1. Tricks of the Trade: small scale techniques, tools, and products that improve your clockmaking while saving you time and money. Useful throughout the workshop.
2. Sharpening: razor-sharp chisels, knives, and hand planes are essential to accomplish much of what follows in the workshop. Quick and easy sharpening at minimum cost.
3. Movements: how to select, purchase, and install both mechanical and quartz movements. Solving pendulum problems. Use of the electronic timing machine and the ear to regulate mechanical movements. Installation of chimes, gongs, and bells.
3a. Hands: how to select, install, and, if necessary, modify hands to fit your clock.
3b. Dials: how to select, obtain, install and/or make a dial that compliments your clock.
4. Case Construction and Design: “Put it together so you can take it apart” - how and why.
4a. Door Frames: creating splined miter corners. Use of special glues and clamps.
4b. Hinges: selection, truing up, and installation. How to make your own.
4c. Locks and Turn-Catches: installation of Terry and English locks, stirrup catches, etc.
4d. Finials: how to select, obtain, and install appropriate styles.
4e. Fretwork: how to design and fabricate the intricate “tops” for some clocks.
4f. Moldings: how to design. make, and install decorative moldings.
5. Sanding: use of random-orbit, disc, belt, and 16/32 drum sanders. Accurate hand sanding.
6. Veneering: how to make perfect seams. Taping, gluing, sanding, and finishing. Inlays.
7. Finishing: how to use fillers, dye and pigment stains, clear coats, etc. Avoiding odors, fire, and health hazards. How to emphasize figure and grain.
8. Casting: creating your own eagle finials, sidearms, bezels, and other clock-case accessories when the originals are too expensive or no longer obtainable.
9. Gilding: how to apply 23-karat gold leaf to castings and wood case parts for decoration as was done on clocks of the 1800's.
10. Soldering: how to neatly and securely fasten metals together, especially brass.
11. Turnings: how to turn half-columns, fInials, pillars, etc. Subcontracting of same.
12. Shop Equipment and Layout: a clockmaker's viewpoint of various hand and power tools, blades and bits, clamps, wiring, flooring, drop ceilings, etc. Lighting and dust collection (especially important to clockmakers). Heating and cooling the shop. Sources for useful tools and products.
13. Wood Selection: learn what woods are historically appropriate or work best for clocks. How to select for figure, grain, stability and price. Processing from storage of rough-sawn boards to dimensioned stock ready to be cut into case parts.
14. Signature: why and how to appropriately display the clockmaker’s identity, the date, and other pertinent information, in or on the clock.
15. Patterns: access to my clock patterns, plans, jigs, notes, sketches, and miscellaneous research.
16. Sources: relevant books on American clock history, design, and construction. Where to obtain quality clock plans and what to expect.
Clock museums, organizations and schools. Sources for kits (and their pros and cons). How and where to sell your work. Obtaining publicity.

Attendees will complete and take home a small door frame that they have mitered, splined, veneered (in herring-bone pattern with random-stripe mahogany), filled, stained, and finished. Each student will gild and take-home a finial or other clock ornament. Finally, each attendee will receive a 100+ page notebook presenting tools, techniques, and sources useful to clockmakers.