Another Busy Day

[DouglasSkinner]

The days certainly fly!  I've been in school for 13 months now, but there is still so much to learn.  I wonder if I'll know enough by the time I graduate?

  Today was a big day, tool-wise.  I got my new Lorch lathe (see box at far right next to bench with closed roll top).  It's a beautiful set, probably from the 1970's.  It's almost complete.  This plus my 1920-vintage Boley allows me to do almost everything.  

I'm also working on a nice little Japanese wristwatch.  It's not very expensive but it has some nice and fairly innovative features and, consequently, is of different design than I usually work on.  It has a cracked jewel so, as an exercise using my new lathe, I'm going to make a brash bushing to replace the jewel.  I wouldn't normally do this except for practice using my lathe.  Also I recently re-jeweled a watch that had brass bushings; so there's a sort of symmetry between the two operations.  

Finally, we put in the finishing touches to a student workshop off-campus where we can work together practicing various skills.  We will work, help and challenge each other and prepare questions to ask our instructor the next day.

Edited October 18, 2016 by DouglasSkinner
Left out some information

[dadistic]

How long is the program you're attending?

And no, none of us will ever know enough. At least I won't