Wall Clock

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.

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.

-G