NEW BLOOD!

  WEEK 114

Willy, Yuriy, Alex, Michael

Origin : Singapore, Canada, Taiwan, Malaysia 

Watchmaking class: Technician & Fullskill 

Current mood: New blood has arrived!! The workshop is more lively than ever before!! Just listening to the filling is giving me the illusion that I am 2 years younger already. Apart from that, we had lectures on calendar and automatic mechanism, casing, how to differentiate crystal as well as the installation. We will learn the making of hour wheel along side with its exam next week. Yep, see you next week!

Renato & David

Origin: Zug, Zürich, Switzerland

Watchmaking class: Fullskill

Current mood: This week i worked on milling the brass anvil. This tool was of 50x50mm diameter and 8mm thick. At first I had to hand file the brass piece. I used a practice piece to test my milling accuracy, then I moved on to the main piece. In the end the piece turned out nicely (David). Renato finished milling the detachable pieces for his design of the head nose vise in the lathe. Then glued them to the main vise parts and will continue with milling them next week. He did his own design/drawing for a balance wheel/bridge 'vise' that will be used for poising. He also did the design of a pallet fork holder. Besides that he turned several base pieces to make custom Horis tool pushers/anvils later on.

Francesco, Asmund & Robert

Origin: Italy, Norway, USA

Watchmaking class: Fullskill

Current mood: Coming soon!

Name: Markus McDonald.
Origin: Stockholm, Sweden. 
Course: 2 years full skill course.
Current mode: This week was fast and intense being focused on practical and theory preperation for the final exam week.

Specically for the practical I did movement work including a vintage Omega 284 to practice the execution for clients watches and real world trouble shooting that would be foundamental to the practical side of the exams. Additionally we also had some small demonstrations such as with the case. For the theory side of this week I would work from 5-7 everyday going through the questions and additionally today we had a lecture where we went through various questions.

All and all it was an intense week but a good week as I covered a lot.

STEP 1:  NEW FULLSKILL STUDENTS! (ASMUND, ROBERT & FRANCESCO)

New Fullskill students Checking the filed bottom side if its straight and flat against a square.

Asmund seems happy with the design of one of his tools!

Robert extracting brass for his tools!

Francesco making his own design on the balance support!

STEP 2:  MILLING! (DAVID)

David practicing milling slots with the Aciera F1!

STEP 3:  MACHINING! (RENATO)

Renato was machining his replaceable jaws for the pointed nose vice! 

STEP 4:  SAWING! (FRANCESCO, ASMUND & ROBERT)

Extracting the 8 mm thick brass plate for larger tools!

Brass is money!

We got 3 squares each for the larger tools!

STEP 5:  BOOKS! (RENATO)

Very nice books from Renato!

STEP 6:  JIG-BORING MACHINE! (RENATO & DAVID)

HENRIK's WORDS:

 

Very busy week! we had 3 new Fullskill students starting on Monday, I was mainly busy introducing them to the workshops and the basics of filing and sawing, I also got some time to introduce David and Renato to the jig boring machine as well as having another session on cases and crystals for the technicians. Very good week!! Have a great weekend everyone!