Random thought for the day

[Gwolf]

Whats new? Just finished putting the custom made bronze handle on my blade blank. Little bit heavy, but feels like a roll of dimes in your hand and the blade is razor sharp. Still needs more cleaning up and some polishing. No belt case yet, but that will also be custom made.​

 

[Gwolf]

Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band​

 

[Bfromla]

XI types of people? Amazing! Last physical exam one of the nurses wanted me to take a cognitive test. I told her I wasn't gonna take it, because I was only 75 and that was for old people. She said my doctor ordered it. She brought me a sheet of paper with a circle on it drawn with a compass. She told me to make it an analog clock face showing my appointment time. I told her that was stupid test because digital clocks had not even been invented when I learned how to tell time. She said just finish the clock face with all the numerals and the clock hands in the correct place. I put roman numerals on the clock. She came back, looked at it and didn't know what it was. She took it to the head nurse and I guess the head nurse explained that long ago a lot of the big wall clocks had roman numerals on the face.

Young nurse came back and said I would have to take the test again next appointment. I told her I would, but I was putting the numbers on it in Kanji. The next appointment she did not ask me to do another stupid clock face.

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Totally agree & course few alternatives:






Supposed to be 3 clocks all thumbnails, whatever reason preview shows doubles¿ sorry
**thank you editor MOD**

 

[Bfromla]

Notice anything odd on this 1?

 

[Gwolf]

Binary Wall Clock, and since the prime meridian appears to be approximately
dead center of the clock face, it would (of course) be set to Zulu Time (GMT/UTC).

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[RapidSpyder]

 

[Cobranut]

View attachment 251958 Notice anything odd on this 1?

Looks like the hands are misaligned.

 

[BamaJohn]

Whats new? Just finished putting the custom made bronze handle on my blade blank. Little bit heavy, but feels like a roll of dimes in your hand and the blade is razor sharp. Still needs more cleaning up and some polishing. No belt case yet, but that will also be custom made.​

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An old foot peg?

 

[Bfromla]

Looks like the hands are misaligned.

Are you sure not confusing the central frame & supports? Hint: Maybe so minor the mind sees but works past it.

 

[Cobranut]

Are you sure not confusing the central frame & supports? Hint: Maybe so minor the mind sees but works past it.

No. It looks like the hour and minute hands are not co-ordinated. The hour hand is too close to the 6 o'clock position in relation to the minute hand.

 

[BCNewell]

Well - appears to be upside down. The picture is. Looks to be mounted on the wall above a plant. Which means the clock is upside down on that wall.

 

[Gwolf]

An old foot peg?

Not a foot peg. I machined it from a piece of bronze rod. It may have been about 7/8 diameter to start with. Chucked it up with a support about 4 inches from the free end and center bored the free end to take a tail stock live center. Took out the center support and put the tail stock on. Turned about 5 inches of the bronze rod down to just slightly more than the diameter needed to cover the blade tang. Ran knurling wheels over the turned down part of the rod maybe 6 or 7 passes until it had a fairly deep knurl pattern. Switched to carbide tool and put some rings around the knurled part trying to miss being aligned with the 1/8 pin holes in the blade handle tang. Then moved the tail stock back out and put the center support back in. Cleaned up the end with center drilling and cut the knurled handle off with a parting tool.

I split the knurled handle down the center and milled each side to match the width of the blade handle tang. Got a good fit and went over all the fitting areas with a small side grinder very lightly, just enough to rough it up for the epoxy to grip. Drilled the handle pieces to match the pin holes in the handle tang. Cleaned it all up with alcohol and used clear Dupont 2000 pound waterproof epoxy to put it all back with the pins installed and left it clamped in a vise between some pieces of board for 2 days to let the epoxy cure. After that I just bradded the pin ends and cleaned up the epoxy that got on the wrong places.

It looks a little like a foot peg from the side, but it two split halves fastened on the sides of a full handle tang. It is much smaller than foot peg size. It is not round, but more flattened arcs to match the handle tang. Blade was already roughed out and tempered. Now it all just needs some more cleaning up and some final polishing. I have cleaned up the cutting end of the blade and put the final bevels on the edges. A few passes on a table top small belt sander and a little work with ceramic rod, and now it will shave. It is still fairly heavy, but not near as heavy as a foot peg. It is closer to the size of a slightly flatted out roll of nickles. It is not a large knife. Slightly less than 8 inches total length.

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[canamjhb]

View attachment 251958 Notice anything odd on this 1?

The bottom numerals are upside down. A Roman numeral clock was the only clock in my bedroom when I was growing up and I was taught to tell time by it.

 

[Bfromla]

The bottom numerals are upside down....... A Roman numeral clock was the only clock in my bedroom when I was growing up and I was taught to tell time by it.

not just the bottom & maybe was just a blond welder “the ^ is pointing up, not a V”

 

[Peter Aawen]

The bottom numerals are upside down. A Roman numeral clock was the only clock in my bedroom when I was growing up and I was taught to tell time by it.

not just the bottom & maybe was just a blond welder “the ^ is pointing up, not a V”

Ahh, it all depends on how you look at it!! I reckon that relative to the centre of the clock looking out, they're all up the right way!

Altho thinking about it, it could be that the I, II, & III are upside down - I'm just not sure about them?!

 

[Gwolf]

Stroker Ace Opening Theme - Charlie Daniels Band​

 

[Gwolf]

Ahh, it all depends on how you look at it!! I reckon that relative to the centre of the clock looking out, they're all up the right way!

Altho thinking about it, it could be that the I, II, & III are upside down - I'm just not sure about them?!

It is possible the 'X' is also upside down.

 

[Bfromla]

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Stroker Ace Opening Theme - Charlie Daniels Band​

 

[Gwolf]

No. It looks like the hour and minute hands are not co-ordinated. The hour hand is too close to the 6 o'clock position in relation to the minute hand.

If it is actually a clock, the hands would have to mounted wrong to be out of synchronization like that. If it is only a decorative piece to hang in a window that reflects light, then the hands being out of synchronization could be intentional, and used as a pattern reminder for the person who built the decorative window spinner. Where the hands are actually pointing may be the combination to a combination lock on the desk in front of the window, or even an anniversary date, birth date, or any number of things. A person whose mind sees patterns in things would use such a clock with the hands out of sync to be reminded of some number or date. Where they are set could be translated as June 23, or maybe 0623, or whatever the person who built it wants it to mean. I have done such things. Who would think to look where the hands of a decorative clock hanging in the window behind the desk are to see the combination to a file drawer in the desk? The person wanting to snoop in the file drawer would be trying birthdays or anniversary dates, when the real combination is on a clock right behind their heads. Another possibility is that it means nothing at all, and the hands were just soldered in that position by chance.

 

[Bfromla]

Sorry, I honestly don’t know. It was a screen shot from a random YouTube - Feb last year. Probably had a funny conversation about appointments; clocks; time in general; & it happened to catch my eye.
I do have small album dedicated for such - some funny, some interesting. Hopefully you're keeping up with the random thoughts...