Well,
I got to the Smithsonian (I will post pictures later as I forgot the cable to upload photos) and headed to the two clocks that I wanted to see. Both are from the 1800s. I will spare some of the details until I get the pictures uploaded but I did notice something that I was kind of happy to see. I noticed the lack of perfection.
I'm not slamming on the original makers of the clock but sometimes when you are first starting out doing something, you feel that there is no way you could ever get to the level of those around you. Well, I first saw these clocks about 3 years ago. Seeing them again today I noticed the slight imperfections in the forging. Just little things but it made me feel a bit better about my own stuff. I'm nowhere near the skills of the clockmakers that made those clocks but I'm getting there.
On a final note, saw a presidential motorcade. The gentleman with the machine guns riding in the van with the windows down got my attention...
A chronicle of my attempts to create an early clock using only traditional techniques.
Sunday, January 22, 2006
A different perspective
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I felt like that when I recently took another look at the Pennsylvania longrifles there- a couple of years after I built my first couple of guns for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
BTW-I have spent an awful lot of time in DC the past three years--- Need to know any good restaurants in the Clinton/Waldorf area? (Mama Stella's) Want an introduction to the Barony of Dun Carraig down by Pax River NAS? Want to know what Metro stations to avoid? (Anacostia, Congress Heights)-- I can help!
Luckily I am in the Arlington area and other than yesterday I probably will not be using the Metro. The one exception is that I'm thinking about trying to get over to the cemetary to take some pictures of Lee's house and that area. An irony of history... The north trying to punish Lee by turning the flower garden into the graveyard and instead the property is the most hallowed ground in the country.
I always thought that was fitting- the site ends up honoring all military dead. I think Lee would have approved if he could see it today...
BTW- There's a great Burrito joint in old Arlington that I can recommend....
Also, while you're there, see if you can get a tour into the Pentagon- in the lobby area just before the security gates, is the podium and pentagon oval-sign-thingie on the blue curtain- this is the backdrop that the reporters use when they report "live from the Pentagon", because they don't have to try and get the camera crews past the security gates... ...it's a great place to get a photo of yourself to show back home!
(if you do get inside, some of the coins that I design are for sale in the "Mall of the Americas", at the back counter for Northwest Terrirorial Mint).
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