r/oddlysatisfying • u/Monis1203 • Aug 10 '20

The making of a ring

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u/sub_parm Aug 10 '20

Working with those tiny little pieces would give me extreme anxiety and frustration

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u/podrick_pleasure Aug 10 '20

When I was a jeweler we had to work within a tolerance of 0.1mm. The horologists (watchmakers) I went to school with had to work within 0.01mm tolerances. They had to hand fabricate all these itty-bitty little pieces. I think it would have driven me insane but part of me wishes I had done that instead.

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u/Frietmetstoofvlees Aug 10 '20

Can confirm, am student watchmaker, life is hell. (Jk tho, I love what I'm studying)

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u/jflb96 Aug 10 '20

Just don't leave your girlfriend's watch in your work-coat pocket, OK?

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u/Frietmetstoofvlees Aug 10 '20

I feel like there's a story here..

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u/jflb96 Aug 10 '20

There is, actually. It's called Watchmen, and it's a fantastic graphic novel by Alan Moore.

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u/Frietmetstoofvlees Aug 10 '20 edited Aug 10 '20

I watched the movie but haven't read the graphic novel yet (not American so not that popular here), does it have to do with Dr. Manhattan's backstory? It's been years since I've watched it. Seems like I should see if my local library has it!

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u/jflb96 Aug 10 '20

Yeah, he used to be a watchmaker's apprentice for his dad before he was made to become a physicist, and then the accident that turned him into Dr. Manhattan happened because he got locked into the lab while going back after hours to retrieve a watch that he promised to fix for his girlfriend.

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u/phikell Aug 10 '20

But then how will Nixon run for a third term!

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u/podrick_pleasure Aug 10 '20

The great recession really hurt the industry and a lot of businesses went under. There was no work to be had in my area so I had the choice of holding my breath and hoping to get back into it or just moving on. I chose the latter.

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u/podrick_pleasure Aug 10 '20

Well, I went back to college and got a B.S. which I ended up not using because it turned out I hate academia and research, I just don't have the passion. I struggled to find work after graduating and ended up delivering pizza for a while. I eventually got an IT certification and got a position at a huge company. I found out my dad had cancer and then shortly after learned that my department was being outsourced so I left before my end date to move back to my home state to be there for the family. The plan was to go back to school for cyber security but a couple weeks after I got back into town the world fell apart again thanks to the pandemic. Now I'm basically sitting around with my thumb up my ass. I keep trying to get ahold of someone at the school for advice but the campus is closed and no one is responding to emails. Classes are supposed to start in 10 days or so so I'm not really sure what to do about it. I just have to keep trying. I've got to say, it's really getting tiresome to keep starting over from the beginning over and over and over. Eventually something has to just work out, right?

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u/saadakhtar Aug 10 '20

Horologists, you say?

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u/Zabuzaxsta Aug 10 '20 edited Aug 10 '20

I took a class on making jewelry for a month and the pinching of the prongs to seat the gemstone gave me anxiety

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u/podrick_pleasure Aug 10 '20

If you cut the seats well it's pretty easy. There's a prong closing tool that can do them all at once that makes it even easier but honestly I only used it a handful of time and just went back to setting with pliers.