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.
Then, to remove the actual mirror material. I use nitric acid, which dissolves the silver stuff.
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.
Here is a later picture of the inner etched part also using nitric acid.
I added the front stained glass face to the clock.
Then I played around with various lengths of glass rod for the face.
I added the sides, which I made of off cuts of stained glass I had from other projects.
Eventually I settled for the glass rods in this configuration.
The back of the clock. The glass rods are glued on using silicone,
Two fluorescent tubes provide the light.
The light fitting bracket.
The colored glass rods are held in place using silicone.
Then I added a copper face that I had cut various 'arty' holes in.
I put some red glass behind the clock face and also attached the clock mechanism to it.
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.
Hanging in my workshop after ten years.
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