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This course is for the beginner watchmaker, clockmaker, hobbyist or home machinist. There is no prerequisite for this course. You don't even need to own a lathe! This course will teach you what is needed when buying a jewelers lathe. How to recognize a good or bad lathe. What is the right lathe for you. Where to buy a jewelers lathe. What you need in a lathe, and how each part should correctly function. What parts and accessories you will need to get started. You will learn how to maintain and care for your own lathe. Complete disassembly, servicing and reassembly of your lathe.
You will also learn about different types of gravers. How to make your own gravers that are better than any you can buy!! Where to buy the materials to make the best gravers. How to use your new gravers. You will learn and develop your lathe skills with 20 lathe turning lessons using gravers you have made!! There are also 2 bonus graver hand turning lessons!
You will impress yourself and all your friends with your newly acquired knowledge and skills. These are skills and techniques that will last you a lifetime! This is the first time this much information has been compiled for the beginner.
(about 240 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on March 12, 2005 in Clocks and Metalworking::Lathe.
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John Tope is very thorough, sometimes painstakingly so(!) However he touches all the bases and no information is missed-just the thing for a beginner.
I was impressed with how the lessons are put together to build upon each other in a practical fashion. I would be very surprised if anyone came away from these courses without a degree of comfort about choosing and buying a watchmaker's lathe, making gravers and using them for hand turning.
An informative introduction to jewelers' and watchmakers' lathes. I learned a bit about the history of the lathes, and quite a lot about what to look for when purchasing a used lathe. The information about collets was especially helpful.
I look forward to the other discs in the series.
