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 handcrafted for the
specific place where it is to be located and the direction it
will be facing, so unlike most commercially available garden
center or online sundials it actually works, can provide personalized
date lines for special occasions, 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 personally signed by Spectra creator
Jim Tallman 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 beautiful
rainbow colored spectrum
beams 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 Jim directly and have it made
however they like. The Spectra sundial has been in continual
production since 2002, and over those years Jim Tallman has personally
handcrafted and shipped his sundials to customers all over the
world. Many of them have written back to Jim to express their
appreciation, and you can read some of the things they had to
say on the Spectra sundial comments
page.
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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 face
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 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
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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 $345.00
(USD) you can have a Spectra sundial custom 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
- just click the buy button below and check out as a guest if
you don't have a PayPal account. The standard shipping charge
of $20.00 (USD) for continental US delivery of your Spectra sundial
will be automatically added to your total charge amount 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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- The Spectra sundial is made just
for you, for your specific location circumstances and including
your own personal inscriptions and date lines. It is a highly
customized privately commissioned work of art that once made,
cannot be resold to any other customer. As such, no returns will
be approved and no refunds given after a job has been started
or completed and sent to you. This is mentioned here because
we think it proper to state our policy for custom orders right
here on our web site, not because we have ever had any quality
problems in the past. If you would like to learn more about our
reputation and the high quality standards we have established,
we encourage you to have a look at these past customer
sundial comments which have been sent to us over the years.
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