I wanted to put a clock in our master bathroom and I decided to make one as my next project. Then my wife said that we should put the one in the kitchen into our bathroom and then put the new one in the kitchen. That sounded good to me so this is what I'll be working on this time, a clock.

Working With Wood

The clock size be 13 1/2" diameter, almost 2" thick, have five species of wood and will have silent clockworks so it stays quiet. Here I'm cutting some black walnut for part of this new project.
 

Going clockwise from the left is the wood that I'll be using; alder, oak, maple, black walnut and bubinga. My plan is to use alder, oak, maple and black walnut on the face and on the back. And the bubinga will be sandwiched in the middle (red color).
 

Here I'm gluing-up the bubinga and alder. I didn't have any alder wide enough which meant gluing two pieces together. And the bubinga will be in the middle and needs to be large enough to get at least 13.5" out of.
 

This is the order I'll be placing all my pieces for the clock face. However, gluing end grain is not ideal because it won't give me a strong joint. To get around this, I'm going to place the bubinga in the middle and glue all my pieces to it. This way all my glue joints will be face-to-face, which will be very strong. And this red color will be visible on the outside diameter.

You might be thinking, why didn't he use some biscuits between each end grain piece? Well I thought of that, and it would probably work. But then I thought the reddish color might make a nice contrast against the other pieces.
 

I did one side at a time, with this side being the clock face. The smaller pieces of wood that you see are just for clamping and are sacrificial. The metal pieces in the middle are used as clamps because I didn't have any long enough. This was a two day process because the next day I repeated this whole process for the other side.