VISITORS!

 WEEK 199

Team A

Origin: Sweden, The Philippines & Taiwan

Name: Daniel, Miguel, & David

Watchmaking class: Fullskill

Current mood:

This week we focused on making our tools.

Daniel practiced using the milling machine and lathe milling attachment to make his pointed hand vice.

David used the milling machine to prepare his polishing tripod and his brass anvil.

And I focused on making my brass wheel truing guide, my steel angular rule and finishing the base of my balance bridge holder.

- Miguel

Team B

Origin: Japan/Switzerland & Canada

Name: Tetsu & Dean

Watchmaking class: Fullskill 

Current mood:

This week, Henrik introduced Tetsu and Dean to gear train and jeweling.  This included making adjustments to the barrel to ensure negative end shake removed.  Also, the straightening of wheels was covered to ensure flatness and concentricity.  Jeweling was covered with how to use the Horia tool to remove, install, and adjust their heights.  In addition to this, wheel end shake, clearance, division, and side shake was introduced.  After the lesson, Tetsu and Dean applied what they learned to their seven school movements to then show their work to Henrik for review and corrections, if necessary.  It’s nice to be learning this skills while assembling and adjusting these movements.

Have a great weekend everyone!



Tetsu and Dean

Team C

Origin: Switzerland, Norway & USA

Name: Renato, David, Francesco, Åsmund & Robert

Watchmaking class: Fullskill 

Current mood:

Hello everyone, this week has been really busy. 

I made a special pallet fork holder entirely machined made.

It was a really nice exercise that helped to keep my micro-mechanics skills current, I turned and milled in the lathe, bored in the jig-borer, milled the platform in the Aciera, drilled and tapped.

Then I finished it with straight-graining,

 frosting and plated it.

Then I kept on going with the technician program, this week I adjusted the division between the pallet fork and the escape wheel.

See you next week,

Francesco.

Team D

Origin: Finland

Name: Xinying

Watchmaking class: Technician

Current mood: n/a

STEP 1: TASTER COURSE! (LOUISE)

We also had Louise from New York taking the taster course!

STEP 2: PANCAKES! (EVERYONE)

As we had a lot of maple syrup from Dean we decided to have a Saturday pancake breakfast, delicious! 

STEP 3: GEARS! (DEAN & TETSU)

Dean and Tetsu learn to check the condition of gear train wheels and truing them in the flat!

STEP 4: WATCHES! (DEAN)

Dean got one of his watches apart!

STEP 5: TOOLS! (XIN)

As Xin is studying the escapement he got some vintage escapemeters!

STEP 6: TOOL MAKING! (DAVID, DANIEL & MIGUEL)

Miguel, David and Daniel continue working on their tools!

STEP 7: VISITORS! (JOE & NICK)

It was really a great highlight of the week to see Joe and Nick again after so many years!

STEP 8: TOOLS! (FRANCESCO)

Francesco made his fancy pallet fork holder for shellacing!

HENRIK's WORDS:

 

 

The temperature stabilized at around 0°C and no more snow fall, partially windy week though! Francesco, Asmund, Robert and Xin continued with the escapement course doing endshakes and divisions, Daniel, David and Miguel continued practicing machining! Renato and David L. learn the basics of timing and had a balance/hairspring & timing trial exam! Tetsu and Dean got introduced to the gear train of a mechanical watch! We also had Louise from New York doing the taster course which was nice! We also had the luck of having Joe and Nick from England visiting on Friday, Joe was part of the first graduating class and Nick works together with Joe and is taking the lapping and polishing class in WOSTEP it was really nice to see Joe and Nick again after so many years!! It was a super interesting week! Have a nice weekend everyone!