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The above picture illustrates the first use of the "JHE" logo that I am still using to this day. I also used this
logo on several clocks I had repaired back then. The scroll shape of the ends of what is often called the "beat plate"
was a style that I had never seen used before and I felt would look particularly interesting.
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These pictures display a prototype weight driven regulator clock I built twenty-four years ago. The movement is a custom
design following many traditions in the clockmaking field. I wanted to try some design ideas plus explore the effects
of many detail changes to determine the most effective ones for reducing friction and to improve timekeeping accuracy.
Many tests were made to evaluate one change at a time, such as soft vs.hard pivots/pinions and the addition of endstones.
The lessons learned were then used to design the movement pictured on my home page. During one three week period of particularly
stable temperatures, the clock kept time to within 1 1/2 seconds of the National Atomic Clock. I never did get around
to building temperature compensation for the pendulum. Salvaging maple trim from a house being demolished nearby to where
we were living at the time, I built the cabinet which is just over 5 1/2 feet tall. The house had been built around 1885.
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