Semester 2, Week 7, Days 1-3 (Friction Jeweling)
This has been a great week so far. I finished up the hairspring adjustments on Monday. All in all, that was a pretty good project that I just wrapped up. […]
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Semester 2, Week 6, Days 4 & 5 (Short Update-Hairsprings and Hand Tools)
Thursday was a good day. I did spend the day doing more hairspring corrections-I think I ended up doing the 6 watches about 3, maybe 4 times throughout the day. […]
Semester 2, Week 4, Days 1-4 (ETA-7001, Int 1980 and more)
Monday was a pretty good day for me. I was able to get the ETA-7001 fully disassembled and cleaned without any issue. It is definitely a nice movement, one that […]
Semester 2, Week 2, Days 4 & 5 (Crib Tool, Jewelry Practices, and Tool Making)
I finished up my pallet arbors on Thursday. The process for doing that is relatively straight forward, in that you just need to reverse the process. You place the now […]
Semester 2, Week 2, Days 1-3 (More Pallet Forks)
Monday was a pretty good day. I spent most of the morning finishing up my shellac work on my pallet forks. I was pretty much finished with my shellac job […]
Semester 2, Week 1 Day 4 & 5 (More Pallet Forks and Jewelry Practices)
Sorry for the delay in the post, my wife and I took a quick trip out of town Friday, and by the time we got back into town Saturday, I […]
Semester 2, Week 1 (Days 1-3) Shellac, Roller Tables and Pallet Forks
School is back in session! As is my blog. I really do want to apologize for the lack of updates towards the end of the semester and over my break. […]
Last Week, Final Project (Colleting and Studding Hairsprings)
This last week has been kind of a whirlwind for me. My last day of class was Wednesday. After class, I took a friend to Dallas so he could catch […]
Back from a Break and a State of the Blog
Sorry for taking a couple weeks off from my schedule, but the last couple weeks were kind of hectic for me. I am reaching the end of the semester (next […]
Week 11, Day 2 (Timing)
Today I had my lecture on how to use the various timing machines we have in class. Timing machines can tell a lot of information about how the watch is […]
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