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News Release from: H C Holifield (Oxford) | Subject: Water jet profiling
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 June 2003
Water jet profiles letters for sundials
One of the more unusual contract machining jobs a subcontractor has been asked to do is water jet profiling of letters from copper sheet for Latin inscription on a sundial.
One of the more unusual contract machining jobs that Holifields has been asked to do is water jet profiling of letters from copper sheet for David Harber Sundials, which used them to make a Latin inscription for a new sundial in the grounds of Stowe School, Buckingham Commissioned by the National Trust as a monument to the memory of the explorer, Captain Cook, it comprises a terrestrial globe on a pedestal and replaces the original which disappeared in the early 19th Century
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 3 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Taken from the first line of Horace Book 1 Ode XXVIII, the Latin reads "Te maris et terrae numeroque carentis arenae Mensorem", which translates as "'Twas thine to track the Ocean's endless round, each distant shore, and earth's extremest bound".
David Harber provided Holifields with the words, size of lettering and type face.
It was then the Abingdon subcontractor's responsibility to import the phrase into its CAD/CAM system and prepare a program to profile each letter from 4 mm thick copper on one of its Flow CNC water jet cutting machines.
David Harber Sundials (www.davidharbersundials.com) has specialised in hand-crafting all types of bespoke and non-customised sundials since 1993, when actor Jeremy Irons happened to pass the workshop near Henley-on-Thames and bought the first example that David had made on spec.
Since then he has made hundreds of sundials for customers around the world, from celebrities to multinational companies.
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