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This is the desk-stand version of the gear clocks I make. Everything, the gears, the dials and the wooden axles are laser-cut from 4mm walnut plywood and wooden rods on a 10W laser. The parts are hand sanded and polished with bee wax.
The dial hands are colored with a chrome marker.
Drawn in Illustrator, cut through LightBurn.
The video is the whole build, from flat parts to a clock that runs. It's powered by a normal quartz movement, so keeping the friction low enough for the gears to turn was the tricky part.
Happy to talk through any of the build or the laser settings.

A wall-mounted version of the gear clocks I've been making. It's all walnut — the gears, the face and even the axles are laser-cut from 4mm walnut plywood and wooden rods on a 10W laser. Designed in Illustrator, cut through LightBurn.

The video is the full assembly. It runs on a normal quartz movement, so the gear train has to turn on very little torque — getting the wooden axles to spin freely enough was the fiddly part.

Happy to answer anything about the build.

The gears, the Fibonacci dials and the axles are all laser-cut from 4mm walnut plywood on a 10W laser. Designed in Illustrator, cut through LightBurn.

It runs on a single quartz movement — the same kind as a normal wall clock — so the whole gear train has to turn on very little torque. Getting the friction low enough was the hardest part.

In the video I'm turning the gears by hand. Adding two photos of the flat parts before assembly.

I've been making these Fibonacci gear clocks and I'm stuck choosing a shape. The one on the left is my original design, the one on the right is the new version.

Please try to ignore the wood colour and grain — one's walnut, one's oak — I only care about the shape/silhouette here. Which one reads better to you: left, right, or both? And why?

Both work the same way, I just can't decide which form to keep — or whether to just offer both.

A gear clock I designed and built, based on a steampunk style.Everything is cut from 4mm walnut plywood on a 10W laser. The wooden axles and the housing parts are all cut and engraved the same way. I designed it in Illustrator and LightBurn.

It's driven by a small quartz movement, so battery life is the same as a normal wall clock. You can watch the lower gears slowly turning, and at the end of the video there's a 1-hour timelapse showing it run.

The hardest part was getting the friction between the gears low enough. A quartz movement doesn't have much torque, so any resistance stops it.

Made this little lantern out of 4mm walnut plywood, all cut on my 10W laser. When it's on, the cutouts throw moving shadows across the wall.

I wired the electronics myself with some metal tubes and wires. Used 2 transistors and a phototransistor so the LED only switches on when it gets dark, and the kinetic part keeps turning 24/7. Runs on 2 AA batteries that last about 3–4 months.

The video is the full build. Getting the casing right took way more tries than I expected.