preliminary sketch yourself and transfer it to the dial.

After that, the finished mechanism and arrows with numbers are already attached. After a series of actions, the clock created by your own hands will come to life and will give the house a special original look.

Quilling clock

Quilling is an arts and crafts process in which you work with straight strips of multi-colored paper of various widths. Such strips, as a rule, are twisted and glued to the surface, while creating the most varied patterns and pictures.

To create a clock using this technique, it is best to take a tree as the basis of the clock, since quilling elements can be well glued to it.

The color scheme should be in harmony with the interior of the room. After all, a bright clock will look ugly in a room made in a minimalist style. Therefore, the choice of shade is a key point in this matter.

Most often, multi-colored quilling elements are used to create flowers, insects, trees, animals, berries, and so on.

Plaster clock

Ordinary gypsum tiles will serve well as the basis for future watches.

Romantic and reverent natures will surely find a large number of solutions for creating watches from this material.

Among professionals, such a tile is called a medallion. The mechanism of the future clock is attached to its back side. To make the product look more elegant and restrained, its surface should be covered with matte paint in light colors.

And, if you want some highlights, then glossy paint will do.

Note!

This material is most suitable for creating clocks in the bedroom. At the same time, shades are chosen - beige, pale pink, pearl, the color of coffee with milk, purple and so on.

Clock with wooden sticks

In this situation, you should have items such as sticks and quality wood, good glue, scissors, and a ready-made work clock with a flat surface in your arsenal.