Hi Steve, The plan is to mount this to a piece of marine plywood. The line for the weight will still go straight down and any type of small pulley that will change the direction of the line will be hard mounted to this marine plywood. I have attached one picture of inside this studio (there is 8 total bicycle driven industrial sewing machines each for a designed purpose in making a process for jeans/shorts/workpants. There is also a couple treadle, a hand crank machine, a foot operated kick press, and a lever operated heavy duty sewer (Cowboy Outlaw machine). Basically the board will hide the inverter aircon as it kind of takes away from the human powered theme and I only use it when all the solar panels are powering it...fans are on 4 inch swivels so work fine enough when it is evening. The location for the moon phase clock will be just above the "foot power" painted logo and the pendulum will be right about at the top of this logo. This is why the weight will be diverted with pulley mounted to the board that visually hides the inverter aircon. Your moon clock design will fit in perfectly with the theme of the studio (besides being a bit steampunk it is also a great way to get exercise and stay healthy) Kind regards, Mike

A bit longer than I thought, but it work perfectly See this clock at: https://youtube.com/shorts/CFAGFqF7v50?si=CMbGtPUgYk03_HvF

Hi Steve, I have printed your moon phase clock and it runs well except the beat on the tick pallet bounces on the escapement. it sort of goes tick-tick -tock. Please see a short video of the clock going you will see the bounce on the tick, is there a way to stop this it has 10lb, 9 oz of weight driving the clock. Thanks Robin

I cannot overstate the quality of both this model and the provided assembly and theory documentation. There are so many small, well thought out details in the models that make assembly a breeze- Well done, Steve! I printed in PLA with a few tweaks- the hands, face, and moon have a few layers of glow-in-the-dark filament (the photo is a long exposure, it isn't actually particularly bright unless you're in a VERY dark room). I also added a "cookie" of blue filament under the globes to give some contrast. I've also go the bouncing escapement issue, but I haven't spent a lot of time debugging yet- the clock still runs fine and is keeping good time so far!

My incarnation of Steve's clock design. I painted the gears and frame. I love it!

I really enjoyed putting this thing together and see it spring to life. Truly a great design and the manual made things so much easier. Thanks Steve!

Really great clock that keeps accurate time.

I love my clock, the sound is amazing. The movement is fantastic. Imgur link of the movement and sound below! My only issue is that right now it takes me around 24lbs to get a nice constant movement.... https://imgur.com/a/BOXOIdo

Finished assembling the SP14. Impressive size, super quiet and works perfectly at just 2kg. On to the next watch, the SP10!

Printed on the Elegoo Centauri Carbon. Filaments used: Elegoo Marble White, Geeetech Black, Amolen Rosewood, CC3D Antique Gold, CC3D Copper, CC3D Deep Cyan, CC3D Silver Blue. The gold field on the dial was separated out into a 3 layer veneer which was printed on a holographic bed plate using Archimedian Curves bottom layer pattern and then popped in place. This gives it a greater sheen and multicolored stars at certain viewing angles. I added some flare to the pendulum bob. The Centauri produced gears that have very low friction. My clock only needed 6 lbs to run. The clock is very accurate after some minor adjustment of the pendulum length using the threads and lock nuts. I used Steve's parts kit from Etsy and he even demonstrated a great amount of patience with me when I mistakenly thought that my kit didn't include springs (they are slid onto the arbors and look like drill bits. ☺️) Wonderful design!