![]() ![]() But I enjoy the work and it gives me a lot of challenges in design and execution. My clock work is a hobby, and it is very badly paid. In addition I have lots of tools and grinders, saws, manual and electric files etc etc etc.Īnd also an old clockmaker lathe with lots of equipment. My milling machine is from “Chester machine tools”, but they called it a “drill with milling facility”. I have made a tool so I can cut pinions in this lathe.Īnd I have made a wheel teeth cutting machine also: a good tool with a kitchen ventilator motor etc etc. I have this Russian lathe with a lot of equipment. My workshop is ok in size and warm enough in the winter time. Do you have a shop or home workshop that you work from, tell me about it? So the clock runs fast with high internet activity! 2. I made some gear-motor, a company put in a controller, and a man made a program that analyzed the internet activity. It was made of an old train station clock from Holland. 10 hours a day is difficult to learn, but it is very practical in time calculation.Ī very funny project was an exhibition clock. The “problem” was to teach students to read this clock. It was a part of an exhibition, and it works very well with specially made Smith of Derby motors and electronics. I contacted an old bell foundry in Holland, and got the best price, but the job went to a Norwegian bell foundry.Ī big and interesting project was a decimal clock. I contacted Smith of Derby, and we have sold 10 electric clocks around Norway.Ī funny story: in Norway we have the same word for clock and bell, so one day I got a phone call from an architect company that wanted some bells for a new church. (Clockmaker) therefore I have people call me to put up a new wall/tower clock. My company name is “Klokkemakeren Lavoll”. Later I have restored 2 more of these C.F.Rochlizt (Berlin) clocks, they are from 1890. But this method gave a very reflective light, and it looks very nice in the dark with a spotlight. Later I used a gold spray method on the numbers and parts of the face, it is very expensive work. I got my first total restoration object, and it was interesting to learn about the clocks dramatic history and to get the clock to tick again.Īt the BHI I learned how to gold plate metal, and I did it with the hands to this clock. I joined many BHI seminars, and start looking around in Bergen for big clocks. The lathe is very stable and nice to work with.Įducation is important, so I went to the BHI for my first seminar, and Alan Timmins was the teacher, a very clever man. I bought a Russian lathe from an English company they had rebuilt it with variable speed control. I started reading, converted all inches to mm and had a lot of fun. (How wrong can a man be?) So I bought “Making an Eight Day Longcase Clock” by Alan Timmins. I liked to work with lathes in a motorcycle shop, and then I told myself that it would be funny to make a clock. When did your interest in horology begin, and who or what inspired you?
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