Meg: Hey everyone and welcome to—
Female: Meg, you really need to do an episode on clocks because your chronic tardiness is annoying. All right, see you later.
Meg: Okay so future Meg just send in a request about clocks. Do you know what time it is? It’s to—yourself a clock. This week we’re heading to New York Clock Studio to make our own hand made repurpose time telling machines.
Andrea Alifi: I’m Andrea Alifi welcome to my apartment here in the East Village in Manhattan. This is a home of New York clocks. I make clocks from found vintage and recycled items. I tried not to buy items new but I have clocks like from Aunt Jemima my pancake box, from cigar boxes, tea tins, postcards, photographs that people send me so I also custom.
Today, I’m going to show how to make your very own clock. So all the supplies we’re going to need to make a clock while you’ve got to have a mechanism. So I order my mechanisms online at clockparts.com. On the website, I also order the rest of the parts. Washer, the knot, the minute hand and then the hour hand, they’re black on one sided white on the other so you can actually just put them on whichever way you’d like that matches the clock. And the last piece is the screw.
And then you just need the item you’re going to make a clock out of. So today, I’m going to demonstrate this tin which I just got in Denmark. I actually just came back from Europe. For older clocks you need a power drill. This drill beat is exactly the right size to fit the mechanism in without having to add anything. It’s just a perfect right size. I just figured it out by measuring it and going to the hardware store and buying a drill beat that works.
Ideally, you’d want to wear maybe some like protective goggles like when you’re chemistry in high school. All right, I’m just going to pretty much eyeball in the middle and then drill away. See? Pretty easy and fast. Okay, I’ve drilled the hole next. I put in the mechanism as you just popped right in, there you go. So the first piece to go on is this round flat ring. The next piece is the knot so I screw this on until it’s tight. Shorthand goes on first. You can do either color by flipping it over it’s black on one side and white on the other and then the second hand goes on after now. And now the last piece to go on is this little screw.
Really I mean, not even three minutes once you’ve got your materials together. When you’re ready to sell this or give this away, you would just add one double A battery and you can just hop right in here. Once it’s set to the right time, it’s a working clock and you can always change the time by going like that.
Meg: When we come back, I’ll show you some more DIY clock ideas and what you could win by sending us the coolest DIY video. Have a home décor dilemma? We’ll help you solve it and décor it yourself new every Wednesday right here on Threadbanger.
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