Our new spare room is decorated much like the spare room in our condo. There's a Paris theme with lots of French stuff. But there's almost three times as much wall space in our new house and that left us a large gap over the bed with nothing to fill it. My wife really wanted a fancy clock to go there but I was too cheap to spend hundreds of dollars on the one she wanted. Instead I threw this together for under $20.
The first step was to make a template. The template gets screwed to the middle of a square piece of half inch MDF. With a router inserted into the holes, rotating the template cuts the circles. The other holes were used to make a keyhole slot on the back and to drill the holes to mark the hours.
I then used Minwax Polyshades classic black left over from refinishing a dresser to finish the MDF.
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The first step was to make a template. The template gets screwed to the middle of a square piece of half inch MDF. With a router inserted into the holes, rotating the template cuts the circles. The other holes were used to make a keyhole slot on the back and to drill the holes to mark the hours.
I then used Minwax Polyshades classic black left over from refinishing a dresser to finish the MDF.
The Minwax worked great on the MDF and I would use it again. The problem was that the shop was far too dark at the time and I couldn't see to get an even coat on. The camera flash exaggerates the unevenness but in person it's not so bad.
Creating the template took much longer than making the clock. I should probably grab another piece of 1/2" MDF and make another one with a cleaner finish and use this one on the wall in the shop.
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