WTB George Nelson Howard Miller Clock Second Hand  

2nd hand
There is a person who frequently has them for sale on ebay and the going rate seems to be around a hundred dollars. I want one too but that is a lot of money for such a tiny little thing.

I seem to recall that at...
I seem to recall that at some point, someone here posted a link to a clock supply store that sold ones very similar to the originals. Not certain, however if they fit on to the original movements.

.
Did you mean the minute hand? Are you sure it was red?
Post a pic of what you are looking for?
http://www.georgenelson.org/georgenelsonclocks.html

.
Very similar hands were used on later (much cheaper) Howard Miller clocks too. I have a HM wicker clock from the seventies (?) with Nelson hands, market value of not very much, I think.
It's a shame to sacrifice one cool clock for another though, regardless of collectibility or whatever.

It appears that the Spike...
It appears that the Spike style may have at times been available without a second hand?
or is it that a large percentage of them have gone missing?
(edit)- or both?

Second Hand
I was looking for the red screw on 2nd hand, not the minute hand. I agree on the ebay guy at $100, too much although I see people have bought them at $130 ??

ebay second hand
I think the EBAY second hands come rom non Miller clocks...possibly GE..just mu sense...

Maybe
just cut that shit out of a tin can lid and spray paint it red, hang it on the wall and forget about it.
Compared with the other apparent options of either getting extremely lucky or spending a hundred dollars for someone ELSE'S fabricated knock-off, it's pretty reasonable to just improvise for the meantime.
That's the creative approach vs. the solve-it-with-an-abusive-waste-of-money-approach though, and these approaches are usually evaluated on totally different scales.
Parenthetically,
(This makes me think of middle-class consumer habits, the unhappiness involved in the provocation of many buying decisions, the desperate search to appear refined, cultured and educated, the obsession with the irrelevant or terrible because of it's perceived class value and demonstration of status which is not at all what this thread is about but chew on that anyway.)

One more thing-
BOYCOTT CHRISTMAS.

Step away from the edge...
Step away from the edge objectworship.