Reply To: Watch from scratch

[david pierce]

Aruthra,
The mainspring is something that I feel I can do. I have a small shop with metal fabricating equipment which includes a 52″ and 36″ metal shear and hole punching presses and dies. The spring steel can be purchased from a metal supply house such as MSC in small sheets and sheared to width. This type of equipment is affordable to a small shop like mine. I feel that the hairsprings are a whole other matter and after watching the documentaries on Youtube are probably out of reach for me. After watching several other documentaries I think that I can handle most of the other parts with the equipment I have.
David