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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, January 7, 2010
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Hebert even still has
basement workshop con- his first ever leather tool
tains 150 varieties of belt for his electrician’s
clock movements, all tools, which he recalls
suspended from the ceil- with a laugh that he
ing, hundreds of antique wore so proudly that his
clocks and a reference co-workers kidded him
library which would be about it for years.
the envy of any clock And he still mows his
maker. own lawn and uses a
It also houses special hooded snow blower to
equipment he uses in keep his driveway and
his work, including the garage area open during
world’s only pinion cut- the winter months.
ting machine (which Not only is he healthy
was made for him sev- enough to have made a
eral years ago by Ed complete recovery from
Ferguson of Deerfield), a broken hip four years
a special tool for testing ago, but his eyesight is
cuckoo clocks, a bushing still strong enough to en-
machine and a precise able him to see the small
milling machine, as well gears he is working with
as a separate area filled and deftly take apart
with woodworking tools. and reassemble even the
“It’s just a hobby for most complicated clock
me, but I have equip- movements.
ment that’s 10 times “My eyesight is good on
better than you’ll find things up tight, which
in the top clock making your really need to have
and repair shops,” says to do this work,” says
Hebert, who says that Hebert.
he got the space for his One of his current
woodworking shop when projects involves a large
his wife Aschilline, bet- grandfather clock that is
ter known as Archie, so old that it has wooden
retired from her job as gears, making it close to
an inspector with Norton 200 years old.
Pike, paid for an addi-
Clayton Hebert with parts he has made for the clock that he is making.
“ C l o c k c o m p a n i e s
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stopped using wooden
gears in 1840, when they
tion to their home which went to brass, so any
gave her more working thing with wooden gears
space next to their small has to be at least 170
kitchen. The basement years old,” says Hebert,
created beneath the ad- a member of the Granite
dition proved an ideal State Timekeepers who
spot for his woodworking hold regular meetings he
tools. attends in Sutton.
The couple heats their He not only repairs
home with a large wood clocks but he is also
stove in the basement making one himself, hav-
and keep a large supply ing milled every piece of
of neatly stacked fire- it on his own tools. “It’s
wood in the ground level been at least a three year
entryway and stay busy project but I’m getting
with a countless variety closer every day,” says
of outdoor projects year Hebert.
round, including an ad- Hebert marvels at the
dition they built at the craftsmanship of the
rear of their garage for German cuckoo clocks
an electrical workshop. displayed in his base-
ment, including a kiss-
ing cuckoo in which a
boy and a girl emerge
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