{"product_id":"walnut-maple-wagon-wheel-clock","title":"Walnut Maple Wagon Wheel Clock","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt carried everything you owned across a thousand miles of nothing. The least you can do is hang it on the wall.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wagon wheel is the original American design object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1840s through the 1870s, hundreds of thousands of families loaded everything they had into a wooden box on four wheels and pointed it west. The wheel that carried them was a precisely engineered thing — a hardwood hub at the center, wooden spokes radiating outward under tension, a continuous rim holding the whole structure together. It was not decorative. Every element existed because it had to. Remove one spoke and the wheel failed. Shorten the rim and the wheel failed. It was honest engineering, and it crossed the continent on that honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis clock was built with that same logic in mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe outer ring and the central hub are solid \u003cstrong\u003eAmerican Black Walnut\u003c\/strong\u003e — dense, dark, authoritative, the wood that has been doing the structural work in American craft since before the Revolution. The ring is continuous, turned true, beveled at its inner edge where the spokes meet it. The hub is a solid walnut disc, small and composed at the center of everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe twelve spokes are \u003cstrong\u003eBird's Eye Maple\u003c\/strong\u003e — pale, luminous, each one shot through with the scattered knot-eyes that make this figure one of the most prized in North American woodworking. They radiate outward from the hub to the rim, crossing the open negative space between them, and that space matters as much as the wood itself. You can see the wall behind them. Light passes through. The clock breathes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ebrass hands\u003c\/strong\u003e sweep from the walnut hub, warm gold against dark brown, marking the hours across open air. At \u003cstrong\u003e18 inches across\u003c\/strong\u003e, this clock doesn't just hang on a wall. It makes a claim about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOuter ring and hub:\u003c\/strong\u003e Solid American Black Walnut\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSpokes:\u003c\/strong\u003e Solid Bird's Eye Maple — 12 spokes, open construction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHands:\u003c\/strong\u003e brass\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDiameter:\u003c\/strong\u003e 18 inches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMovement:\u003c\/strong\u003e Precision quartz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFinish:\u003c\/strong\u003e Natural Finish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHandmade\u003c\/strong\u003e — each clock is one of a kind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwelve spokes. Open air. One unbroken ring. Built like it means it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maple Birch Woodworking Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46345530081451,"sku":"Wal_Map_Wag","price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/9296\/3499\/files\/Wagon-Wheel-Clock.png?v=1774305992","url":"https:\/\/maplebirchstudio.com\/products\/walnut-maple-wagon-wheel-clock","provider":"Maple Birch Woodworking Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}