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 […]
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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. […]
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 […]
Week 10, Days 3 & 4 (Staffing Project, Tribology and Lubrication)
Oh man. The staffing project that I mentioned on Tuesday? Well, for whatever reason, I was having a rough week this week and screwed up big time(s). The watch that […]
Week 10, Days 1 & 2 (More Poising/Staffing Project)
Monday was a pretty good day for me. I was able to get my second group of wheels trued, poised and the balance springs back on. After doing that, I […]
Week 9, Days 3 & 4 (More Poising, A few Different Tools)
I got my final balance wheel poised Wednesday morning. After you finish poising a wheel, you need to put the hairspring back on. It is a relatively straightforward and simple […]
Week 9, Days 1 & 2 (Poising Balance Wheels-Image Heavy)
At the end of last week, we had our introduction to Poising lecture. Poising, in essence is manipulating the weight of the balance wheel in order to ensure that the […]
Week 8, Days 3 & 4 (Staffing and Truing Balance Wheels) Very Picture Heavy
I ended my last post talking about how I received my staking set, and that I was going to be using it for staffing balance wheels (at least for now). […]
Week 8, Days 1 & 2 (Wheel Truing and Staking Set)
All day Monday and most of the day on Tuesday was spent with me doing more wheel truing. I am going to go ahead and retract my statement from last […]
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