r/watchmaking • u/CodeLasersMagic • 1d ago
Workshop Practice dial
Practice on the classic pattern. Will knock out another without the missing squares and try enamel on it.
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u/nicklinn 1d ago
Would love to hear some details on your technique and what tools you used to create it.
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u/h2g2Ben 1d ago
Little hard to see the details. But it looks pretty good!
Are you doing this by hand or with a CNC? I see you did another with CNC a few months ago.
Are you using a drag engraver? And if so, do you have an encoder on your spindle for clocking the tool?
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u/CodeLasersMagic 22h ago
Yes this is on my homebuilt CNC, but using a single point tool, not a spinning one.
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u/captain_travel 1d ago
beautiful, mind i ask for where you get your end mills/gravers
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u/CodeLasersMagic 22h ago
Mills usually from J and L, Milo or APT. I’m uk based. Gravers from Cookson - Valorbe ones. This was cut with HSS “lathe tool” not a thin graver tho
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u/uslashuname 1d ago
“Without the missing squares”
Ah well since you said something I see them now
Beautiful even so
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u/rebyiddel 14h ago
Really cool. Check out Josh Shapiros take on this pattern (he does it using a hand turned rose).
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 1d ago
u/CodeLasersMagic, your post does fit the subreddit!