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The first this I did was to drill a hole in the mirror. I use a diamond core drill and water as a lubricant. I use a drill press and go slowly.   The reason I do this first is because there is a risk of cracking and once that is over, the rest is plain sailing.  First I scrape the paint in a rectangle border off the mirror.

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Then, to remove the actual mirror material. I use nitric acid, which dissolves the silver stuff.



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Then I glued the body of the clock onto the face using silicone glue.
Later, I added some more etched designs on to the face.
In retrospect. It would have been smarter to etch the designs first to the face before gluing the body on.

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Here is a later picture of the inner etched part also using nitric acid.


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I added the front stained glass face to the clock.

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Then I played around with various lengths of glass rod for the face.

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I added the sides, which I made of off cuts of stained glass I had from other projects.

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Eventually I settled for the glass rods in this configuration.

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The back of the clock. The glass rods are glued on using silicone,
Two fluorescent tubes provide the light.

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The light fitting bracket.

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The colored glass rods are held in place using silicone.

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Then I added a copper face that I had cut various 'arty' holes in.

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I put some red glass behind the clock face and also attached the clock mechanism to it.

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The bars that the clock hangs from.
They are attached to the inner glass box that was first made.

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The finished clock.

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                                                                                                         Hanging in my workshop after ten years.


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