This is pretty awesome...you mentioned that you don't want to go into detail about chemical etching the hands. Do you know of good material? Hard to find stuff like this
@@MaxxPowerFTW ah learning material on chemical etching...I use a mechanical engineer for that, ha. Science at its best. Have you researched it any yet in terms of a topic?
Tinkerer here, have been enjoying your YT videos. I have a plastic coin ("gold" plated) that I'd like to use as a watch dial. Should I buy a case first or a movement first? Which video should I look at to help me get started? Thanks.
probably a case. also most watch dials are 0.4mm thick, some are 0.8mm thick. not very thick, so you might want to compare that to the coin to see how different/tall of case you'd need to house the dial and whatever movement you're hoping for.
@@littlecncshop yeah you can get newer Chinese made stuff, like you said, but man I love this old school American one that will outlast any of us. :) Thanks for watching.
Well Done! alwas getting some good Info and ideas! I am wandering if it would work with a jpt 50w fiber laser? And may i ask which thicknes of steelplate you r using for the hands?
I watched a video of yours from a few years back exhibiting your horology tools. I recently ordered a cheap Winner automatic watch with a chinese movement to begin me journey on maintaining mechanical watches (didnt want to tinker with my seikos.. yet). My question is in regards to lubricants. What all lubricants will i need?
@@WatchComplications lol ya little vague. I find it dificult to find my grail watch; much like everything else having to accept what the market offers, there is always something I'd like to change. I cant afford all the watches i like so kinda wanted to customize inexpensive casio or other low budget watch before i attempt say a seiko, pagani design or other affordable watches. So i guess my question is more targeted towards 'what watch brand offers the most customization variety or easiest to customize?'
probably seiko skx stuff has the most accessible and aftermarket mod parts available. if you're really wanting to tinker, pagani isn't a bad place to start low cost-wise
@@WatchComplications i have a seiko snk809 and a pagani design submariner homage pd1661. Where would i find parts for them? The lume is very weak on the 1661
@@willywantoknow2563 are you talking about replacing hands or just the lume on the hands? For hand replacements you'd have to get the hole diameters and find ones that match. Lume kits can be found lots of places, like ebay, esslinger, and ofrei
just replied to your email, but right now it's not the sort of custom work I take on, it's just too time consuming with everything else I have going on.
Can you lume over dials with poor existing lume? I bought a beautiful and customized dial on Ali, but the lume is terrible. It's a dark theme watch and it's like a black based lume, and it doesn't light up for sh!t.
you can certainly put more layers of lume on as long as it doesn’t interfere with the hands and it will be stronger. The problem with black lume is that it isn’t very bright to begin with. What can help lume be brighter is if there is a lighter color underneath of it before applying the lume. For example, when I lume a dial that has - black base, I always mark the locations in white so the lume is a bit stronger.