1/28/24 – 3:06am

While working towards accurately dating the year, or era of manufacture of Slocomb Micrometers, there’s no easier way than to look at the thimble.

This weekend’s main priority is to document and photograph every different micrometer thimbles, and start classifying appx date ranges of manufacturing.

Photographing the cylindrical thimble is no easy task. It starts with the base image, and then the thimble is rotated for the next image, making sure that everything is kept in place, and hasn’t moved. After which, up to ten pictures are taken of the thimble. Next is the scaling, and cropping. Then Layering, and blending transparencies along the edges, and on, and on it goes.

It takes a lot of work for each image, taking around 45 minutes to complete one.
While working towards accurately dating the year, or era of manufacture of Slocomb Micrometers, there’s no easier way than to look at the thimble.

This weekend’s main priority is to document and photograph every different micrometer thimbles, and start classifying appx date ranges of manufacturing.

Photographing the cylindrical thimble is no easy task. It starts with the base image, and then the thimble is rotated for the next image, making sure that everything is kept in place, and hasn’t moved. After which, up to ten pictures are taken of the thimble. Next is the scaling, and cropping. Then Layering, and blending transparencies along the edges, and on, and on it goes.

It takes a lot of work for each image, taking around 45 minutes to complete one.

Creating this collection of thimble stampings is crucial to the accuracy of dating micrometers, and also offers an insight into the workings of JT Slocomb.

So without taking up any more of your time, here is the archive page for thimble stampings:

https://jtslocomb.org/quick-information/thimble-stampings/

This location on the site will be changed soon. It’s current location is just temporary for the time being.


This is quite the undertaking of work to add on top of everything else in the archive, but it is well worth the effort to provide this resource to anyone and everyone.

For now, enjoy the weekend.

Cheers.