I will have to trim the sides to length then glue it to the top.

OK, now we make the base it sits on. A little fancy router work to make it look good and we are ready for assembly. It has a 26 deg. slant to it and I will have to cut 45's at the corner. It's a compound angle that after a little trial and error came out to a 40 deg. saw tilt and a 23 deg. angle on the miter gauge. The big problem was holding it together while it glued. I made these little wire clamps out of a coat hanger, put sharp points on them and stretched them to pull the pieces together while keeping everything square.

How To Smoke A Cigar

Sit Back, Relax, and Learn How To Smoke A Cigar

http://howtosmokeacigar1.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-smoke-cigar-and-not-get-sick.html

WALKING AND BEER:

A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles per year.

Another study found Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of beer a year.

That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon.

Kind of makes you proud to be an American.

After cleaning up the glue on the main body the next step was to make the actual base it will sit on.
It has allot of compound angles and router work and I decided not to run machinery that day, just drink some beer and work on the very top piece of the clock......OH did i fail to mention that this is my first attempt at carving.

The next day this is what came out. After a little clean up of the glue and mounting it to the base I was quite pleased. By the way, everything is covered in wax paper to prevent it from sticking to the fixture.

Well, the garden is planted and there seems to be a gap in mandatory family functions so lets do some woodworking on the clock. It will be made out of Walnut.
The first thing we need to make is the body.It holds everything together. It is a tall piece that has a 6 in. radius at the top and must be bent.
"Lions, Tigers and Bears Oh My", no steamer. We will do the hot water trick. First we cut kerfs .375(3/8in.) apart and down to leave about .094 (3/32) wood left at the top. While the practice piece is soaking in the water I made the fixture.(pic) After breaking the first one the second one seemed to work better.
So with great care and longer soak time the real piece worked just fine. I filled in the kerfs with Gorilla Glue and let it sit in the fixture overnight. Beer and seegar time.

"Be who you are and say how you feel, because the people who matter don’t mind and the people who mind don’t matter."

Dr Seuss

Don't Forget: Drink a Beer—Or Two—Daily!

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=dont-forget-drink-a-beer&ec=su_beer3

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

I bought the dial plate, the dial, extra pendulum, winding key, and glass for the door. The mechanism in the middle right hand side is an alarm. It's an alarm you set and works kinda like a egg timer.
On or off. It has an obnoxious sound as it rings the bell and will get you out of bed real fast. Once out of bed there is no way to shut it off till the spring runs out. Sounds nasty but a lot of these type clocks had them so what the heck.

Daily caffeine 'protects brain'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7326839.stm

First purchase for the Gingerbread clock is the movement.
It is a Eight-Day American style brass movement. I bought the
complete movement. Comes with pendulum, hands,
key, gong, and gong base.

I just finished another clock.This is called an Ogee Clock.You can Google image it if you like.There are many variations in the bottom half.I chose a mirror mainly because I found an old one and cut it to fit. Well my daughter walked in and she loved it to pieces and that was the end of that.
You can see some of my other clocks here if your interested .Right click and view image.Don't bother with the guest book, it never worked.
tinyurl.com/936yh [tinyurl.com]
I am going to start another clock here shortly and I thought I would post some pictures start to finish.
It's called a Gingerbread clock.

"The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.( mediamatters.org/columns/200803180001 [mediamatters.org] ). With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."

-- U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, quoted in the New York Times, April 9, 1944