I must've seen thousands of antique hunter-case watches in the 20-odd years that I've been into them, and I've hardly EVER seen any with the dial...
It's been years since I bought a pocketwatch, but today, I broke the dry spell for something which I found at my local flea-market. It was...
Find a job that pays money. Short of that? Sell sell sell.
The push-up things are called stump-ejectors. They're designed to pop out the leftover wax when the candle's burned down. Very useful feature, but...
Yeah, I'm sure that didn't leave any lasting effects at all, did it? *nervous twitch!*
The finished product. I used the original strop-leather as a template to cut a new strop from some leather I already had on hand, which was of a...
Arrived in the mail today. Here's the "BEFORE" images. The hallmarks are for Birmingham, 1924. Makes it 96 years old. I have seen a lot of...
It's a group of things, rather than a thing-thing, but: The pieces of Tiffany silver I bought. Two card cases, One cutlery set. One fountain pen.
The theory is very easy. Actually carrying it out was the tricky part.
Aren't you lucky that I'm always cleanshaven :)
And here's the final solution: I was especially worried about the ivory splitting and cracking off again, during the hammering process to peen...
This took me two days to complete, but here we are... My mission was as follows: Take two broken razors, and build one working razor from the...
Yes, there is a lot to be said about the smooth, glossy finish...but the stripey one is more interesting :)
Not really. I'm keeping the stripey one, and selling the other one.
Yes they did.
I scored this on eBay for cheaps, and took it to Tiffany to have it restored. It was very scratched and tarnished, and they did an amazing job...
Tom Hanks collects typewriters.
Very cool!! I fear another area of collecting opening up for me...
WUUUUT?? No, I've been using these for years, I'm not in any danger. I would be extremely surprised if this was anything other than some kind...
...Because why not, right?? When I was a little boy, my grandmother had one of these in solid gold, which she wore on a chain around her...
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