A friend of mine over in another country had been making some lovely resin clocks for a while on MDF and, as I would not be impinging on her market at all, I thought I would try making one on an LP as I had a bunch of old records hanging around and I thought there were some that I would be unlikely to listen to again!

I was just going to do a standard swipe on the record and it had been hanging around my studio for a while waiting, but then I got hold of a record player that was going to end up on the tip as it wasn’t working properly so I had the idea to do the clock as a swipe on the record player and see how it would turn out.

Obviously I had to do a video of this which is shown below. My only problem is that I swiped with my arm right in front of the camera so that you can’t really see the swipe itself! Doh!

The record with paint on is a bit flimsy in itself. I added a coating of resin which looked really good and it was just about stable enough not to bend.

Choosing a clock mechanism was a bit tricky as there are different lengths of spindle and hands but I eventually chose one with 11.5cm hands and a medium length spindle. The only problem with it though was that it didn’t have a hook on the mechanism to hang the clock on the wall so I had to superglue one on. So next time I will look for a slightly different one.

Anyway, I only finished the clock the morning of a big outdoor fair that I was taking part in (as I had returned from holiday late the night before) and immediately got a lot of interest in it. In fact it was the first thing to sell on my stand so I quickly took a picture of it finished before it went off to its new home.

I will be doing more clocks as it seemed popular and I have more records sitting around!