Easy-to-Make Wooden Sundials

Easy-to-Make Wooden Sundials is a practical digital guide to building five wooden sundial projects. This PDF includes clear instructions, plans, illustrations, and project templates for instant download.

Milton Stoneman explains the basic principles of sundials before moving into hands-on construction. The projects are designed to make sundial building accessible without requiring advanced calculations or specialist equipment.

The book includes measurements for four approximate latitudes and guidance for adapting materials, shapes, finishes, and decorative details.

Book Overview

This English-language craft book combines an introduction to sundial history and gnomonics with practical woodworking instructions. It covers five projects: a horizontal sundial, vertical sundial, folding equatorial sundial, diptych sundial, and bowstring equatorial sundial.

The opening material explains how sundials measure local solar time and how the gnomon casts the shadow used to read the hour. Later sections address materials, tools, template transfer, hour lines, construction methods, corrections, selected cities, notes, and additional reading.

The templates provide measurements for approximately 25°, 32°, 40°, and 45° latitudes. The book also offers suggestions for designing a pocket sundial and adapting the projects for different materials and decorative forms.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• An introduction to sundial principles and gnomonics.
• Materials and tools for planning and building wooden sundials.
• Instructions and plans for five sundial projects.
• Guidance for selecting templates according to approximate latitude.
• Methods for transferring dial faces and hour lines to wood.
• Suggestions for designing a pocket sundial and correcting a completed sundial.
• Templates, a selected-cities list, notes, and additional reading.

Why This Book Matters

Easy-to-Make Wooden Sundials connects practical craft with the long history of solar timekeeping. Its introduction describes sundials as direct reminders of time measured through the positions of heavenly bodies.

The book also preserves a hands-on approach to making functional and decorative objects. By combining templates, latitude-based measurements, and woodworking guidance, it presents sundial construction as an accessible craft activity.

Book Details

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This is a digital download with no physical shipping. Access is available after purchase, and the PDF can be opened with an appropriate Kindle app, tablet, desktop computer, mobile device, or reading app that supports PDF files.

Use a current PDF reader for the best viewing of the illustrations, plans, and templates. Display results may vary by device and application.

FAQ

When can I access the book?
Access is available after purchase as an instant digital download.

Will I receive a physical copy?
No. This product is a digital PDF, so no physical copy is shipped.

Which devices support the file?
The PDF works with appropriate Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, mobile devices, and compatible reading apps.

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