Manzanita clocks

[fwharris]

My insurance agent has a KOA campground in California and brought back some manzanita burl/root and sliced it up with his chain saw then called me to see if I could make him some clocks for their store at the camp site.

I used a 3" fosrtner bit to bore out the pocket for the clock works. Long process doing this as it is a hard wood and it took very little time for the bit to heat up.

Pocket depths ranged form 3/4" to 3". For the big thick clock (almost 4" thick) that I saved for the last one to do, I did about 1/2" with the fosrtner bit and then changed over to a router with a straight bit. It took me about an hour this way vs what I figured would have been several hours the other way.

Finish coat is several coats of clear lacquer spray.

And NOPE none of the work was done on the CW..

More photos in my gallery http://forum.carvewright.com/album.php?albumid=201

[jaroot]

Neat looking clocks and pretty neat looking wood.

[LittleRedWoodshop]

Awesome work Floyd ... very nicely done.

[liquidguitars]

Nice job Floyd cool wood!

[fwharris]

I do really like how the wood looks. He was talking about what stain to use and after spraying a small spot with the lacquer conversation was done. He did go through 3 chain saw blades slicing it up. A few pieces did have some rocks embedded into them. The slabs were also not uniform in thickness. A deep throat ban saw would have been best to slice it up. He is very luck not to have lost a foot...

When he picked up the 7 I had done he brought 4 more small pieces and I still have the top slice off of the big slab to figure out a clock on. The back side still has a lot of the root showing, very uneven, so I'm considering just doing a small insert of the front side instead of figuring out how to bore out the back. It is also better that 4" thick.

[eelamb]

Floyd nice work on the clocks. I have three logs of that wood about 3' in length and 8" dia. you just gave me an idea as to what to make with them. Thanks

[geekviking]

Those are awesome!
I love manzanita, i've never seen a photo show the true beauty of that species...
Nice work!

[easybuilt]

Beautiful clocks Floyd!
I have always loved that wood. Looks like the wood is the art in it's self.

[jpaluck]

Awsome looking floyd love the wood

[GrammaPam]

After recent problem with wood moisture, I wonder what the moisture content of manzinita would be. Thank you for sharing the great pictures. Beautiful work.
G.P.