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My safe lock crapped out on my the other day. Luckily I was able to get it open one last time. Today I spent time designing/machining and preparing a new lock for it. This time I made it so if it fails again it's a simple swap out.

A guy on another forum was asking about insurance for his home shop and it got me thinking, I wonder how many guys have a separate policy for their shop! Or, better yet how many people even know that if they ever had a problem (Fire, theft, so on...) and the insurance co found out they sold the...

Any suggestions for one that won't break the bank? One that's able to withstand a bit of coolant mist.... I started making a mount to hold a cheap linear slide for my tailstock but when a light mist of coolant landed on the slide it almost immediately crapped out and it says it's rated IP57. I...

Thought I'd share a good deal! Stumbled on it in Amazon, I was going to make one but not after I found this one. Can't go wrong for $38.00!

Looking to buy a small rolling mill but don't want to spend too much as it will likely get used once to flatten some gold for laser engraving. I might even build a small one but for time sake buying a used one. Thanks

I am planning on doing some gold inlay on a watch and have never done it before, one of the operations is to melt your gold (old jewelry on hand) and form it into a wire. As I understand, it then has to be annealed again to make it dead soft to inlay. Anyone have any information? It would be...

Working on a watch and I thought I'd share some pics of the lug work. Lugs need to be tilted slightly to allow the center-drill/drill to reach the bottom lug without colliding with the top one, this makes it tough to get the pilot hole started due to the center-drill wanting to skate on the...

Rounding the bend on my personal watch build and had to find a way to finish silver indices for the dial. They are so small you can barely hold them. Saw a comment elsewhere about laser welding it gave me an idea how to work hold these for finishing!

I thought I'd post few pics of some Center pin reels I recently finished.

I posted this a few years ago on another forum but thought some here might get a kick out of seeing it too! I became fascinated with watch movements a few years ago, especially escapements and of course the grail of them a Tourbillon! So a few years ago I decide to attempt to make one only a...