#503

$349.00

This is an especially neat piece! I particularly love the darker grey streak that runs at a diagonal through the top. The rest of this 7.5 × 8.5 stone is a light grey speckled with lighter and darker patterns. A 2 & 1/4” “peak-a-boo” hole through the bottom exposes a copper plated pendulum bob, swinging back and forth which gives this clock a lot of visual interest. Copper electroplated roman numerals at 12, 3, 6 and 9 and a copper bonsai tree grows across the right bottom corner while the pendulum hole and number 3 peak through the leaves. This was an experiment in “electroplating”. Electroplating is a process in which a thin layer of one metal, in this case copper, is deposited onto the surface of another metal or conductive surface, usually through the use of an electric current. The process of electroplating is complicated and involves some nasty chemicals, so after doing a few things with it, I moved on to other process, but this clock is the apex of those experiments. All of the copper is treated with a blue/green patina.

This is an especially neat piece! I particularly love the darker grey streak that runs at a diagonal through the top. The rest of this 7.5 × 8.5 stone is a light grey speckled with lighter and darker patterns. A 2 & 1/4” “peak-a-boo” hole through the bottom exposes a copper plated pendulum bob, swinging back and forth which gives this clock a lot of visual interest. Copper electroplated roman numerals at 12, 3, 6 and 9 and a copper bonsai tree grows across the right bottom corner while the pendulum hole and number 3 peak through the leaves. This was an experiment in “electroplating”. Electroplating is a process in which a thin layer of one metal, in this case copper, is deposited onto the surface of another metal or conductive surface, usually through the use of an electric current. The process of electroplating is complicated and involves some nasty chemicals, so after doing a few things with it, I moved on to other process, but this clock is the apex of those experiments. All of the copper is treated with a blue/green patina.