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    A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material
    A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material
    A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material
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    A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material

    By Eugene Edward Hall

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material - Eugene Edward Hall

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      Eugene E. Hall

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      Title: A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting

      Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New

      Staffs from the Raw Material

      Author: Eugene E. Hall

      Release Date: January 8, 2007 [EBook #20317]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A TREATISE ON STAFF MAKING ***

      Produced by Sigal Alon, Chris Curnow, Fox in the Stars and

      the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's notes:

      Some minor typographical errors have been corrected.

      The author's spelling has been retained.

      A TREATISE

      ON

      STAFF MAKING

      AND

      PIVOTING

      CONTAINING COMPLETE DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING

      AND FITTING NEW STAFFS FROM

      THE RAW MATERIAL

      EUGENE E. HALL

      WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS

      CHICAGO:

      Hazlitt & Walker, Publishers

      1910

      CONTENTS.

      STAFF MAKING AND PIVOTING.

      CHAPTER I.

      To produce a good balance staff requires more skill than to produce any other turned portion of a watch, and your success will depend not alone on your knowledge of its proper shape and measurements, nor the tools at your command, but rather upon your skill with the graver and your success in hardening and tempering. There are many points worthy of consideration in the making of a balance staff that are too often neglected. I have seen staffs that were models as regards execution and finish, that were nearly worthless from a practical standpoint, simply because the maker had devoted all his time and energy to the execution of a beautiful piece of lathe work, and had given no thought or study to the form and size of the pivots. On the other hand, one often sees staffs whose pivots are faultless in shape, but the execution and finish so bungling as to offset all the good qualities as regards shape. To have good tools and the right ideas is one thing, and to use these tools properly and make a practical demonstration of your theory is another.

      I shall endeavor to take up every point in connection with the balance staff, from the steel to the jewels, and their relation to the pivots, and I believe this will then convey to the reader all the necessary points, not only as regards staffs, but pivots also, whether applied to a balance or a pinion staff.

      It may be argued, and we often do hear material dealers advance the theory, that to-day, with our interchangeable parts and the cheapness of all material, it is a waste of time to make a balance staff. To the reader who takes this view of the situation I simply want to say, kindly follow me to the end of this paragraph, and if you are still of the same opinion, then you are wasting your time in following me farther. For a material dealer to advance this theory I can find some excuse; he is an interested party, and the selling of material is his bread and butter; but the other fellow, well I never could understand him and possibly never shall. When we seriously consider the various styles and series in old model and new model, of only one of the leading manufacturers of watches in this country, to say nothing of the legion of small and

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