FAREWELL MARKUS!

 WEEK 117

Alex, Michael

Origin : Taiwan, Malaysia 

Watchmaking class: Technician & Fullskill 

Current mood: Alex is currently busy working on movements for his repair points. Michael started with a balance staff restoration project and had to measure the dimensions and diameter in order to hand turn the balance staff. Work is still in progress. Hopefully we get better weather soon! 

Renato & David

Origin: Zug, Zürich, Switzerland

Watchmaking class: Fullskill

Current mood: Worked exclusively on the 8mm lathe after last Friday's intro. Did various pieces to practice the various basic cuts (cylindrical/pivot, male/female cone, convex/concave shape plus respective combinations). Was very happy with the performance of the gravers I prepared previously. They cut nice and stay sharp :) The 8mm lathe and hand turning have an artistic touch, as you're shaping the brass without any 'mechanical guidance'. After doing all the pieces of the little 'brass family' (see pics) during the week, I feel that my hand turning skills are quite solid now. I even found some sort of systematic strategy to do the tricky female cones. Next step will be doing the same on steel, which will be interesting for sure... great exercise! (Renato)

This week I worked on finishing the bushings for the pointed head nose vice. I made the bushings 0.03mm bigger than the holes that were drilled in the milling machine. I used the drilling machine to with brass pusher to press the the bushings. After press fitting all of them I milled the surface flat. I also started working on the brass wheel truing guide and the steel angular rule tools. (David)

Francesco, Åsmund & Robert

Origin: Italy, Norway, USA

Watchmaking class: Fullskill 

Current mood: Hi everybody, my name is Francesco and I come from Italy. 

Åsmund and I have been busy with the lathe this week, after the lesson we started to practice with brass cylinders.

At the end of the week Mr. Korpela taught us drilling and tapping with the Shaublin 70, how to set up the Agathon for sharpening gravers and all the instructions needed for the proper use of the profile projector. Robert started the “black polishing” technique with screws. At the end of the week I have just started using the profile projector for my personal school project. Have a nice weekend!

Francesco.

STEP 1:  LAST DAY! (MARKUS)

Last day for Markus! We will miss him very much and hope he will enjoy his new adventures in watchmaking!

STEP 2:  TURNING! (ÅSMUND & FRANCESCO)

Åsmund and Francesco practicing turning with the Schaublin 70.

STEP 3:  GRINDING GRAVERS! (ÅSMUND, ROBERT & FRANCESCO)

We had 3 sessions on the Agathon grinding machine this week.

STEP 4:  TURNING BY HAND! (RENATO)

Renato got introduced to the 8mm lathe and practiced some basic cuts on brass!

STEP 5:  BLACK POLISHING! (ROBERT)

Robert got introduced to the classical art of black polishing!

STEP 6:  SCHOOL WATCH! (FRANCESCO)

Francesco using the profile projector to trace his mainplate that he will use as base for his school watch.

STEP 7:  BOOKS! (RENATO)

Renato brought some more books for everyone to enjoy!

STEP 8:  SHOOTING WATCHES! (ÅSMUND)

Åsmund tried out the school camera to practice some macro shooting on one of his favourite watch.

STEP 9:  RAIN! (EVERYONE)

We suddenly got an extreme amount of rain!

HENRIK's WORDS:

 

From too cold to too wet! for a few hours we got a small lake outside the school! Markus had his last week with us! we will very much miss him and hope he will enjoy the new chapter in his watchmaking life, hopefully he will not forget us and come and visit us from time to time!! A very busy week which I realize is more of a normal for us! Otherwise super creative week and very diverse subjects!! Have a great weekend everyone!