saturday 5th feburary

life seems to go past so quicky lately. Christmas and Janurary have just flown, maybe there is a lot that has happened, but there seems no time to sit back and take stock. I am now enrolled in a distance learning course with the british horological institute, BHI studying clock and watch repair. hopefully that will lead to a career change sometime down the track. who knows..

Kay has been down from Toowoomba, QLD, for a couple of weeks in mid Janurary, so they just flew by. we did go to the platypus interpretation centre,A linkalso went to Salamanca market, had a night at a friends in hobart, and spent some time up in the North East.

Got a nice book for xmas, called "wheel and pinion cutting in horology" written by Malcolm j. Wild. very good book on making gear cutters, working out gear geometry, both cycloidic and involute, also covers many old tools and jigs.
Also bought a copy of george daniels' book, "watchmaking" and the olny word for that, if you havent seen it, is wow!

no John Deere progress, just work and sleep lately.
more soon