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Do you have a copy of diderot's Encyclopedia?
He's got an entire section on watch and clock making tools of the late 18th C, and there are some slightly-more-primitive versions of some of the 19th C tools we know. From what I can decipher, I think they used an indexing tool to rough-cut the teeth and then something like this to turn them from entirely-angular to actual profile. Possibly something like this:
www.wiglaf.org
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but I'm not at all sure on that
Thanks for all the research, some of these things can't be understood without seeing them
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Exploratory Watchmaking - Rounding-Up Tool
Rounding-Up Tool Exploratory Group by ei8htohms Yesterday we convened the first ever meeting of the the NYC Rounding-Up Tool Exploratory Group. I say “Exploratory Group” because none of the three of us had any idea how to use this tool and there’s not a l...
Thank you, Don ...
I'm terrible with my hands and my incursions to the watchmaking stops on strap swapping but I have a particular attraction to those almost "Rube Goldberg" machines that were used by watchmakers at that time (real watchmakers, they made things). Marvelous ...
Awesome stuff
Glad to see someone trying to figure these things out. What I'd like to see is someone writing a book on these and their use, and cutter selection. Also, making new cutters for these from scratch (they always seem to be missing, that's the most I've ever ...
Do you have a copy of diderot's Encyclopedia?
He's got an entire section on watch and clock making tools of the late 18th C, and there are some slightly-more-primitive versions of some of the 19th C tools we know. From what I can decipher, I think they used an indexing tool to rough-cut the teeth and...