{"id":1322,"date":"2015-11-06T11:41:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T11:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2019-04-24T19:12:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:12:21","slug":"december-3-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"2015 December meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Engine Turning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Philip Whyte Hon FBHI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The final lecture of 2015 will be given by our own Philip Whyte. Philip is this year\u2019s Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers and a Director of Charles Frodsham &amp; Co. He is also a member of the George Daniels Trust Advisory committee and a Vice President of the BHI.<\/p>\n<p>Philip believes you need to physically handle as many clocks and watches as possible in order to fully appreciate what top makers really had achieved.<\/p>\n<p>This lecture on Engine Turning, explores mankind\u2019s ingenuity in creating machines that could, both replicate and repeat, a fixed pattern on an object.<\/p>\n<p>The talk embraces the early days of these mechanisms and continues right up until the typical Rotary and Straight-line machines, which were produced in Birmingham as recently as 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The huge range of objects that were Engine Turned will be explored, and the reasons for doing so, which surprisingly were not always done from a decorative standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will show how Engine Turning was used to great advantage by clock and watchmakers, both in England and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>How, although the overall Engine Turning trade has declined, many contemporary watchmakers are now incorporating it into their products<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the principle of how these machines work, and how one might use them from a practical viewpoint, will be covered. Tool sharpening and tool angles details will be shown for those of a \u2018hands-on\u2019 nature in the audience, and design considerations for those who might be contemplating making something that could be Engine Turned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engine Turning Philip Whyte Hon FBHI The final lecture of 2015 will be given by our own Philip Whyte. Philip is this year\u2019s Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=1322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2015 December meeting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meetings-2014-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}