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    Watch Engraving

    Sorry, not an Insty user plus I don’t have anything worth sharing (yet). Saving up for the vacuum caster.
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    Watch Engraving

    I am a long way from doing anything for hire but thought it would be something to explore. I’ll stick with my belt buckles. Much simpler.
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    Watch Engraving

    It looks like watches that are worth engraving are protected by the manufacturer’s dealer network, just like firearms. I understand why, it’s just painful when you are on the outside looking in. Make friends with your local gunsmiths and jewelers.
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    Watch Engraving

    I’d like to try engraving a men’s wristwatch case and bracelet band. For you guys that do this professionally do you use a jeweler/watchmaker to disassemble and reassemble the crystal and inner workings or are you set up to do it yourself. It seems like that’s a rabbit hole that could swallow...
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    A60 Adjustments

    Nothing flat or straight anywhere. I’ll try my 6” torpedo level on the bottom of the lens. Maybe that will tell me something. Thanks.
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    Cutting down on engraving time

    clough42 on youtube has been doing some interesting work with laser engraving with a cnc router. Good for flat work.
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    A60 Adjustments

    Allen, I believe that may be it. They don’t give you any instructions on how to set the vertical axes of the head (front-to-back, side-to-side). I played with the front-to-back adjustment (what a machinist would call “nod” on a milling machine) and that has helped. When I originally set it up I...
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    A60 Adjustments

    When I look in the scope I see the whole circle of the field of view so I don’t think that’s it.
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    A60 Adjustments

    No, I’ve been using it for several months now. It’s just that the problem is making it difficult to do some straight lines on a border I’m doing right now.
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    A60 Adjustments

    The field of view through the scope is a circle. If I lay a graver flat on the work going left to right centered in that circle I should be looking straight down on the graver. That way I’m looking straight down on the cut as I make it. With my setup in order to look straight down on the graver...
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    A60 Adjustments

    I have a Leica A60 on a flex arm. My complaint is that when my graver is in the center of the field of view I am not looking directly down on it. In order to view the graver straight down I have to move it down into the bottom 1/4 of the field of view. This makes it uncomfortable since I’m...
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    Illustrator Question

    The guys at Adobe need to talk with the guys at Autodesk. Autocad is really good at trimming and closing paths. It stinks at freehand drawing but has some good tools for handling vectors.
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    Illustrator Question

    The best I’ve come up with is to make the object a compound path. That closes it up but the fill still doesn’t act right. Probably not worth the effort just to try and get a better idea of positive/negative balance.
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    Cordless Mini Hone

    It won’t be long before the jewelry industry is all digital with ”lost resin” casting instead of lost wax. The key part (and the hard part for us of a certain age) is learning how to create an object digitally. 3D modeling just hurts my brain.
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    Illustrator Question

    Most of the info on Adobe Illustrator is centered around illustration, not line art like used in our work. For you pros out there that use Illustrator a lot I have a question. I want a background fill where there are no scrolls or leaves, just like the real thing. It’s easy if you make the...
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