WOODEN.CITY Vintage Wooden Clock Kit, 3D Puzzle for Adults

Easy to assemble and have great quality. It is a great value for the price and i love look at it on my wall

Very unique item. A bit challenging to build. Many reviews illustrated the clock does not run. Mine does. Perfectly. Tips. MEASURE with included tool everything called for. Lightly sand all gears. Peaks and valleys. Although not called for in the instructions, LIGHTLY sand and wax all gear axles. This way, even after assembly you can move gears for best alignment after assembly without taking the whole damn thing apart. THIS was a life saver. CRITICAL but not illustrated in the included instructions. If you're someone who has a plan to do a marathon all day build. You will likely fail to have an operational clock. Take your time. A few minutes a day. Building is the most relaxing part. Double check all your measurements. Use plenty of wax. Burnish into the gear teeth or any wood contacting wood moving parts. A little tweaking was required after assembly. My clock has been running 3 days. It's four minutes fast in 3 days. I'm Still adjusting for speed with the pendulum to fine tune. If you're un familiar with gears and how they work. This probably isn't for you. Trouble shooting will be required. Loved the challenge. The clock looks and works amazing. I dare you to find a clock like this ready to run anywhere. These haven't been made for centuries. You need to build it to own one. Five stars for sure. The video attached was a few hours after assembly. The clock hour hand not adjusted. Just running for functionality.

This was a really good and fun kit to build. It runs very quiet and it very easy to wind up compared to other wood puzzle pendulum clocks. I also really like how compact it is. There were 2 issues. 1. The axle holes in most the gears were not drilled straight. I had to fix them by drilling with a drill guide and use glue on the axles to make the gears true and perpendicular to the plane of the gear. 2. There was quite a bit of black mold in spots on most the boards. Being that this is a new model it makes one wonder how much they care about using good quality, non-moldy wood. If there was no black mold, this would be easily 5 stars. If there was just a little black mold, I probably would have still given 5 stars. But there was enough to make it frustrating to ensure it is all properly treated and exterminated.

I love the challenges posed by the designers and manufacturers of wooden mechanical kits, but my favorite is clock kits. The clock kits are so unforgiving that one has to be meticulous every step of the way to make them work as intended. Friction is the worst enemy of clock-making. While the axles for this kit are made of wood, having pre-installed metal bearings in crucial gears helps significantly in this matter. I also liked the complexity of the design, with nine gears in total. The fit is tighter than other kits, but it means a sturdier structure. I used small pliers to help push in the pieces. The instruction is so tiny that I had to use a magnifying glass to see the diagrams. But it didn't bother me as I view decyphering the pictorial instructions - however big or small, clear or vague - as a part of the challenge. This is a working clock that keeps the time relatively accurate. My only reservation is its short running time of about eight hours. I think I will modify it later to double the running time. I enjoyed working on it, but it is a plain clock with no added features. I hope that the designers will consider adding complication features for future releases.

I can’t even begin to tell you strongly enough, DO NOT BUY THIS CLOCK! I’ve put together multiple difficult puzzles like the Galaxy Marble Run and the Dragon Castle and this one is damn near impossible to put together. The instructions are tiny and impossible to understand. Some parts just fall out of the boards while others break trying to get them out. The parts were not where the instructions had them pictured. The parts are very difficult to get in, requiring a hammer on some while others would just fall out. I am returning mine but don’t know if they’ll give me a refund since there is no possible way to get it back in the “box” it comes in. As a veteran to these types of puzzles, I’ve never seen such a disaster and I really wanted to build this clock. I think I will just stick with Wood Trick puzzles from now on!

Building this clock is an excellent project for learning and understanding mechanical clock movements. It does come with challenges, so patience is important. Apply wax to the gears and shafts where needed, and measure each shaft placement carefully. Some components may press in tightly; if anything feels excessively difficult, stop and check for a burr or a misalignment. I used a small watchmaker’s hammer a few times in a very controlled manner.At first, the clock may only run for a few minutes at a time. It can stop occasionally until the wax settles in. Make sure the gears are aligned properly. Overall, the build is easier than installing a cap jewel on a small mechanical watch, but it still offers a meaningful challenge.Aligning the plate with all the gears and shafts was the most demanding part. It can feel overwhelming at first, but working slowly from one side to the other—bringing each gear close, then pressing the assembly together bit by bit—eventually brings everything into position. Even with watchmaking experience, that step required patience.For weight, I used 1 pound 4 ounces by filling a can with BBS. If you enjoy building things, this project is very rewarding, and I can get mine to keep time intermittently. There are plenty of adjustments you can experiment with to improve performance.

Fun clock to build. Looks great. I also have the steam punk clock from wooden city but after about a year the holes the axles fit in started getting deformed and it stopped working. This one looks so much better and works like a charm. W wooden model clock from any of the manufacturers, this is not a beginners kit. Clocks are pretty unforgiving. They need to be sanded correctly. The gears need to be spaced properly on their axles. They need to be waxed way more than the instructions show. Basically if any moving parts touch in any way shape of form they need to be sanded smooth and waxed or it wont work. The final assembly is a real challenge. So take your time and enjoy it. The instructions are adequate. Just pay attention to every thing.. Especially where it says to space the gears on the axles. They give you a measuring tool. Make sure you do exactly what it says. So over all well worth the money in my book. Hope this review heps some one.

Great build

È stato un regalo e a quanto riportato molto apprezzato e gradito

My husband and I love spending an evening making these wooden models, even though we are in our 30s! They are often more complicated than you may expect, so can take longer to put together than the suggested time and I think are more difficult to build than for the suggested age. This model is particularly good value for money, really good quality, works as it says it should, great design which is exactly as in the photos.

Stupendo!!!! è complicato ma il risultato è entusiasmante .Attenzione con un peso di mezzo chilo come consigliato non riesce a vincere l'attrito , occorre almeno un chilo di peso , e va che è una meraviglia .... Certo non lo userei per vedere l'ora per un appuntamento o per guardare l'ora la mattina per andare al lavoro , ma il suo effetto lo fa.....

Eine sehr ansprechende und anspruchsvolle Uhr. Die Aufbauanleitung könnte etwas genauer sein und es ist ratsam besser zweimal hinzuschauen. Wie in den anderen Rezensionen blieb sie auch bei mir alle halbe Stunde stehen. Das Problem lag einfach daran,das ein Zahnrad in der höhe fünf nach zwölf,zehn nach zwölf noch richtig ausgerichtet war.Sie läuft jetzt schon seit zwei Tagen ohne Unterbrechung.Natürlich mit regelmäßigen aufziehen.Ok von der Genauigkeit der Zeitangaben sollte man nicht zu viel verlangen

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