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Some pics of the finished product:
As you can see the dowel was cut to length, glued into the spire and inserted to sit on the clock hands to move them around the axis for demonstration purposes:
The Liahona had two spindles or pointers which worked together to ensure the direction Nephi should go:
Sorry about the blurriness. I have to figure out how to take close-ups without losing focus. What's not shown is how I mounted the clock mechanism underneath. I glued the rosette to the box making sure that the center hole was larger than the clock gear spindle to allow free movement by the clock hands. I put clay at the bottom of the ball to give it some weight and help keep the ball upright. I hot glued the mechanism/rosette down into place and I placed the hands or "spindles"/"pointers" afterward. The hands were trimmed to look identical. I then glued the top half of the ball onto the bottom half at the equator with super glue. Then I hot glued the bottom tip of the spire/axis and inserted through the top hole of the ball and onto the center axis of the clock hands and pressed in place. This makes it so that I can twist the spire and move the spindles around for demonstration/teaching purposes.
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That's it!! 
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