I remember building one of these with my Pop back in the day. We also tried the visible engine, this see through engine that I don’t think I ever finished. Come to think of it, I think was too antsy to finish any of this stuff. I suppose I can wait to see if Kasper might get a kick out of it.
Product Page [MamodSpares]
Last Night for WWR Reader’s Survey
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Review - Casio G-Shock G7500-1V
From WristWatchReview.com - I had strayed from the quartz digital path in the last few years thanks to my obsession with mechanicals, but I’ve always thought I’d like to return to the fold. Last week I received two Casio watches, a Pathfinder and a G-Shock, and I am happy to say that I’m pleasantly surprised.
Now I know you all like your ETAs and Big Bangs, but a watch like the G-Shock G7500-1V is pretty sassy little number that can help road warriors stay awake on the red-eye and might survive a nasty turn at the baggage claim.
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It is the end, my only friend… Nikon has dumped their film camera line and is focusing only on digital. I mean Paul Simon sang about his Nikon camera, not his Nikon 8-megapixel CMOS sensor. But all good things must end.
End of an Era [Treehugger]
Omega 1932 Pocket Watch - Olympic-tastic
From WristWatchReview.com - Omega is has created a 1932 pocket watch in honor of the Olympic games. Omega, as wel all know has, been the official timekeeper of the Olympics 22 times, including 2006 in Toronto. This watch is a single-button chronometer with blued hands and a sexy retro look that makes me squeal.
From WristWatchReview.com - Blancier just created a new in-house manufacture, the Regulator. It’s essentially a big minutes hand movement with seconds and hours at 9 and 3 o’clock, respectively, and it’s all done in-house. I love me some Blancier, and this thing goes for a little less than $1500, which is excellent for a completely custom movement and watch. I have one of the first pieces and it’s beautiful.
Blancier - Lottermann & Söhne
1st Annual WristWatchReview.com Reader Survey
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Not too many knife grinders in the streets of New York anymore, but the Times does a great profile of one of the last of the breed.
Mr. Pallotta grew up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and Maspeth, Queens, in a milieu where knife grinders were anything but unfamiliar. Both his grandfathers immigrated in the 1920’s from a scissors-producing village in the south-central Italian region of Abruzzi, and both made their living as knife grinders, roving Manhattan and Brooklyn with their equipment on pushcarts. By the 1950’s and 60’s, more than 20 of Mr. Pallotta’s uncles, brothers and cousins were sharpening cutlery in New York out of their own trucks. “Whenever I seen a scissor-grinding truck,” Mr. Pallotta recalled, “I knew that was a paisan of mine.”
But in the 50’s and early 60’s, most grinders shifted from sharpening knives to renting sharpened sets to customers, and the cutlery-grinding trucks began to disappear. “When most of the companies went into the rental end, some of the guys said, ‘No, I’ll keep doing it out of my truck,’ ” said Mark Polla, a third-generation grinder who is president of Nella Brothers, a cutlery rental company. “But the times really passed them by.”
Bells Clanging, a Tradesman Comes Home [NY Times - Free Registration Required]
Kodak, which we all remember from our ill-spent youth, has changed from the Classic “Techno K” to some sort of blobby new look. Things change, I suppose.
Kodak unveils new logo [Rochesterdanc.com]
