Atlas 6 inch saved from scrapper

[Rickabilly]

(10-02-2012, 08:47 AM)Mayhem Wrote: I shudder to think of the price tag that dangles from one of those.

Hello Darren,
Do you mean the price of the watch or the lathes?

From what I can tell a lot of these guys make their own lathes and specialist "chucks" the chucks allow the special movement of the workpiece that creates the patterns, one of the chucks I was looking at the other day seemed to take up more that half of the bed length and had five sets of compound gear trains, amazing stuff, and all for a pretty pattern sometimes so small that you need a microscope to see it, like I said a different plane of existence.

The watches by the way, one of those recently sold two years old and never worn $19,000.
yet another plane of existence.

I had a business partner that would think nothing of spending £1,000 on a writing set, always fountain pens which made his writing look like chickens scratching on an ink pad, it is truly unbelievable the things that people with big money will spend it on.

Regards
Rick