In Search of Time Re-Purposed

""...and they shall beat their travelling-alarm-clock watch-springs into trimming tools"...Do you still have an old fold-up alarm clock of the wind-up variety? You're probably never going to use it again,right? If you can get at the spring inside [it's not at all difficult- unscrew a few screws and you're in] and send it to me, I'll make you a trimming tool from part of it [and keep the rest to make tools for myself and with students from Tel Hai]- do we have a deal?