I Built an Entire Clock Mechanism to Prove this is Possible

Negative pigeon space is the most Terry Pratchet sounding term I've heard all week

I love the evolution of "Can I make a gear with pigeon heads as teeth?" to "Oops, I accidentally made a clock"

This is like watching Clicksprings, but from a parallel universe.

6:30 "Let's not forget the hand of the clock which, obviously, is going to be a leg" Dammit Uri. I love you so much.

It is accurate! It clearly shows how fast time flies in the shop! Best video I've seen all month (or probably longer).

"I'm not a watch maker" ?. You make us watch!. Your videos are compelling.

Finally, a metric clock! Great work!

"I promise I'm not high" had me dead

I wish I was rich enough to have Uri build me odd mechanisms for a curiosity cabinet and see people struggle to work out the meaning / purpose of them all.

Funnily enough, 45 seconds is the amount of time you typically wait when blooming a pour over coffee. So essentially you've made a bloom clock! Congrats!

There was a website long ago called Gary's Wooden Clocks. It said that since clocks only rotate in one direction, only one surface of each gear tooth actually matters. Make the back of the pigeon head follow an accurate gear tooth profile. The other gear tooth surface can contain the pigeon's beak. The gear should operate as accurately as a traditional involute gear in one direction. You have to flip over all the gears that rotate counter-clockwise.

Great, the Monty Python of metal work 😀

This is without a doubt one of the nicer pigeon-themed clocks ive seen.

This is definitely the best video on YouTube about using pigeon-shaped gears in approximately a clock.

This could totally be a timer. The coolest timer ever. Forget cube timers now we have pigeon timers.

As a watchmaker who built several clocks I can say, this is really great work!

It's nice watching an original genius at work. You read the books and immediately threw them all out.

I just love the thickness of Uri materials. I'm going to make a delicate clock mechanism - and he whips out a piece of sea going brass a half inch thick! Truly a work of mechanical art as usual. Does it work? Yes it does. Does it have a purpose? Not in this universe ...

I love that it counts 10 amounts of time 😆

Met Uri at Maker Central last weekend. My meds were kicking my brains out my ears and I just gushed about loving his work and how it made me use more brass. He asked what projects, and for some reason I just stared and said "knives" in an unintentionally sinister moment of brain-fog (I do make other things I swear!). I went to leave before Uri called for security, but he stopped me and handed me a handmade paper postcard with a drawing of a pigeon he made. Everything Uri does is part of a wonderfully absurd world, and this clock is a perfect example of that.