Making Custom Watch Hands and Applying Lume to Dial Numerals 

glad you find it helpful!

Very nice! I'm keeping up with your work on insta. You went full tilt...I'm still stuck in limbo. :)

thanks for the support, it’s a very hard aspect of watch work, due to the scale.

stainless steel is what I used...thickness was around 0.10mm give or take

@@WatchComplications sorry I misspoke, I meant good learning material

@@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?

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.

@@WatchComplications Thanks, I ap[preciate that!

@@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.

if you want mental pain and suffering, try to make custom watch hands 😆

glad the information is useful

when you buy a lume kit it comes with adhesive and thinner, usually.

I'm not sure on the laser front, might depend on the material you use. The steel i used was about 0.28mm thin plate.

I would start with some 941, 9104, and 9010. But it really depends on what you're planning to do and with what sorts of movements.

@@WatchComplications generally Seiko movements, and the likes of which use their unbranded movements.

@@WatchComplications Just general servicing on a self sufficient level on my own collection.

um....?

@@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.

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.