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Books > Arts & Architecture > Antiques & collectables > Antique clocks & watches > General
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
"Homebuilt Clocks" provides step by step details for building
large, beautiful, antique style heirloom Grandmother Wall Clocks
and mantle clock variations using attractive Hardwoods, dials,
weights and Brass hardware. The finished clocks are attractive and
functional and will give the builder great pleasure in both the
craftsmanship and final beauty. A wonderful addition to a
woodcrafter's library.
A practical and enjoyable way for the beginner, with no knowledge,
to start on the journey of becoming a serious watch collector.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
Eberhardt (1758-1839) was master clockmaker in Salem for more than
thirty-eight years. Albright attributes more than thirty clocks to
Eberhardt, building his evidence by a diligent reading of the
Moravion records and by a careful catloging of the characteristics
of each clock. He reconstructs Eberhardt's methods of clockmaking
in precise detail from the inventories and the purchase invoices of
equipment and materials, and he attempts to identify the
cabinetmaker in each case.
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"How To Fix Your Own Clock" gives simple answers to basic minor
problems that can be easily corrected by most clock owners. This
book is written for the typical mechanical clock owner who knows
little about clocks - and who doesn't want to run up a repair bill
if it can be helped. The book is in an easy to understand question
and answer format, and comes from actual questions from the
author's newspaper column. The author, Richard Hansen (a master
clock repairman and owner of his own clock repair business for 15
years), knows that often, a clock may need little more than the
correct set-up, or a minor adjustment to go from "dust collector"
in your attic - to "treasured and accurate timepiece" in your
living room He wrote this book so you can get your clock going -
and keep it going - easily and inexpensively
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
There is a shortage of skilled watchmakers and clockmakers in
America, and soon millions of timepieces of a bygone age will
likely be gathering dust in a bottom drawer or attic, or worse,
scraped for the gold or silver content of their cases, and in the
case of clocks just thrown away. Every year young Americans
graduate from high school with no plans for college and no job
skills. But under their nose, at least for a select few, is a trade
that can provide for them a chance to be self-employed in a society
where only a small number out of a hundred have the courage to even
think of such a thing and a chance to earn much more than they ever
will as an employee. Many may have been told that watch and clock
makers are obsolete because of all the cheap watches and clocks on
the market now and have no idea how much money can be earned
operating a watch and clock repair shop. This book will put that
myth to rest. There is money to be earned in the watch and clock
repair business, and that is an opportunity a young person not
headed for college, or even one who is, cannot afford to pass up.
The watch and clock manufacturing industry has gone through many
changes over the last fifty years and with that came changes in the
watch repair industry-mostly for the betterment of those in the
trade. Watchmakers today are making more money than ever.
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