Fly Fish with Mel: In Case of Emergency, BREAK GLASS!

It's Fishing Time. Literally

Finished my clock 2 days ago. Finished waxing the frame and pieced everything together.

Brought it down to show the guys at Coho(That's the tackle shop; or more like a clubhouse cum watering hole, we hang out at). Most of them liked it while many of them questioned me on how I did the 3 flies on the glass. Unfortunately, there hasn't been another commissioning for a similar one.

Well, the design will be changed a little if I do the next one but I think I would like to make one that is totally out of cork.

So here are a few pictures of the clock for you to decide if you like it or not. Comments are welcomed.








The Back and the Clock Mechanism






The 3 Glass Flies

Fly Fish with Mel: Immortalized Flies

Flies on Glass

No fishing again so it's back to craftwork.

Just found a couple of glass beakers I bought from Ikea.
Using diamond-tipped bits for my Minicraft rotary tool, I tried my hand at engraving a fly, a Royal Coachman, on the beaker.

And after a few apprehensive minutes, I started to get a hang of controlling the whirrring tool. With each grinding stroke, I gained confidence and line by line, the fly started to materialize on the once empty glass.


This is end result, with the Royal Coachman immortalized on the glass.