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   DanH | Sep 16, 2009 02:17am | #1

   I guess not. Go here:

   http://www.timeshapes.com/

   As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
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   Scott | Sep 16, 2009 02:25am | #2

   Wow, Very cool.Don't know how accurate they are, but I could watch them all day long.Scott.

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   DanH | Sep 16, 2009 02:41am | #4

   He had about a dozen of them in his shop when we were there last weekend, but only about four were wound and running.Prices start around $3500, and climb rapidly from there.
   As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz

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   VinceCarbone | Sep 16, 2009 03:43am | #5

   Yeah, what time was it?   Vince Carbone

   Riverside Builders

   Franklin,NY

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   Scott | Sep 16, 2009 06:49am | #6

   >>>Prices start around $3500, and climb rapidly from there.Whew; too cool for me.But good for him for creating a market. The gears reek of fine workmanship, and the artistry is impressive, and the physics.Scott.

   Edited 9/16/2009 12:46 am by Scott

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   DanH | Sep 16, 2009 03:12pm | #7

   Yeah, it was interesting seeing his shop. Stacks of wooden gears, in various stages of finishing from rough blanks to final sanding to finish applied.He had a couple of clocks with "normal" escapements, but most had escapements that were designed to move more slowly, to be able to impart more energy to the pendulum.
   As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz

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   reinvent | Sep 16, 2009 02:40am | #3

   Sort of related in that is a cool gear sculpture.http://technology.todaysbigthing.com/2008/11/03

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   YesMaam27577 | Sep 16, 2009 03:32pm | #8

   For my purposes (and mine only), I wish you would have started your post with "and now for something completely different".

   Because I recently completed building a clock for my son's wedding present. It's over at Knots if you want to see it.

   http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots/messages?msg=47970.1

   But make no mistake, mine has nowhere near the artistry.

   I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm gone,
   And I can't question how or when or why when I'm gone;
   I can't live proud enough to die when I'm gone,
   So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here. (Phil Ochs)