Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #508514 in Books
• Published on: 1997-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

A perfect introduction to clock repairs, tools & movement
This is a great book for the beginner. As it says in the preface 'This book is written for those who have a facination for clocks but, even so, have never taken a look at the movement'. It is very simple and easy to understand and incredibly interesting. If you are starting out in clock repairs you do not want to be bogged down with technical terminology in a book that is an inch thick, do you? It is good to read, has nice diagrams and info on tools you may require. If you wanted to go further with your clock repairs you could read this book then get a more detailed book, but if clock repairing is not for you, then you have only wasted £6. Buy this book...A very simple decision.

More of a clock dictionary
If you're new to clock repairs, and are condidering buying this book in the hope that you'll become an expert, then I'm afraid that you're probably going to be very disappointed. The problem is that this is a paperback with just 104 pages of clock related stuff, mainly telling you how the clocks are put together and what the various bits are called. There is not a section devoted to trouble-shooting the problem with your clock, so where do you begin?

On a positive note, there are some nice drawings of clock movements and tools!

Although this book is not expensive, it tries to cover all types of movements in few pages, resulting in a lack of adequate detail / explanation for most subjects covered.

Save up your money and consider a college course!

A poor attempt at the genre
We can assume from the title of this book that it is aimed at the complete newcommer to clock repairing, with the intention of providing an introduction to the hobby. While there are some excellent descriptions and diagrams of chiming mechanisms, the rest of the material is either very badly explained or assumes a great deal of existing knowledge in the reader. The spaces allocated to diagrams are wasted pages - sketches of some practical techniques would be far more useful than drawings of tools and pots of metal washers, for example. The book does have some useful parts, but on the whole it fails miserably.