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Well this is the first watch I've finished since I've been in Portland.I took an adventure close to the beginning of October. I wanted to go to Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) and see Body Worlds III. That was fascinating. Then from there I walked a couple more miles to get to a bunch of antique stores. Stars antiques, most arguably the biggest antique mall in Oregon, well if you count the 3 of them together. Didn't find much anything of interest there, but I did go even further to another antique store and there I found this watch face for a smashing good deal. It had a band on it already, but I got rid of it (because it was fake leather) and put my own band on.
That was like a 12 mile round trip... took the bus back into downtown though.
This is a self winding watch, which means every movement your wrist makes it winds itself a little bit. In the picture of the open watch the half-circle is the winding mechanism. It has 17 jewels, is shock resistant and water proof.
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oh nice! Yeah, I would love to get this one maintainenced so it works properly...
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The only back thing about having them serviced is the cost. Very 'spensive. If you like the self winders, try the Vostok brand. The are cheap, and seem to take a fair amount of abuse. Unfortunately, their cheap price doesn't make them really worth fixing if you kill one. I have one that got to acting up and was going to cost a bit over $100 to fix...Well, being a $50 watch, I figure I might try cleaning/oiling it myself...
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hmmm indeed. I haven't checked on how much it would be to service this guy... I only payed $15 or so at an antique shop
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Oh yeah. I think I'm-a gonna have to order me one of these watches soon. Have you done any for women? Not that I don't like em chunky - it's just I got a little wrist.
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actually, the watch I'm making right now is quite feminine... what's the diameter of your wrist?
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it's about 17cm - or 6 3/4 inches, roughly.
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ok, I usually do make them smaller
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Sweet. I'll be getting back to you shortly then.
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aight, I've got my new one posted. Let me know if it's what you'd like. If so, then note me. If no, then let me know so that I can post it on Etsy
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I really like it, how much is it going for?
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..... sorry to say, due to the lack of responsiveness, I've already sold that watch. It went for $70.oo. To lift your spirits I will say this,
Just remember every watch I make is better then the last and will be more creative. The more I do it the more I can do it. So just keep tabs on me
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Ah well, that one wasn't meant to be then! Sorry about the delay, I'm a bit "all over the shop" at the moment. But be assured, I'll be after you for a watch soon! My poor baby is looking a little worse for wear.
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whats the cercumference of your wrist? they're usually quite small compared to comercial watches. I base them on my wrist (which is fairly small) and put a few holes on either side. Watch 7 is up for grabs in my store. I've also got a couple watches I want to make, but I'm not finding very much time lately...
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hmmm well right now I don't know what I could use from you... actually, can you do a damask like pattern with bronze (yes, not copper), silver and brass? pretty much mokume (so that it doesn't rust) I've been wanting to get me some metal chopsticks and to have some hand-made would be absolutely dashing! 9 1/2" long, 1/4" tapering to 1/2". have some sort of fancy twist or design at the hand end and at the tip have 1" of it rigged or with a threaded texture, for gripping purposes.
The only thing is though, I want to get this watch into a watch repair shop because it's a bit off and requires some lubricating or something... I don't really want to trade or sell things that don't fully work how I intend... unless the person on the other side doesn't mind.
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Oi! cool deal as usual. I agree with eqos - very steampunk. What i'd love to see you do though, is figure out how to fit a little steam whistle on it as an alarm. That is about the only thing that could improve it. Love the watch you used. Definitely will screw up the average mundie (See, I'm learnin'
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hehe, yeah! I'll start doing that when I start to actually make the faces >.<
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Well, first you have to catch a gremlin and pickle him in saltpeter by the light of the third full moon on the 35th of july. Then it really starts getting hard.
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hmmmm... yes ... continue
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Uh, yeeeaah... lessee... 3rd full moon.... 35th july...saltpeter.... oh yeah. Ok, so you do all that, right? so, after you catch and pickle him, then you locate the clock/watch whatever you are using. Oh, by the way, rotate upside down/rightsideup every 12 hours. pickling doesn't so much kill and preserve as knock out and inebriate. but if you don't mix it up, the gremlin starts to wake up and that is noisy and disgusting. (ever see what monkeys do with what comes out of them? yeah, it is MUCH worse with gremlins. Being that they are magically, physical boundaries don't affect that aspect of them.), so keep him asleep. Anyway, get the watch, whatever. What you are gonna wanna do, is after a flip when he settles down again and he's totally out, is, well, stuff him inside whatever timepiece you are using. Feet first. make sure you tie his arms to the clock arms. Leave all the mechanical stuff alone for the time being. once you get that done, make sure you put the face glass back on. In fact, weld it back on, and put a coulple of padlocks on it and recite the "the jesterian spell of binding gremlins that keeps 'em in stuff and whatnot so they can't leave and such." (page 32,456, Verdi's big book of little spells") after that, he should be wide awake. Now, the mechanicle gizmos like gears and springs I told you to leave in there? yeah, he's gonna tear hell outta all that. makes for a more animated display and gives him something to do. (he'll be there awhile) the gremlin is actually going to be what provides the movement for the arms and all the alarm sounds. Sounds great huh? well, there are some drawbacks: the glass on a wristwatch is usually to small to contain them, so I usually use a baby food jar. the whole padlock thing combined with that.... well, lets just say the setup isn't elegant. as for the gremlin, well, you definitely have an interesting face to your watch. The problem being that when he comes to, he'll be pissed a little. A little being synonomous with "he wants to kill you and anyone you ever met" a little. so don't expect him to ever give the right time. or any. and do expect to be woken up at 23 minute intervals every night by ear shattering yelling. (there is no off button for that function unless you add a nine volt battery and switch system to the watch that "tases" him into submission as you are placing him in.) also, gremlins being mischievious to malicious, he will do things such as burp, fart and make passes at men and women and barnyard animals, generally trying to get you into embarassing situations. Oh, yeah. they swear. constantly. I mean like "@#$@%%!&^&*#^#$#&&@$$#^^!!!!!!" for hours on end. They also like to drag their nails along the glas slowly when extremely bored, so you can imagine what that sounds like.
so have fun with all that!
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Oh! is that it? well then! steam whistles aren't to far off!
*starts making list of catching tools and checks out the calender*
wait a second... this is a bunch of BULL CRAP! when does the 3rd full moon come about? 2012?
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2009 I believe. The 35th falls betweenWednesday and Thursday (It's on a Thwednursday) On the "tools" list, don't forget "Professor Antiochus Peasly-Wingate-Applecor the IIIrd's amazing entrapment device for the aquisition of fairies, fay-folk, goblinoids and gremlings (sic) with wonderous accuracy and all haste." The thing is great, if a little noisy. (it's a steam powered net with tambourines bolted on and a fishing rod attachment for "magical creature" bait, so it's not exactly the stealthiest tool out there.) Also, I find for containment and retention issues,
"The mad arab, Abdul Al-hazrad's bag of infinite non-euclidian geometrical interior space for entrapment of sanity" works wonderfully. stick those buggers in there for 5 minutes, and after dealing with Azathoth, the blind idiot god of chaos, which the bag takes you too, they'll be quite co-operative when you let them out. Should keep em' quiet for a good hour or two. Uh, about that bag by the way, DON'T LOOK INSIDE! It is bad. very bad. H.P. Lovecraft did and look what happened. And I did, so it explains why I am how I am.I Still hear the insane, shrill piping of madness........ Happy hunting!
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Ah ha! 2009! Skiped that year for some reason, well that makes it ever more convenient... hmmm gives me a couple years to search out those devices...
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i think Diagon Alley is having a Halloween blowout on gremlin catching equipment. 'Tis the season and all that. As for the bag, I may have a spare I'm using as a trash bin. (haven't taken out the garbage In 13 years. lol)
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Ha! briliant, man! That's what I'm going to have to use it for when I get through with this job, of course, it all depends on whether or not I'm going to make more...
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what is really wonderful about ol' Abdul's bag is that it is great for door-to-door salesman, prosteltizers and bill collectors. all you have to do is greet them and let them come in, let them say some of their sh piel, and ask, "would you like one of my fancy european chocalates? feel free to reach in and grab one." After a lound sucking noise and some muffled distant screaming, you never have a problem with them again. The drawback is that it doesn't work on tax collectors. I think they are to closely aligned with the outer reaches of the watched dimensions, and yog-sothoth and azathoth don't seem to care to take them back. Even ol Nyarlahotep stuck his head out one day after I tried that trick and gave me a stern dressing down. mentioned something about "having enough problems in here, what with all the chaos, that they don't need me sullying their dimension with filth like that" or some such. Really, he was quite agitated, the poor guy. I don't really blame him. So the bag does have it's drawbacks. Oh, when you go shopping, don't forget to get a copy of "Dr. Lars-Olaf Vanderhussenhusrtenbratwurstshire's Field guide to goblins, trolls,orcs, gremlins and golems and other warped earth elementals of the nothern latitudes." (Random house publishes it, I believe). Can't very well hope to catch a mechanicle gremlin in the woods. might wind up finding a rather pissed off poison ivy golem or the dreaded and reviled emo-orc. Those are the worst. They make you so depressed with their hair combed over one eye and utter despondancy at their parents that you have to cut yourself to pieces with a razor stolen from their dad. Many brave sekers have met such an unfortunate fate, only to be found as a desicated corpse, with a face smeared with eyeliner and poorly dyed hair. Horrible.
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Oh my! How horrible indeed! Well good thing I have Powels City of Books only 10 minutes walk away. I'm sure to find Dr. Lars-Olaf Vanderhussenhusrtenbratwurstshire book there, amongst their 4 floors of books. Now to continue the adventure.
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Hey, can you grab me a new copy of that one too? Last time I was out in the field the copy I have got gnawed on by a herd of feral lawn gnomes. It's disgusting. There is paint crust all over it along with fiberglass shavings. Pretty yuck, all that buisness.
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Aye, I'll check to make sure they don't only have one. You know how those rare books can be...
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Yeah. I only have three pages of "the Grand Grimoire of the Wizard Patroclus Anzargy, what contains 74,589 pages in thirten abridged Volumes and some notes and stuff he doodled." And of course, one page is a title page, one is the publisher's information page and the last actually contains the spell, "For The attainment, posession and retention of all enlightenment and love of the universe", the problem being that the wizard in his extreme old age and senility apparently scrawled all over it in what looks like butterscotch pudding, I believe. So consequently it is as clear as a CIA report on top secret information. Every time I try a new permutation in the spell Something worse than the last time happens. I just finally got rid of the smell of burning cat hair and carpet from the last attempt. (don't ask, I used to have three cats, but now I have two. all I'll say is that if you ever so much as suspect that the hounds of tindalos are trying to breach the angles, just stop whatever it is you are doing. It gets worse after that.)
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oooo! really?! that page has to be worth a fortune... even if it is rather bloody vague... mmm butterscotch... I like butterrum more though 
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Well, I don't know about value. Apparently, he used whatever paper was at hand when penning said grimoire. Throughout his life (last I hear he died when he was 2,312 years old. Accidentally ate chinese food towards the end. Turns out he was allergic to MSG. That and the fact that the ambulance that picked him up to take him to the hospital blew up enroute. The allergy just caused him to violently sneeze. The problem was he was violently sneezing Hellfire, shards white hot iron, and magma, which hit the gas tank. You can figure the rest.) At any rate, apparently, he mastered the working aforementioned at the height of his power, but it was in his "experimental period" period, as the magical encyclopaedias note it. Consequently, he was using all sorts of various bits of bark, twine, embroidery and bathroom cleaning products. My copy appears to be paper towels of some sort. The worse part is that not all of it looks like butterscotch pupping. There are other colors that I haven't and won't investigate all too deeply. Because of this and the lack of clarity, even though the spell is rumored to be one of the most powerful and wonderful ever created, nobody is really quiet clamoring to get it. plus I didn't mention the odor.....
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eewww! well! why didn't you mention it?! If you want to live forever, read up on the book "Breaking the death habit" by Leonard Orr. Pretty good, I've only gotten into the first chapter of it, my Mum's read the rest (which is why I am now able to read it, since I'm moved out) Another good book is the Ascension Manuel... forgot the name of the guy who wrote that book, some middle-eastern origin lad I believe. He did a whole series on it evidently, so I don't really know what the other books are about.
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Leonard Orr. Sounds like an interesting chap. The friend I work for has similar Ideas about absorbing bad psychic energy. I tend to believe it. He's been making it a point to cut away negative influences. Even people he has known for years. Ever since I got away from bad situations at home, the army and losers in general, I've noticed it gets better as far as life goes and easier to deal with things. It's the reason I started posting to deviant. I spend probably far too much time by myself by most people's estimation, so this at least let's me meet and mentally engage other interesting types. The fact that I act like a buffoon at any given time has always been a consistent point in my life, It just isn't covering for anything anymore. Thanx for the names. Next time I'm in a book store I'll have to dig around. -Thanx for putting up with my incessant rambling, by the way. most of the time I either say nothing or keep it short and sweet. Here, I just act the fool, lol.
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Ah! Thank you! Iss a pleasure getting sources and ideas from you hehe. Though the books I read off are alot easier to find in a bookstore 
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at least someone derives something useful from my inane ramblings, lol. Other than "I'm dealing with a serious headcase", what ideas could you possibly draw from me, lol?
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lol well, Ideas on how to make rather peculiar watches
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Lol. as I come up with more, I'll let you know.
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ooh, you got to see Body Worlds? I saw one of its knock-offs a while ago, which was still really cool.
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oh yeah! it was awe-full!
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when? you mean at the end of september?
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hehe noo, I'm in Portland, and that was before I moved here. I was in Utah. But yeah, I did pretty good, for 2 weekends anyways. I've still got most everything though.
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Aw D= You could always try NY XD if you had the scratch to get there x.x;; But I do know your merchandize would work in the countless number and variety of faires we have here @.@;
But keep doing what cha do best, laddy
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