Hi there,
I am doing a wall clock for a client with personalized exchangable affirmation notes. The idea is to have a wall clock and about 30 different affirmation notes that the client could use on the clock every day. The clock shape isn’t decided yet. I now have two ideas I could use:
Affirmation cards as long rectangle shapes which slide into a multilayer clock
Hanging affirmation cards - one or two small hangers on the clock and cards which hang on these
If the watch in question has hands, I don’t have any great ideas to add.
I know, however, that there are watches in which one of the hands is a disc. (I don’t know exactly how it works.) But with that idea in mind, I could open a window on that disc so that the messages engraved in the background would be visible as the disc (hand) moves.
The dimensions of the clock should determine the size of the affirmation. Battery or windup/pendulum, and its readable Msg x 30.
How many words maximum in longest Msg & what size readable lettering…from what distance.
Overall shape. rectangle, square or circular face with section below to hold affirmations that are placed in front by rotation…manually & easy to swap out so it does get done…every day.
Thickness of materials…could you do 2mm x 30 =60mm + wiggle room & a framed slot in the side to slide in todays Msg…so its plum n level. 3mm might be stronger and avg wall clock is aprox 90mm to 100mm from wall to front (in vintage style) with the Msg/frame protruding out in line with bezel frame.
Wow, full tutorial thank you. Just don’t understand the thickness - 2mm x30 = 60mm? I should make a clock base 60mm thick? Im doing it out of 2 or 3 maybe 3 layers of 3mm…
3mm is generous and should give a quality to each Msg piece of wood x 30 days, thats 90mm…if they are placed front to back. then you have the box that they are placed in 3mm each back & front…so 90+6 = total front to back.
Then if you want a frame for the clock face (you burn on your numbers ‘style’ any personalization on the clock face, with centre hole cut for the works to pop through to put the hands on and cut out the clock face circle, or square, or octagon and cut a wider circle, square or octagon to glue on top…gives depth + you can engrave scrolls or whatever syle around that…also more layers off 3mm to fit glass/perspex over clock face for more quality (cutout on back for adjusting time).
So the width of your Msg board + the thickness of 3mm each side is your total width of clock ‘case’ which is a vertical rectangle’ and a horizontal rectangle cut in the ‘clock case’/body (like a shoebox standing on one end, The circle clock face at the top (on the outside of shoebox and the horizontal window cut at the bottom of the shebox…and the Msg boards go inside the box…and viewed through that window.
Put a cut frame around that window with another bit of style engraving.
If you have a door on the side you can just remove yesterdays Msg board from the front and place it at the back…which pushes all boards forward and the new front Msg board sits nice and neat…and viewable.
Can you do those clip together box joint cuts? If so the “lets call it a shoebox” the lid of shoebox and base of shoebox will sit flush with the sides.
So the sides of the shoebox have to be 96mm (from the wall-out) + maybe a couple mm wigle room so all the Msg boards aren’t jammed to tight.
thank you. Just don’t understand the thickness - 2mm x30 = 60mm? I should make a clock base 60mm thick? Im doing it out of 2 or 3 maybe 3 layers of 3mm…