This documentary touches upon what is one of the ever increasingly deficient aspects in our contemporary society. Up here in Canada, we are at a point where we simply don't make anything anymore ! We depend upon the manufacturing skills from low wage workers in other countries (usually Mexico and Asia) to produce what we in Canada and the US used to make daily (And still need incidentally !). We used to make cars, and electric and mechanical motors, locomotives (Still need !), clocks, watches, tool and dyes (Urgently needed along with the skills which go with them !), and the schools who are willing to teach industrial arts. No one in North America seems to make quality furniture in any quantity (Now we go to Ikea to get what we used to make in every major city in the US & Canada !) We have allowed our respective educational institutions and Governments to totally disassemble our manufacturing base ! Even our major needs for high quality electronics are *Not* satisfied by being manufactured in the US or Canada ! How sad is that ! ?
I believe there is quite a lot of interest actually, just very little opportunity. See, no-one 'takes someone in' these days. In old europe and even america back in the day you had apprenticeships that extended beyond just visiting for a couple hours a day and wasting gas and all that. Your 'apprentice' had the opportunity to sleep and live on-site to get as most work and practice done as possible and not worry about where they can lay down at night. Modern folks do not practice this way of humanity anymore. No-one who has a stable job will drop everything to be an apprentice when they have to pay 2k a month for an overpriced apartment.
Buy a watch or clockmaker's lathe used , brass and steel bar stock, some small metal files, a loupe, propane torch, small staking hammer from India $5,00, and you can make pretty much any tool from scratch for this field. From a retired clock repairer full time for the last 35 years. Maybe $400 in all.
Hi Dustin - You might consider adding a description to the UA-cam video explaining your project and its noble goal to inspire a new generation of watch and clockmakers.
Ironic that Real Mechanical Clock interest is in a major decline due to cheap quartz time pieces and digital clocks, Yet this video, while educational and interesting, Starts with the sound bite of an annoying quartz clock tick. Thank You for doing the story just the same. Don't feel picked on here, I complained to Hermle Clock in Germany about them using annoying Tubular bell Recording at the beginning of their Company History Video. It wasn't the fact that it was Tubular, but it was out of adjustment and double striking the tubes and that their new stiff metallic tube hangers transfer the tube's resonation to the tube rack and every other tube on the rack. Here is the sound of our shop on the inside. www.champsclock.com/download/johnmooretowerclock@champsclock.mp3
"...far more precise than whats being produced today..." Eh... no they aren't. I love mechanical clocks and watches too... but frankly, they cannot compete with modern quartz tech.
I remember watching this back in 2013.
excellent information. this was very enjoyable to watch. it's a shame that craftsmen of this type are going away.
This documentary touches upon what is one of the ever increasingly deficient aspects in our contemporary society. Up here in Canada, we are at a point where we simply don't make anything anymore ! We depend upon the manufacturing skills from low wage workers in other countries (usually Mexico and Asia) to produce what we in Canada and the US used to make daily (And still need incidentally !). We used to make cars, and electric and mechanical motors, locomotives (Still need !), clocks, watches, tool and dyes (Urgently needed along with the skills which go with them !), and the schools who are willing to teach industrial arts. No one in North America seems to make quality furniture in any quantity (Now we go to Ikea to get what we used to make in every major city in the US & Canada !) We have allowed our respective educational institutions and Governments to totally disassemble our manufacturing base ! Even our major needs for high quality electronics are *Not* satisfied by being manufactured in the US or Canada ! How sad is that ! ?
Bob Desrochers (or anyone else) - Please can you tell me where the church is at 5:07 into this great video?
I believe there is quite a lot of interest actually, just very little opportunity. See, no-one 'takes someone in' these days. In old europe and even america back in the day you had apprenticeships that extended beyond just visiting for a couple hours a day and wasting gas and all that. Your 'apprentice' had the opportunity to sleep and live on-site to get as most work and practice done as possible and not worry about where they can lay down at night. Modern folks do not practice this way of humanity anymore. No-one who has a stable job will drop everything to be an apprentice when they have to pay 2k a month for an overpriced apartment.
If I could afford tools and materials, I'd love to get into this. I guess it's the only thing I feel interested in.
Buy a watch or clockmaker's lathe used , brass and steel bar stock, some small metal files, a loupe, propane torch, small staking hammer from India $5,00, and you can make pretty much any tool from scratch for this field. From a retired clock repairer full time for the last 35 years. Maybe $400 in all.
Very well done. Thankyou
Hi Dustin - You might consider adding a description to the UA-cam video explaining your project and its noble goal to inspire a new generation of watch and clockmakers.
Ironic that Real Mechanical Clock interest is in a major decline due to cheap quartz time pieces and digital clocks, Yet this video, while educational and interesting, Starts with the sound bite of an annoying quartz clock tick. Thank You for doing the story just the same. Don't feel picked on here, I complained to Hermle Clock in Germany about them using annoying Tubular bell Recording at the beginning of their Company History Video. It wasn't the fact that it was Tubular, but it was out of adjustment and double striking the tubes and that their new stiff metallic tube hangers transfer the tube's resonation to the tube rack and every other tube on the rack. Here is the sound of our shop on the inside.
www.champsclock.com/download/johnmooretowerclock@champsclock.mp3
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"...far more precise than whats being produced today..."
Eh... no they aren't. I love mechanical clocks and watches too... but frankly, they cannot compete with modern quartz tech.