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Apprenticeship lineage

Engine Turning

The teacher-to-student record of engine turning as the archive has identified it. 1 record in the register.

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Nodes that carry an archive ID link to their subject page. The tree reads top-down from the earliest teacher to the most recent apprentice.

  • Steven Keen
    engine turner
    • Seth Kennedy MK-0014
      watchmaker and case maker from 2023 (QEST) · Grandeys Place, near Much Hadham, Hertfordshire · AP-0015

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  1. AP-0015 from 2023 (QEST)

    Steven Keen → Seth Kennedy

    Grandeys Place, near Much Hadham, Hertfordshire

    The unusual case: a transmission by deliberate pursuit rather than indenture. Seth Kennedy had no formal apprenticeship - he trained as an engineer and taught himself watchmaking from old texts. In 2023 a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust award funded one-to-one tuition in rose-engine turning with the engine turner Steven Keen (and the conservator Brittany Nicole Cox), the rare case of a self-taught master seeking out the few remaining specialists to take the craft further. Engine turning is on the Heritage Crafts Red List as critically endangered.

    Source: QEST; The England Archive