Clock hands after painting

I decided to dress up the Alinco tri-bander today! Here's 'Steampunk Radio Operator Bear in Space'

A Christmas present for my Dad who is 97 this year. He had a couple of Oliver tractors, an old Oliver 90 (90, not 99, the 90 came before the 99) and an Oliver 1650. This badge is the same as on the Oliver 1650. The tractors are still in the family, my brother has the Oliver 90 and we have the 1650 here at our place in Tucson. Since he can't drive them anymore, having this to hang on the wall will hopefully give him some pleasant memories.

The badge is made from 0.2 inch thick orange, black and green acrylic cut on the xTool D1 Pro laser and Alumilite Clear Slow resin tinted with Alumilite white dye.

The following pictures show additional views of the completed logo and the progress to completing this project.

Packing the Oliver Logo Badge for Christmas

Couldn't find a box that worked well, so I made one using a template from www.templatemaker.nl/en/boxlid/

Also put a spacer using card stock in to keep the badge front from the box lid.

Couldn't just leave them un-decorated.

Laser engraved pine clock for a high school fund raising event.

Our son went to high school at Arizona Lutheran Academy in Phoenix, AZ. Each year they hold an annual fund raiser to pay for various projects that support the school campus. This past year, the school updated the gym and replaced the old bleachers. A call went out asking if people would want to make something for this Gala event using the wood from the old bleachers. I volunteered to do something and made this clock, a bottle stopper stand and three bottle stoppers that will be shown in another posting.

The clock movement came from Bear Wood Supply (www.bearwood.com).

The wood is pine from the bleachers for both the clock face and the clock movement enclosure. Finished with a clear coat.

Oops, found a flaw -- can you spot it? It was taken care of in the final wooden design.

I engraved a 7" circular saw blade for my brother with some old tractor patent drawings. This project took place over a number of months beginning in November 2022 and completing in March 2023. The saw blade made a trip to Boise, ID and back because I intended to send him the movement and back piece but wasn't able to finish that until he came back to Tucson to visit in March. This picture shows the final configuration of the clock. He embellished the engraving with silver and then re-painted the hands to match.

The engraving on this saw blade was done with the 455 nm 20 Watt xTool D1 module. I think the 1064 nm module gives better detail, but this engraves more deeply.

The clock movement and hands came from Bear Woods (www.bearwood.com). They have movements made in the USA. Mostly happy with the movement, but the setting mechanism is a bit rough.

Exploring various joinery approaches. This is a piece of MDF core cherry plywood with the laser kerf taken into account in the pin socket design. This is an all-pin box with the front and back inset. The insets make this an all pin box with no open box joints. The result is a very tight box that holds together without glue.

The box is approximately 3.5 inches by 2 inches by 1 1/2 inches tall. Overall desire is to explore the various design options while minimizing the amount of wood consumed.

The Beall Tool logo was included because I am using this exploration to finalize a design for a holder for my Beall collet chuck system to be held on the turning shop French Cleat wall and I thought this would be a cool inclusion with the holder. It will match the logo on the collet set shipping box.