Thread: What are you working on?

THAT'S almost BETTER, Shaun!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I was adopted from birth. Old man took me home in a '56 buick 4-holer 2 door. Lying right atop the front seat.
I want one some day.
Mom and grandparents were anxiously waiting at home.
Knowing the old fart as I came to know him, he likely stopped-off at a few bars and his girlfriend to show me off.
I never stood a chance!

Well Tom, I came home with Mom and Dad in a 1950 Buick 4 holer 4 door. I want one too someday.

I always say someone farts in Antarctica, I have to smell it here!

So Rezdog and Razorfeld made a trade.....Naturally, they WOULD involve ME!

Some bone scales Scrimshawed with some seals. Cute!

Found a James Barber blade in my pile which will fit nicely. Think I will use small brass collars.
Getting attached to the seals already. This will be cool.
He really should sign and date his work. Neat stuff!

Some plain black scales for a nice little Dovo razor. Horn, and not completely black, perhaps a very very dark brown.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

My issue was picking-up the wife and newborn in a red Turbo Trans-Am.
Poor mom had to crawl into what they called a back seat. Baby rear-facing in front.
Nurse was pissed!

Then came the Buick Estate Wagon with an Olds 403 in it!

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Guess that was better than having to rush her to the hospital on the back of a 1970 electraglide. She went into labor a couple weeks early while I was on leave and at a club get together for me before shipping out. TC

Ps my dad did give me his Toranado to bring her home.

Now THAT is redneck, Tc!

What’s louder than a 1970 electraglide hauling ass?
One with a woman in labour riding on it!

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Guess that was better than having to rush her to the hospital on the back of a 1970 electraglide. .

Awesome image in my head of the way that would have looked cruising down the road..
Hope you had hiway pegs on tha bike!

......HAR!.....

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Good thinking Mike!

Helge my friend; having taken pics along the way makes it wayyyyyy easier to put things back together--especially if the project has to be set aside for longer than planned!

Trust me! I know as my Harley was torn down wayyyyy longer than anticipated and there were a couple of times I had to think about re-assembly more than I should have!

Pictures would have eliminated that little snafu.

Im happy that only the movement had to be changed and nothing inside the movement, so it only was taking the old one out of the housing and setting the new one in (after it was new greased). The only tricky thing was to adjust the jumping hour mechanism as it is the neuralgic point of the movement. Under the Disk that shows the hours works a very very very little spring that kicks the hour one hour forward everytime the minute reaches a point betweens 59 and 0, this mechanism makes a jumping hour a jumping hour but the spring is very vulnerable, in the old movement the spring was broken. The only thing that has to be fixed is the brass ring that holds the movement in place, the old one works but is very cheap made and bent so i dont trust him that he fixes the movement good enough for a rough day. Good that i know a watchmaker who has party for the puw 1561 movement of my jumping hour
Next thing to do is to fix the new straps, mokka brown rallye straps of Juchten Leather.
At the second pic you can see my next project, a Anker / Ruhla Watch from the 1960s, a Working Class Watch, made very simple but stable. I had Luck to get a original Movement from teh former GDR yesterday so im happy that the second anker will work too in a few weeks.

So a few sets of carved Rezdog scales in the mineral oil. I like the soak. Makes them yellow-out and actually gain strength, IMO.
Shaun was worried about the ink lifting.....I tested extensively. Not to worry!