By: Noelani Mathews | WCTV Eyewitness News

January 3, 2019

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) -- On Thursday, the Leon County Sheriff's Office received a special visitor who is hand-crafting clocks for every sheriff's office in Florida.

Leon County was number 31 out of 67.

Dick Schmelz hand delivered the custom gift to the sheriff. In return, he received two patches and a special coin of appreciation.

"I wanted to show them respect and that people do care. It really touches you that they're so appreciative," said Schmelz.

He says he made his first clock for the department in his hometown in Gilchrist County after two deputies were killed.

Schmelz makes two clocks a week out of raw slabs of wood.

Once he left Leon County, he made stops in Gadsden and Wakulla counties to deliver their clocks.