Clockmaking - How To Make A Clock In The Home Machine Shop - Part 1 - Making The Clock Frames

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as an absorbing masterpiece of craftsmanship, often raised in threads about watches and clockmaking.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Clickspring

Topic

clockmaking and machining

Format

tutorial

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• For those wondering about Clickspring, here is a link: [VIDEO] I advise you not to click on it. It will eat up your time and it takes your complete attention.

• This is lovely! While there's a lot of watch content on YouTube, I'm amazed that no one has called out Clickspring's skeleton clock build. It's also a masterpiece, just in a different medium: Full build playlist: [LINK] Direct link to the first episode: [VIDEO]

• Specifically this playlist where he builds a desk clock in an estimated 1000 hours: [VIDEO] The last video in the series summaries everything in 12 minutes: [LINK]