Wardy wrote a post on his blog detailing his ornamental clock build:
I wanted to use my new Adafruit Neopixel Ring to build an ornamental clock, using this interesting woodworking technique. Plus I figured that my milling machine might make this a feasible prospect.
Milling, in my very limited self-taught experience, is best done using a material that is of a consistent density. Wood, (again in my very limited self-taught experience) isn’t consistent in it’s density. Softwood especially. So I turned to the densest wood I could get my hands on and assumed that it would simply behave like a very soft version of aluminium. Here’s the aggravatingly cursory build log…