What are you working on now?

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Re: What are you working on now?

Post by Tanukjaju »

Some experimentation with aging a dial. Trying to get a natural blackened silver patina. Started off with a raw brass dial

Step 1 was to polish to a mirror’ish’ finish with 7000 grit sandpaper
Step 2 apply silver powder
Step 3.... tried humidity.... 48 hours. Not what I was looking for (the gloss was still there)
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Cleaned and reapplied fresh silver powder
Step 3b.... crushed egg shells and boiled water so there is steam...24 hours
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Step 4.... handled by hand so my oils are on the dial. 72 hours later
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That's weirdly attractive!
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Still practicing the stitching.

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So I went a little crazy with Squale and currently have. Few projects going. My 8 year old has expressed a wish to get involved in my hobby. He has been admiring the Squale stuff I have and said he wants one too.

So our mutual project begins today with an arrival of the Squale Dippy case. I’m super excited about this and will start a build thread for this one.

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Post by tafari »

finishing a dial, I think the inside matter too Image

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and sure the other side

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tafari wrote: March 7th, 2020, 4:31 pm finishing a dial, I think the inside matter too Image

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Congratulations! Excellent work K. :clap:
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So, as all we know, watchmakers are like kids... Going on all four from time to time...
I know how it goes: usually, if some part flies away, you don't have spare (Murphy)...

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Went a little over with some builds. ImageImageImage

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