Finishing Touches

 

 

Week 4

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Workshop A

Students:
    Art, Bernd, Cesar, Joan, Louis Lu, Mun, Nine

    This week Art finished his winding stems, and Louis Lu used hand filing to make a pointed nose vise.

Art's final winding stem

Louis Lu's nose vise

Workshop B

Students:
    Craig, Dunham, Ivan, Louis, Sheikh, Varun

    Ivan and Varun tried out new approaches for finishing ratchet wheels. Ivan perfected a snailing finish, while Varun worked on sunray grinding and tempering the steel to an auburn brown.

 

Ivan's snailing finish

Varun's sunray finish (above) and auburn tempering (below)

    Ivan also completed the design for his school watch, and began the first milling operations on the prototype.

 

Renders of Ivan's design (compiles by Miles Ross)

    Louis spent the week on restorations. First, he re-burnished every pivot on his marine chronometer and lapped a diamond endstone to a flat finish. Casing everything up, it began ticking! Now it's ready for several weeks of timing adjustment.

The diamond endstone before (above) and after (below) lapping

 After the chronometer, Louis also began restoration of a chronograph with an instantaneous minute counter.

Thank you for reading!

Hope to see you again next week!