Kicking Around Your Watchmaking Lair Episode 6 https://offhours.show/podcast-player/494/ep6.mp3Chris and Jon sit down to talk about some of the tools, gadgets, and accessories they find particularly handy to have around the shop, then round things out with some entertaining reading recommendations for the holidays. Overcast An excellent podcast player for iOS, by Marco Armentovercast.fm Forecast A powerful podcasting tool & blazing fast MP3 encoder, created by Marco Armentovercast.fm Bose QC35 Chris’ favourite pair of wireless headphonesamazon.com iMars Bluetooth Remote The Bluetooth remote Jon uses to control audio playback from his benchbanggood.com Amazon Echo In addition to the iMars Bluetooth remote, Jon uses an Echo for hands-free audio control, timers, & the odd bit of conversational computing around the watch labamazon.com Magnum Boots The boots Chris trusts to keep his feet safe around the shopamazon.com Nickel Tweezers Jon’s favoured tweezers for finer workamazon.com Bronze Tweezers Jon’s go to tweezers for a lot of watch assembly tasksschurch-asco.com Starrett 6″ Scale Chris’ favourite ruleramazon.com Mitutoyo Digital Caliper High quality, digital calipers are a must have around the shopamazon.com Mitutoyo Digital Micrometer For taking really fine measurements, with a digital readoutamazon.com ZF2000 Mainspring Extractor An excellent tool to help keep the energy stored in a wound mainspring from injuring you, the barrel, or the mainspring itself when removing it from the barrel drum of a watchoffhours.show Canned Air Jon uses a can of compressed air to pop the cover off of closed watch barrels, to keep them from deformingamazon.com Barrel Closer A handy aid for closing watch barrelsyoutube.com Knew Concepts Mk IV Saw One of the best coping saws money can buyamazon.com Lee Marshall The creator of the Knew Concepts sawknewconcepts.com Laser Gold Saw Blades The saw blades Chris uses with his Knew Concept sawriogrande.com Ruby Files A set of ruby files Jon uses for fine workamazon.com Artifex Wheels Artifex wheels are superb for surface preparation, prior to final polishingbocks.ch Surgeon’s Brush These soft, sensory brushes make quick work of cleaning fine dirt & debris from your handsamazon.com Nitrile Gloves A staple item in any workshopamazon.com Nitrile Finger Cots A staple item for assembling high grade watchesamazon.com Nitecore P12 Flashlight Chris’ go to flashlightamazon.com Suprabeam Q1 Penlight The flashlight Jon carries in his backpack, useful for finding small parts now & thenamazon.com Benchmade Knife Chris’ pocket knife of choiceamazon.com Victorinox Caseback Knife Jon has a number of these Victorinox pocket knives, from different watch brands, useful for opening snap backs on watch casesamazon.com Blackwing Pencil Chris’ favourite pencilamazon.com Stalogy Notebook Chris’ favourite notebookwonderpens.ca KOR One Water Bottle The water bottle Robert Downey Jr.’s character, Tony Stark, uses around his shop in the film Iron Man amazon.com VOSS Water Bottle Jon’s water bottle of choice when he’s at the benchamazon.com Artemis Chris’ recommendation for an audiobook to take in over the holidaysamazon.com Ready Player One Jon’s recommendation for an audiobook to take in over the holidaysamazon.com Watchmaking The definitive book on making watches, written by George Danielsamazon.com
