Clickspring makes a Watchmaker's Faceplate

Apart from anything else, the videography is outstanding. Even the muzac is unobtrusive. 29 mins of delight.

Making a Watchmaker's Faceplate for the Sherline Lathe - Part 1 **LINK**

Ches

I watched this yesterday - very therapeutic! Although, to be a bit (very!) nit-picking, the chamfers on the three big holes were ever so slightly different distances from the screw heads.

Rob

Rob,

'therapeutic' is a good word to describe it

The more I see of the Sherline lathes the more I wish they were available (at USA prices) in the UK. I know they aren't for heavy duty machining but they seem so adaptable yet compact.

Anyway, looking forward to Pt 2.

Ches

I watch a lot of Clickspring video's. Good work & editing.

Steve.

Very good indeed, as always for Clickspring. He is the Fitting and Turning instructor at our local tech college where the apprentices go, so I suspect in this day and age probably got some video training as part of his teaching qualification that is required these days. Certainly does a good job, of the engineering and the videoing. The lads are lucky to have exposure to such a craftsman.

I like his use of the hand graver and the little hand graver rest on his lathe. I feel a new project coming on.

Thanks for the great video from click spring. He does great work and is a very talented craftsman. Milling slots I always find it easier to just have a start hole, and then clean up the other end with the final sized cutter or the final passes. I also like the lapping plate fixture. Something that I could use for sure for different things. I like the way he explains about having a common radial alignment for fixtures and for replacing pieces etc onto or into the lathe.

Steve, Hopper, Neil,

He is the Fitting and Turning instructor at our local tech college...

I wasn't aware of his background. He seems to take a very methodical approach to his work...those apprentices will be well served. How does he find the time to do 'two' jobs?

... got some video training as part of his teaching qualification...

That would get him off to a good start. Like most things, filming and editing basics are fairly easy to get a grip of, but to do it well is an order of magnitude higher. Editing is a very underated task but it can take a lot longer than the actual filming. IIRC, there was no Hollywood Oscar for 'editing' for many years untill the Committee saw the light.

...hand graver rest...

That looked very neat, and flexible. Eccentric Engineering do something similar but a bit more elaborate.

... the lapping plate fixture.

Yes, that caught my eye also. I imagine he has shelves of specialist tools he has developed over the years which can quickly solve outlier tasks.

Regards,

Ches

Edit: I also noticed he uses a small vacuum for clearing swarf. I use a Dyson fitted with the short nozzle for periodically sucking up the bulk of the swarf. In pecking order - small photographer's blower bulb, 1" paint brush, Dyson, Pan and Brush. In a workshop (where time is money, and the machinery is usually bigger) a compressed air line is much quicker and possibly safer.....it does spread the swarf, but the end-of-job clean-up gathers all that.

Edited By Ches Green UK on 31/12/2022 10:35:24

Edited By Ches Green UK on 31/12/2022 10:36:56