These colorful sundials are custom made
just for you...
- Each one of these unique indoor rainbow
sundials is meticulously designed and handmade to order by well
known sundial designer Jim Tallman as an individual commission
and treated as a functional piece of fine art sculpture. Every
individual Spectra sundial is carefully calculated and crafted
for the place where it is to be located and the direction it
will be facing, so unlike most commercially available "catalog"
sundials it actually works and is capable of telling
clock time to within a couple minutes of accuracy. As a result,
every Spectra sundial looks a little bit different and no two
dials are ever exactly the same, yet they are all part of the
same worldwide family of Spectra sundials.
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- The Spectra
sundial stands almost 12" tall and is made of beveled
glass and fine hand rubbed cast stone with brass shadowcaster
and leveling feet, complete with a soft rubber bottom to protect
your furniture or window sill. The Spectra is designed to have
a removable dial plate, so if you ever move far away you can
always send your Spectra sundial back to us for refitting for
your new location - then your custom sundial will still have
the same special
inscription and date line, but the shadow field above will
be reconfigured for your new global position and sundial direction
so the dial will continue to give you perfect time in your new
home, wherever that may be.
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- All Spectra sundials arrive with
an informative packet of sundial information that includes detailed
illustrated instructions on setup and use, product features,
and an individual data sheet signed by the designer with all
of the technical specifications for your specific sundial. Click
on any picture for a closer look, or you can go directly to the
sundial orders page to learn
more about how to have one made for you.
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- These unique vertical sundials are
individually designed and made to point, or "face"-
meaning the direction you will be facing when you read them -
any direction that receives direct sunlight during the course
of the day. Some of the standard direction sundials are designed
to face due south, like the one pictured at the top of this page,
and tell time during the midday hours. You can also get a due
east facing sundial made that will tell time during the morning
hours or a due west facing sundial that will tell time from midday
until the sun slips out of sight in the evening. These east or
west facing beveled glass sundials can easily throw a beautiful
rainbow colored spectrum
all the way across your room in the morning or evening when
the sun is low in the sky.
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- The Spectra sundial can be ordered
as a unique gift that simply faces one of these cardinal compass
directions - E, SE, S, SW, or W - or if you want to give a Spectra
as a gift and are unsure of where your recipients might want
to put it or which direction their window faces, or if you just
want to give them the experience of having a custom sundial made
specifically for their chosen window, you can order a Spectra
sundial gift certificate for a sundial to be made at a later
date - that way they can contact us directly and have it made
however they like.
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- This is a mostly eastern facing Spectra
sundial that tells time during the morning hours. Sometimes a
certain windowsill or other sunny spot will not perfectly one
of the basic compass directions mentioned above, requiring you
to rotate a standard direction Spectra sundial until it faces
its design compass direction. In situations where this is not
acceptable, such as a placement like the one above on a narrow
southeast facing windowsill, we have devised a way using satellite
images from Google Earth that we can use to make your new glass
sundial so that it will face the same direction that your window
does. We also have another method we can use to "aim"
the proposed sundial so that it can be oriented with respect
to its surroundings - contact
us for details. Generally, if you can face the sun directly
in your proposed location or chosen window sill at some time
during the day, we can make a sundial for you that will indicate
the time during that part of the day.
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- For $295.00 (US) you can have a Spectra
sundial designed and handmade just for you. Let us know what
direction it should face, the town where it will be located,
any special
inscriptions (you will have a chance during the ordering
process) and we will get your new custom sundial started right
away! We use PayPal to process all of our online credit card
transactions - and you can use your regular credit card to order
a Spectra sundial - you do not need to have a PayPal account.
The shipping charge for continental US delivery of your Spectra
sundial will be added during checkout, and shipping charges on
international orders will vary. If you order a Spectra for international
delivery, be sure to tell us where it is going and we will email
you a PayPal request for payment to cover any additional shipping
charges.
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