Driving home I spotted some ex display flooring up against the wall outside a flooring centre. Obviously these were destined for the skip. I can't resist having a look at free timber! So I pulled over and noticed some solid OAK flooring made up into a square that must have been on display in the shop in the past and was now just thrown away!!!
I got it home (even though my son was telling me to stop picking up rubbish as he called it... Oak...? Rubbish...? He'll learn one day.
I had the workings of a clock at home that I had bought on eBay, so I decided I'd make a clock with it, as I'd made one a few weeks earlier out of pallet wood that wasn't all that pretty....
I had to prepare the timber by seperating it, removing the blobs of white silicone that had been keeping them tighter with a scraper, then I needed to remove the dark Oak stain and varnish as it was high quality flooring, so it had a good quality hard wearing finish on it.
A few cuts on my table saw in the garden, to get two pieces, one for the base and another for the face, cut at 15 degrees then joined just with glue, then quite a while sanding got a lovely finish on the oak. It was originally a very dark brown from the finish it had as flooring, but now it was a really nice light colour, and beautifully smooth. I drilled the center hole and counter sank it to fit the clock workings and finished it with a light covering is Danish oil.
The entire cost was £2.00 for the clock mechanism.
I'm pleased with it.
