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Jerry Kenney owner Clocktools.com
Jerry is proud to offer a line of the finest books and DVDs by some famous authors like W.R. Smith and John Wilding. The books and DVDs cover everything you could imagine in the horological field, hints and tips for clockmakers and repairers , clock making and model making ideas and more.............. |
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John C. Losch Book Review |
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Written by John C. Losch
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Wednesday, 06 February 2002 03:02 |
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Workshop Procedures for Clockmakers & Modelmakers A Video by Bill Smith February 6, 2002 Bill Smith’s latest instructional video is a bag full of machinist’s "insider" techniques. The content is a reflection of years of experience at the trade, and makes no pretentious claim to revealing the techniques not often found in books, but that is what it does. I have been a machinist and clockmaker for almost as long as Bill Smith, and I know from that experience that most of the old timers take for granted the information in this video. They assumed that everyone learned these things as apprentices. |
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During my many years of writing in the field of clockmaking and modelmaking, when there was an unusual shop technique under way or a different tool in use, I switched from a B & W camera to a color slide camera. As a result, I ended up with an extremely large number of color slides. A few of these were used for lectures at National and Regional conventions.