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>> Bill Galinsky just can't
seem to decide how he feels
about clocks.
>> I hate 'em all.
I hate 'em all.
I think they are all annoying.
People ask me all the time,
what's my favorite clock.
I hate every one of them
equally.
They all drive me nuts.
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One way or another something's
gonna frustrate you
on every clock.
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>> On the other hand--
>> I like clocks,
but they'd better run.
They'd better do their job.
A clock only does one thing,
and if it doesn't do it at all,
you've missed.
So I'm very passionate
about clocks running right.
[clock ticking]
>> That passion is evident
everywhere you look
in his showroom, workshop,
even his front yard.
[water trickles]
As the owner and operator of
The Duplainville Clock Company,
Bill Galinsky is surrounded
by clocks.
Some of them he collects.
Others have been brought in
for repairs.
But many of them
he's made himself.
[scraping]
>> It's probably around
300 clocks that I've made.
They all blend together.
They really do,
because I'll be working on
sometimes five and six clocks
at the same time.
>> Making clocks is a skill
he's honed over
the last 40-plus years,
one which grew out of
a boyhood curiosity
and fascination with machines.
>> My dad collected some clocks,
not many, and not real specific
kinds of clocks at all.
He just had a few
that he would pick up
here and there.
But he always sent them off
to the family jeweler
and he took care of them.
I was always intrigued
when they'd bring them back
and they'd show the inside all
clean and shiny and bright,
and then it would be running
and I'd get to watch
the gears go.
That's what intrigued me.
>> But after seeing how
other people made clocks,
Bill knew he didn't
want to simply copy
their designs.
So, he just came up
with his own.
>> At 10-years-old I can
remember my dad coming
downstairs and I was working
later into the evening,
and he looked at a piece
that I was making
for one of those clocks.
He looked at me,
looked at the piece,
and says, "One day
you're going to make
a lot of money at this."
And he put it down
and let me go back to work.
So that's when it was that
I knew I wanted to keep going.
>> Two years later,
he was selling
his own line of clocks.
>> I like cuckoo clocks,
and even my shop is modeled
after a big giant cuckoo clock.
But I dare anybody
to come up to someone
and just say, "cuckoo clock"
and get a frown.
>> Most of his inspirations
come from everyday life.
>> I remember the fishing clock
that I have out there in my
hunting and fishing series
just came from watching
my wife in the boat one day.
The way she double-handed
her fishing rod a couple of
times because she had
a good-sized bass on.
You never know.
You just never know.
I see a finished clock
in my head,
and I have to make that clock.
I don't know exactly
how it's going to work
but I can see the outside case,
how it's gonna be,
how it's gonna look
and what it does.
Some of the systems
that I have to devise for that
are pretty complicated,
but that's--
I guess that would be
the most fun part of it myself,
the engineering on the fly.
I start out pretty ambitious
sometimes that I want it to do
eight or ten things,
and it'll only end up doing
five or six or four things.
But it's never a disappointment
as long as it does more than
the last clock that I made does.
That's--
That's the part that
really thrills me.
After I got into
the structuring of clocks
and the cabinetry was pretty
much refined to my own designs,
then the embellishments
got into higher amounts
of carving,
to some of the bigger
grandfather clocks that you see.
Plant scenes, tree scenes,
mountain scenes,
things like that.
That's what I like.
>> It's the larger,
free-standing clocks that have
garnered him the most
attention and acclaim,
including four awards at
the 2014 national convention.
>> Everything is done
as much as possible by hand.
Yes, I have machinery
to help that, but it's still
one piece at a time.
And that's why every one of
my clocks, even in series,
are different.
Things of that nature are
what make my clocks all unique.
>> Despite the occasional
and inevitable frustration,
clocks definitely hold
a special place in
Bill Galinsky's life.
>> I care about 'em
'cause I made them here.
And then they go off
into the world.
And I'll hear from them
once in a while when one--
One'll hiccup now and then,
and I have to go take care of it
or service it or give it
a little advice, coaxing.
>> I love every part of it,
but, ah, I guess
the biggest part of it
is making something
and bringing it to life
the first time.
That's very rewarding.
They really are my kids.