Day 60
March 1, 2010Wow! That’s two months completed!
We’re having lots of fun with the ‘Shiny’ theme.
Sorry, I ate all the olives……
Shiny olive forks
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Day 61
March 2, 2010The ‘shiny‘ theme is really good…it stretches the skills too!
It’s proving really tricky to keep myself out of the picture, with all the reflections
An oil jug in Pam's kitchen
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Day 62
March 3, 2010The good news is that it’s a little cooler today…..
Really shiny -- guess what?
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Day 87
March 28, 2010A piece of engineering that could well be a sculpture.
It’s great to be back home with my favourite lenses. I just so took the wrong ones away to Australia. (This is the 70-200 f2.8 IS.)
Fence detail
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Day 91
April 1, 2010Kairen’s been after these oil cans for some time. They arrived today.
New olive oil cans
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Day 95
April 6, 2010A day for staying indoors!
I just love the richness of the materials used in clocks.
Weights in a long case clock
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Day 96
April 6, 2010This is the face of ‘Harry’ our arched dial longcase clock with a glazed trunk door in English Oak. His proper name is ‘Henry James’.
His hand engraved brass and silver dial was lovingly made in Sheffield. The hand engraving is a special skill synonymous with the metal working heritage of Sheffield, and a decoration that can be found on clocks from the eighteenth century.
In essence hand engraving is the art of removing metal by cutting with a small chisel held in one’s hand. The special quality of hand engraving which differs from machine engraving is that not only is each one unique but the grooves cut become calligraphic and not symmetrical. Also an engraver can have true artistic abilities such as can be clearly seen. In today’s world of automation it is a unique enhancement and probably not seen on any other clocks made today.
The face of 'Henry James'
Mark Laverton is one of the few craftsmen still making clocks by hand. He starts from solid oak and builds every component, only the movements are bought in from Germany (Hermle). Each one of his Grandfather clocks being an individual starts off life with its own name, so he knows who has gone where.
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