Making sure the analog clock doesn’t become a lost art

MERCER COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — Before mobile telephones and intelligent watches took around, understanding how to convey to time from an analog clock was really much a required survival resource.

Now, all we have to do is glimpse at the digital clock on our phones. The traditional clock facial area is not totally out of model. In actuality, a Harrodsburg guy is performing to make positive we don’t totally get rid of track of time.

“I am constantly seeking at my view,” claimed Keith Chambers, owner of Woodwerks. “I guess I have a lousy point about that.”

Chambers helps make handmade clocks from Kentucky wood.

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“It was a passion mainly because I created things for my daughter,” he stated. “I received the massive idea, I’m heading to make picket gear clocks and I’m heading to offer them.”

Chambers states he watched corporations downsize in the 2000s.

“I obtained laid off in 2011,” he stated. “They were being down to 11 staff.”

At the time, relatives grew older. He took care of them. He spent hours, minutes, and seconds in his shop, practically around the clock, making ready for art shows in close proximity to and far.

“Shaker Village, I have done it for about two years,” he claimed. “A large clearly show all-around this spot is Woodland Artwork Reasonable.”

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“I like accomplishing outdoor displays,” he additional. “But the temperature has been sort of tough to deal with currently.”

From time to time we just want to pause time and go back to much less expensive times, a environment with out a pandemic, and additional peace. Chambers states the demonstrate should go on.

“Ideal now I’m undertaking about 7 demonstrates,” he claimed.

On the other hand, as far as what’s to arrive, he knows only time will explain to.

“Heading forward, I am going to in all probability only do 3 or 4 reveals a yr,” Chambers reported. “Yeah, I am going to perform out here until eventually I drop. As the old saying goes.”

Chambers says he is on the lookout ahead to reveals at the Shaker Village Art Reasonable and the Woodland Artwork Honest coming up in the future couple weeks.