I have set up this site for the interest of fellow model engineers, amateur clockmakers and home shop machinists. To all those who have an irresistible urge to direct their creative energies into making and crafting models and tools. Most of us love to own and look after tools that we use and have them of the best quality. We look after them and treasure them. We get wonderful satisfaction from making them and owning them.

A brief word or two about me. I am a mechanical engineer and work for a construction company in the water and wastewater and power generation industry. My home town is Sydney, Australia. My wife and I have two children aged 22 and 20 so I am kept busy running a household with only a small amount of time permitted for workshop activities!

Over the years I have made a number of steam engines, a traction engine ("Minnie"), internal combustion engines, tools and other knick-knacks and having finished off an 8 day wall clock to a design by John Wilding, I am now working on a "Watchmakers Regulator" to a design by Alan Timmins. A construction serial of this appeared in the "Horological Journal" in 1981.

My interest in models has changed quite a bit since I first started out in the hobby. Having built a number of miniature steam and IC engines which were run a few times and then left on a shelf to collect dust, and a half-built locomotive in which I lost interest, I was diverted to follow up something more practical and useful. This is not to say that I have any regrets - I gained a lot of satisfaction and learnt many skills from those projects. Tools and clocks seem to fill the bill nowadays. Clocks have the advantage that they can become heirlooms. Perhaps they'll still be around in a hundred years time if they are made well enough that people want to look after them. A chance at immortality?

Re-visit soon for updates. 25th April 2012.