Step 1:
Gather your materials. Don't spend a fortune on a record, head to a thrift store! I think I spent $1 at Salvation Army. You feel less guilty glueing things to it if you know you never actually planned on listening it; although, if your looking for a particular artist or album, be prepared to spend a little more money.
Grab - as I like to call them - Clock Guts. I purchased mine at Michael's. The kit I purchased didn't cost much at all and it came with the movement gear as well as hands for the clock. Michaels also sells individual hands and numbers. I ended up buying seperate hands because the ones that originally came with the kit where too small for my liking.
Grab - as I like to call them - Clock Guts. I purchased mine at Michael's. The kit I purchased didn't cost much at all and it came with the movement gear as well as hands for the clock. Michaels also sells individual hands and numbers. I ended up buying seperate hands because the ones that originally came with the kit where too small for my liking.
Step 2:
Grab your guitar picks (I used two colors). I stopped at Guitar Center for mine, but you can grab them at any music or instrument store, or even online. Use the gorilla glue to attach these! I like gorilla glue because you only need a little dab and that sh*t sticks like no bodies business, the downside is, you only get one chance. I suppose you could use hot-glue, but that sometimes gets too messy for my liking, (you get the little stringies) and I wanted to make sure these babies never came off. Make sure before you glue you measure the spacing perfectly (or as perfect as humanly possible). You don't want an off kilter clock. (Unless, of course, you do. Think Salvador Dali!)
Feel free to skip this step if you going for a minimalist look, or pick up actual numbers at Michael's if that's the look your going for!
Feel free to skip this step if you going for a minimalist look, or pick up actual numbers at Michael's if that's the look your going for!
Step 3:
Take the clock guts and assemble the clock. Basically you shove the base through and then screw the hands on top. A word of advice: The post on the clock-gut base may be a little to big to fit through the center of the record (this was the case with mine!) Just grab a file or a tiny sander (or in my case - whatever my dad had available) and file it down - slightly. You shouldn't have to remove to much to fit it in (that's what she said!)