Sculpting Watch Clasp With Gold Backgrounds
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- Опубликовано: 29 мар 2020
- Finally got to finish this aftermarket Rolex clasp that has been laying around bench for experiments.
Fully carved and sculpted scrollwork.
Elements were cut out as usual but background had to be 3 times deeper.
0.5mm 24karat gold wire inlays on background
Afterwards many many hours of punching steel and shaping it... I could have left it there but I decided to finish every surface with very small stones under Microscope.
Ferric chloride reacts with tinny layer of steel and it gives some shade when acid is neutralised.
Fold was later burnished smooth and even but i had to take it another step further and sandblast gold by hand using old, simple but time consuming method Japanese watchmaker Masahiro Kikuno showed me.
Hand blasting allows me to texture gold but due to low pressure of sand grains hitting metal, stainless remains untouched.
Last few hours of the project i spent applying fine diamond paste with toothpick and polished surfaces even more to remove tool marks.
Then another layer of Chloride and guitar fret rubbers (the ones used for polishing metal parts on musical instruments) were used to polish highlights even more.
All together this took me longer that full high end watch case engraving and therefore adds this technique to most expensive and time consuming in my arsenal...
This clasp is NOT for sale!!
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I would pay The 10,000$ for this hand art which no one can copy it, rather than pay it for basic Rolex which can be easily copy. Bravo keep it up.
Dang!!. looks GORGEOUS.
love the 3-D effect.
Thanks, took me forever to do it but it looks amazing in person
@@ReinisStripnieks for sculpting you use the sharpening template from Lindsay? what is the name of that template?
You make it look so easy! Much respect!
Thank you for telling the amount of time you’ve spent on this project. I was frustrated when after watching a video showing a project being done in less than an hour, while taking me two days.
Projects like theese take forever and i could easily work on detail for 60 more hours but enough is enough 😃
this is amazing, Thank you for sharing
Great skills.Work of art.Videography and Music is also on high level.Baltic forest at the beginning is great intro.You have a new subscriber.
Wow, impressive
Very nice
It was fantastic 🙋♂️
You are welcome 👍, you are also welcome to see my video ☺️
Очень интересно получилось👍
niiiice !!! :)
As always superb craftsmanship! What hand piece are you using? Is it a Steve Lindsay? I’d be blown away if you were to say Andu! Keep the videos please they are very inspiring keep me to strive harder at the bench
Thank you for this great video,but what type of engraving tool you r using here?105° or 120°? And what heel exactly?
incredible job my i ask you wich tools do you use ?
Thank you so much for this video Reinis. I have Been practicing sculpting for a few months. Where do you get your fine tipped ceramic stones?
From some English website, just google 0.5mm ceramic stones
What is the wax material you use to let you draw on the watch with a pencil?
👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👌
What did you put on the metal beforehand
What about rest of the daytona?
Very Impressive, liked and subbed ;@)
Thanks and welcome
@@ReinisStripnieks I'll be watching all your previous posts as I'm now getting into engraving (I've ordered and waiting for my ball vice to be delivered) but mine will be as background for champlevé enameling so I've got a LOT of practice ahead lol, look forward to learning a new craft 😀👍
@@mikealman9259 sounds Nice! Im experimenting wirh enameling myself off camera!
@@ReinisStripnieks Sweet, only doing torch fired atm until I'm more confident and will then get a kiln so I can do plique a jour 😍 look forward to seeing some of your enameling when you're ready 👍
Using tools from the gran. Link give. I can buy .
please
Это что за паста зелёная?
Is it also possible to inlay with yellow 18k gold?
Yes
Then why do you use 24k?
Sorry for all the questions. What type of stone did you use to even out the sculpted metal? Btw I really like your videos!!
24k is usually much easier to inlay and work with. The lesser alloys are harder and more difficult to deal with.
@@Blackmage50 Yes Billie just answered your question.
I'd like to watch but the voiceover audio isn't working well for me.
Wow I bet you wished you done that on the real clasp not the after market one after all that time ?
THANKS, i never thought that it would come out as good as it did and i wouldn't dare to convince customer to pay so much for something that i have never attempted before