Scroll sawn clock by my 15 year old.

[ericspaw]

My teen aged son decided to build a clock last year. I assumed he would make an insert clock model, but instead he showed me the Spring 2011 issue of Scrollsaw magazine.

With the fearlessness of a teenager, he cut out, sanded, filed and assembled the clock. My assistance was minimal-only helping out with jigs and technique. After about a 15 months, here is the finished product.

Materials were baltic birch plywood and misc scraps from the shop for supporting parts. The hardest parts was finding a 4' dowel and hunting down the lead shot for the weight. It was cutout on an RBI 220 scrollsaw.

[Hobbyhorse]

You must be very proud of him Eric ... please pass on my congratulations.

Rhys

[SteveK]

15? Wow, time for me to quit!

Teasing, what. Great job!

[tvman44]

More guts than me.

[Jan]

That is marvelous! Those are so difficult and he's done a perfect job. Congratulations to him.

Jan

[Greenfield_Bob]

That would be great work for a 30 year old.
Keep up the the great work.

Bob

[Sally]

Wonderful! He should be very proud of himself!! I can tell you are proud of him!

[RangerJay]

Holy smoke -looks like he has an obvious talent that has the potential to take him a lot of places ......


Jay

[comreno]

Beautiful job.
Thanks for sharing.
Larry

[Wood Dog]

Sweeeet job, hope he continues with the hobby.

[evilbadger]

He did an excellent job on the clock. Which one is he going to try next?

[Rolf]

WOW that is quite an accomplishment. The wood selections really make the clock pop.
How well does it run?

[sawman101]

Nice work! That is a difficult project for almost everybody.

[RichB]

Great Job. My problem would be, it would not work. Thanks for showing it.

[HAMMER]

SWEEEEET. He is a natural...