clockmaker

The class will cover wheel cutting on the milling machine, the lathe, and a devoted gear cutting machine. It will cover where the standards will lead you astray and where they are absolutely necessary to calculate sizes. Layouts, press fits, and spoking will also be covered. The metallurgy of horological gear cutting will also be explored. We will also cover cutter selection for escape wheels.

The class will proceed from the standpoint of replacing a wheel and pinion that are missing from a train, and it will move on to make that assembly then duplicate the rest of the pieces in the gear train.