Today was a very good day, I drove from Columbus Ohio to Warren which is just on the border with Pennsylvania, the drive took about 3.5 hours.
I met my host for the day who took me to meet a highly skilled clock repairer who now specialises in the repair and conservation on wood wheeled clocks. He has done a huge amount of work in new methods of cutting wood wheels and has even printed some new wheels on a 3D printer in blue plastic which as far as I am aware is pretty new stuff, for us in horology anyway. I am not sure quite how we might use this but the technology is followed by a use, possibly. The clock restorer also uses CNC and a very sophisticated technological drawing application 'solid works' and similar to enable him to create the 3D images. There is much to thing about with this. I was also able to see and Ives movement in bits Ives was the first american clockmaker to use roller trundles in his clock work although Harrison had used them nearly 100 years before......
On the way there and back I was treated to a master class on different housing styles in the area, which has a large Amish community.
Once back at my host's house we spent hours looking at his clock collection,He has a particular interest in clocks made locally to his area, he is also a clock dial specialist and I learnt a great deal, not just about dials but also the furniture of the very local area, and the surrounding 50 or so miles. He and his wife have a very interesting collection, all housed in a historic house, my favourite bit was a pastry cutter made with a wooden clock wheel! , we did not finish chatting to 2 am.
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