Time Tower Objet d'Art is a light clock, that I built using flat metal fabrication and lost wax spin casting.
This projects leans towards the Steampunk genre.
Made out of silver, brass and copper and titanium.
On reflection , time encapsulate both the fleeting and the eternal aspects of existence.
The basic frame made out of 6 mm brass stock and 1 mm flat sheet. I soldered in the base where all the gears are going to be mounted.
I had an old printer, so I puled all the gears out and molded them in the same way. Then I made them into a gear train that is mounted into the tower itself.
I cut a nice piece of cherry wood and I experiment with different light bulbs.
Also, messing around with various face designs. Eventually I went for a titanium back ground and a copper background.
I carved all the decorative components such as the feet for the wooden base. Then I made molds and injected waxes and spin cast them into brass.
They actually turn very smoothly, what for being cast.
The doors and side panels consist of three layers , a copper cut-out wedged between brass cut-outs. Screws with copper caps follow the steampunk theme.
Here the panels and hinged doors are installed in the brass frame.
The brass gears visible behind brass framed glass doors.
The hinged glass doors open by lifting the silver latch to reveal the brass gears.
I mounted a dimmer switch in the top. It is a click switch. Here the electrical wires are still visible.
Details of the brass tubing feed. The dimmer switch goes to each light.
The polished brass conduit for the electrical wires.
Detailed texture on the lightbulb base.
Some of the various sections after polishing.
Steampunk details on the clock.
Both side clock faces have copper backgrounds.
The front clock face with a heat blued titanium back ground.
