Sunday, November 17, 2024

Learning the ropes

Bench test! Sully from New York, came to spend 5 days in Le Locle to join us for his bench test.
Sully working on his black polishing 





This is the second week for the new students, exciting and yet daunting with the prospects of the meticulous work in the months to come. After having learnt the very basics with filling and sawing, they have now moved on to learning how to operate the basic machinery such as the drill and lathe. They have now started to go through the processes of tapping and threading, skills which will be used when producing their own watchmaking tools.

Taking a look under the microscope at where to use the parting graver



Aligning the parting graver with the threaded screw (it’s not aligned!)

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