Links
Below are links to some interesting horological sites I've come across
- updated June 12, 2011 -
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Very Original Interpretation of a Grasshopper Escapement Timekeeper (video) (added 6-12-2011)
Wood Tourbillon (video) (added 6-17-2010)
Del's Beautiful New Wooden Machine (video) (added 6-17-2010)
Ray Bates,The British Clockmaker, TV Film, MtnLake PublicTV (video) (added 6-12-2010)
Ray Bates, MBHI, Pres., The British Clockmaker, Inc. (video) (added 6-12-2010)
Running Out of Time: Portrait of a Clockmaker (video) (added 6-12-2010)
Gears Meshing by misterhmv (video) (added 6-6-2010)
Escape Wheel and pallets by misterhmv (video) (added 6-6-2010)
Escape Wheel and pallets 2 by misterhmv (video) (added 6-6-2010)
My S3 Timkeeper (video) (added 5-23-2010)
Test escapement for "No.7" by fr31tas (video) (added 5-18-2010)
400 hours in to No.7 by fr31tas (video) (added 5-18-2010)
The 3-D Escapement of the BHI Clock (video) (added 5-16-2010)
Homemade electrical wooden clock with Hipp Toggle by Luis Mendaña (video) (added 5-16-2010)
Astronomical skeleton clock with H1 like balances (video) (added 5-9-2010)
(D)W5 precision clock closeup slomo miss (video) (added 5-9-2010)
How a Watch Works (video) (added 5-2-2010)
ECS Master Clock by Tricyklist (video) (added 5-2-2010)
- Amazing Harrison RAS Regulator Reproduction By David Heskin (Mr. Gould, make room for Mr. Heskin!)-
Harrison RAS regulator reproduction book SLEEPING IN OBLIVION - John "Longitude" Harrison's Forgotten Masterpiece - By David Heskin (added 5-1-2010)
NAWCC Book Review - SLEEPING IN OBLIVION - John "Longitude" Harrison's Forgotten Masterpiece (added 5-1-2010)
Harrison RAS regulator 1 (video) (added 5-1-2010) - The Heskin RAS Regulator reproduction going.
Harrison RAS regulator 2 (video) (added 5-1-2010) - Side view regulator going.
Harrison RAS regulator 3 (video) (added 5-1-2010) - Remontoire operation close-up.
Harrison RAS regulator 4 (video) (added 5-1-2010) - Grasshopper escapement test close-up, plate cutting.
Harrison RAS regulator 5 (video) (added 5-1-2010) - Plates, pillars and anti-friction wheels.
Harrison RAS regulator 6 (video) (added 5-1-2010) - Cutting wheel teeth, anti-friction wheel demonstration.
Harrison RAS regulator 7 (video) (added 5-1-2010) - Remontoire wheel, cam and anti-friction wheels.
Harrison RAS regulator 8 (video) (added 5-1-2010) - Remonitire mechanism test.
Harrison RAS regulator 9 (video) (added 5-1-2010) - Remonitire mechanism test with fly and escape wheel.
Harrison RAS regulator 10 (video) (added 5-1-2010) - Weight barrel, Harrison maintaining power, clicks and ratchets.
Harrison RAS regulator 11 (video) (added 5-1-2010) - Grasshopper escapement and Remontoire demonstration.
Harrison RAS regulator 12 (video) (added 5-1-2010) - Dials and engraving process, dials operation demonstration.
Harrison RAS regulator 13 (video) (added 5-1-2010) - Pendulum suspension cheeks. Regulator going - Beautiful!
- Harrison Long Case Regulator Reproductions from fosteragnes -
Harrison wooden regulator 2 (video) (added 11-16-2008)
Harrison wooden regulator 3 (video) (added 11-16-2008)
Harrison wooden regulator 4 (video) (added 11-16-2008)
Harrison wooden regulator 5 (video) (added 11-16-2008)
Harrison wooden regulator 6 (video) (added 11-16-2008)
Harrison wooden regulator 7 (video) (added 11-16-2008)
- Forums -
World's Best Forum on Wooden Works Clocks
- Videos of wheels and pinions being cut on a scrollsaw -
10 Leaf Pinion (video) (added 7-22-2007)
16 Leaf Pinion (video) (added 7-22-2007)
60 Tooth Wheel (video) (added 7-22-2007)
Escape Wheel (video) (added 7-22-2007)
- Wooden Clocks - With Plans -
"Electra" wooden gear electric clock with Hipp Toggle - design by Clayton Boyer (video) (added 11-24-2007)
Clayton Boyer's Clocks
Gary's Wooden Clocks
Aluminum and brass version of Gary's 2003 clock (no plans)
Marc Tovar's Wooden ClockWorks
Marc Tovar's MLT-13 (video) (added 5-29-2010)
Brian Law’s Woodenclocks
Carlo G. Croce's Wooden clock #39
Rob Oxley's Wooden Works Skeleton Clock
Rick Hutcheson's Wood Gear Clocks
Nick Andronis' Wooden Grandfather Clock
Jeff Schierenbeck's Wooden-Gear-Clocks
John Randle's Clocks By John
Houtman Designs - Peg-gear-clock
- Wooden Clocks - Without Plans -
Hard Time - wooden clock by Adrian Iredale (video) (added 4-6-2008)
Gerald Smith memorial clock by Philip Brutz - design by Clayton Boyer (video) (added 9-8-2007)
Hana Time by Richard Hanks - design by Clayton Boyer (video) (added 9-8-2007)
Kevin Bird - Making the largest wooden clock in the world (added 8-12-2007)
Solaris Wood Clock with Arnfield escapement by Arian Iredale (video) (added 8-6-2007)
Brendan Reilly clockwork sculptor (added 7-29-2007)
Lolli Wood Clock by Arian Iredale (video) (added 7-14-2007)
Flying Duck Wooden Clock by Arian Iredale (video) (added 7-4-2007)
Hand Made Wooden Grandfather Clock (video) (added 7-4-2007)
Jigsawing, To suspend time | Translated (added 7-4-2007)
Wooden clock by Massimo Tarulli
James Borden's 30 foot clock
Wooden Works Pocket Watch
J.R. Beall's Wooden Clocks
Rabbit's Clocks
Wooden Clock - Seaside Small Craft
Claude Sauvageau - Wooden Clockworks
Wooden clocks by André Napert
Skeleton Wall Clock by David Bowerman
Ketterer Apostle Clock
Wooden Clocks by John Pickron
Jeff Arnett's WebSite
William Matthysen
Kuyt Richards
- Non-Clock wooden mechanisms -
Del's Beautiful New Wooden Machine (video) (added 6-17-2010)
Quadrapult by Brad Litwin (video) (added 7-14-2007)
The Octapult by Brad Litwin (video) (added 7-14-2007)
Wood That Works - Kinetic Sculptures
- Electric Horology -
ATO Leon Hatot Magnetpendeluhr, Werknummer 021392 (video) (added 6-17-2010)ECS Master Clock by Tricyklist (added 5-2-2010)
Pulsynetic (video)
Martin Ridout's Electrical Horology
Rod Elliott's Electronically impulsed pendulum clock (added 12-2-2007)
The Hipp Toggle - Electromagnetically driven pendulum:
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Homemade electrical wooden clock with Hipp Toggle by Luis Mendaña (video) (added 5-16-2010)
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Gents master clock - Hipp Toggle - from RODALCO2007 (video) (added 11-15-2008)
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Gents waiting train tower clock movement (video) (added 11-15-2008)
Additional information on the Gents waiting train tower clock movement (added 11-15-2008)
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The Hipp Toggle - Electric Masters website (added 11-9-2008)
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The Hipp Toggle - Werner and Elsbeth Moser's site
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The Hipp Toggle - British Horological Institute
- Escapements and General Horology -
Wood Tourbillon (video) (added 6-17-2010)
Ray Bates,The British Clockmaker, TV Film, MtnLake PublicTV (video) (added 6-12-2010)
Ray Bates, MBHI, Pres., The British Clockmaker, Inc. (video) (added 6-12-2010)
Running Out of Time: Portrait of a Clockmaker (video) (added 6-12-2010)
Escape Wheel and pallets by misterhmv (video) (added 6-6-2010)
Escape Wheel and pallets 2 by misterhmv (video) (added 6-6-2010)
Arnfield's gravity escapement used in the BHI 150 clock realised in lego (video) (added 5-16-2010)
Novel Regulator Escapement animation by John Downie (video) (added 5-16-2010)
Novel Regulator Escapement prototype by John Downie (video) (added 5-16-2010)
A most unusual wooden escapement mechanism by dgreene909 (video) (added 5-16-2010)
YouTube video from Kandabako (added 5-15-2010)
YouTube video from Kandabako (added 5-15-2010)
naluse.com
How a Watch Works (video) (added 5-2-2010)
The Corpus Clock - Dr John Taylor's Grasshopper Clock (video) (added 11-15-2008)
The Clock Tower (Big Ben) tour - enhanced podcast (w/ moving pictures) (added 11-9-2008)
Grimthorpe's 4 legged gravity escapement in lego technic (video) (added 11-9-2008)
Lego technic free pendulum clock (W5) (video) (added 11-9-2008)
Lego technic free pendulum clock (W5) (detail 1) (video) (added 11-9-2008)
Lego technic free pendulum clock (W5) (detail 2) (video) (added 11-9-2008)
Lego technic free pendulum clock (W5) (detail 3) (video) (added 11-9-2008)
Lego technic free pendulum clock (W5) (detail 4) (video) (added 11-9-2008)
Verge and foliot clock in St. Alban's Abbey (video) (added 6-22-2008)
One of the oldest wooden clocks in Melk Austria (video) (added 4-6-2008)
Grasshopper Escapement from Wikipedia® (animation) (added 11-30-2007)
Harrison movement designed by Stuart Pratt (video) (added 7-27-2007)
Seaclock based on Harrison's H1 from Dave (video) (added 7-20-2007)
John Arnold Spring Detent Escapement Model (video) (added 7-7-2007)
TroisC tourbillon escapement model and video
Tempered-online - Showcase for independent watchmakers and clockmakers
David Walter's interpretation of Woodward's W5
Sattler Clock USA (Video)
Dave's Grasshopper Regulator (Video)
Grasshopper Escapement (Video)
Rolling Ball Clock (Video)
Tower Clock Striking (Video)
Mark Headrick's Horology Page
Mark Headrick's Escapements in motion
- Books about Horology -
Shentonbooks - Horological Reference Books
- Gears -
Gears Meshing by misterhmv (video) (added 6-6-2010)
Gear template generator from Matthias Wandel's Woodworking website (added 7-4-2007)
Incredible wood machine - Zahnradmaschine rein aus Holz (video) (added 7-4-2007)
Gear tooth info from the University of Denver
Hugh Sparks' page on Designing Cycloidal Gears
Ohio State University - Mechanical Engineering Gear Collection
- CAD Software -
The following CAD programs will allow you to print "DXF" drawing files at 1:1 scale.
These (and other DXF CAD viewing programs capable of 1:1 printing) will allow you to use
DXF drawings found on many clock sites as patterns to cut the actual wooden parts
with a scroll saw.
CAUTION: As with any software downloaded from the Web, there are risks involved. I have downloaded
and installed these programs on my system, and so far, I haven't had any problems; however, you must
assume full responsibility if you decide to install these on your system.
(Prices listed and download links were current as of September 2006)
Wow - Design parts on your computer with their free CAD program, get an instant price quote for fabrication and order parts within the program, get parts delivered by post.
- Includes free CAD program for drawing designs and generating online pricing
- Import and Export drawings in DXF file format
- Print designs 1:1 on your printer
- Download is 6.4 Megabytes
- Makes custom parts completely via the Internet
- 3D View Mode
- They even have a sister site for on-line design and ordering of Printed Circuit Boards
- Free 15 day trial with registration
- Top notch professional program for a very reasonable price
- Full version of ther TurboCAD Deluxe is only $149.95
- I use the earlier TurboCAD Deluxe v6.5 to design my clocks - I love it!
- Zoom with mouse wheel
- Great FAST! "Snap To" on-the-fly shortcut keys; e.g. c=center of circle, m=mid point of line, v=end of line, q=quad of circle (i.e. 0, 90, 180, 270, degs)
- Fantastic Radial, Array, Linear and Mirror copy tools (I use the Radial copy to fill a wheel with teeth)
- Reads and Saves in DWG, DXF, TCW(TurboCad native), JPG, BMP, PDF and many other file formats
- 2D and 3D
- Free 45 day trial
- Full version $39.95