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Offline ibby7

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Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« on: May 30, 2011, 07:37:14 PM »
Hello everyone.

Iv just stumbled across this forum by chance. I am a trainee watchmaker from the UK. I came here hoping to gain some valuable knowledge about metal working. I have a lathe and have made small watchmaking projects and have a bag full of questions and ideas I would like to share. To be honest I havent even glanced through the forum Iv just signed up and posted this, I got a feeling this place is going to be great. I am a regular on a UK based watch forum so if any ref's are needed, its cool.

So off i go to delve into the threads...bye!

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Offline HS93

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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2011, 08:38:30 PM »
Hi, welcome from someone else from the North west (merseyside).

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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2011, 10:36:33 PM »
Hiya Ibby  :wave:

Welcome to the collective :borg:

I would LOVE to be a watchmaker. There is a 2 year training program here I wouldn't mind getting into...

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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2011, 11:50:09 PM »
Hi are you from the old Centre for watch makers ?


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Offline Bogstandard

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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2011, 12:15:48 AM »
Welcome Ibby, from a more civilised part of the North West (we speak English in this part). :lol:

You have come to the right forum here, as long as it is legal, we will discuss and share almost anything.


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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2011, 01:13:37 AM »
Hi Ibby :wave: welcome to the forum  :mmr:


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Offline PekkaNF

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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2011, 02:06:10 AM »
Hi,

Watchmaking is black art to me, but it is intriguing.

Funnily enogh I can't see any thick accent on your writing - what are these guys mocking about? :)

Warm welcome,
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Offline John Swift

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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2011, 04:27:22 AM »


 Hi Ibby ,
 
welcome , another member in the North West

my old infant school was opposite the former Lancashire Watch factory in Prescot :-

 http://history.knowsley.gov.uk/show_photo.msql?reference=PT146&search=32

I'm not into watch making but can admire the skills involved

 John

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Offline Bogstandard

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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2011, 04:51:21 AM »
Pekka,

In just this small part of our fine fair land, we have very many local dialects, which if you have never sampled it in the flesh, there is no way you could ever even attempt to understand it.

Just 20 kms from where I live (in the Potteries, Stoke on Trent area), even I have great difficulty understanding what they are saying, even though they still class it as spoken 'English'.

This is the same all over the UK, there are many thousands of local dialects.
Over the centuries, we have been invaded by so many other countries, depending on where they came ashore, the local people incorporated part of the foreigners language into their own local spelling and pronunciation.

There are certain areas of the central and north west of the UK, that is classed the most pure version of real spoken English, purely because the invaders thought we were not worth bothering with, so never came that far inland.


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Offline PekkaNF

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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2011, 07:05:59 AM »
Bogs, I had that coming. Looong time ago I stayed in Chester some time. Got some time before I got used to that dialect - then one day some Scotich guys apeared on the dinner table....I could not get a damn thing!

We have same thing here, although to a little lesser decree. Least if I'm trying to figure what Benny Hill blurts out. Incidently, over in Chester, One fellow called home and we offered to leave the room (only telefones then....) he tallked to family, but none of us could any, it suposetly was Finnish, but if you don't talk Cocney, you don't get Rauma-dialect either :)

Anyway, I'll find all dialects as a positive divercity. People from UK NW seem all have that quiet pleasant sense of humor.

Pekka
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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2011, 10:07:39 AM »
Welcome Ibby :beer:
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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2011, 02:26:13 PM »
Hi and welcome  :wave:
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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #12 on: June 01, 2011, 06:40:43 PM »
haha, hello fellas! Im from Liverpool, L8 if you know where that is, very rough.

Iv worked hard to get away from it all and worked my way up, Iv just got myself onto a graduate watchmaking program so its looking all good.
I appreciate the warm welcome, thank you. I must admit my interests do not lie in model making, I do like to network and discuss types of projects that would benefit a watchmaker. That includes fine polishing aswel.

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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #13 on: June 01, 2011, 08:39:35 PM »
there all posh around there, they all drive BMW's with blacked out windows  :lol: :lol: go up parley about once a week comming out of liverpool, boy has it changed, only ever whent clubing around there once years ago when I was still in the building trade, ended up in a house getting charged 6d to get in , you dont want to know the rest, pre Heseltine by the way.

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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2011, 06:15:48 AM »
HI and welcum
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Offline PekkaNF

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Re: Hello from the UK, Northwest.
« Reply #15 on: June 02, 2011, 06:53:50 AM »
Quote from: ibby7 on June 01, 2011, 06:40:43 PM
I must admit my interests do not lie in model making, I do like to network and discuss types of projects that would benefit a watchmaker. That includes fine polishing aswel.

An I must admit, that clock making is pretty far from my interests, but I'm sure there are many techiques that I would find facinating and useful.

Pekka
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