I’m really impressed with the machining quality. They did beautiful work, right down to perfectly cut chamfers on angled holes. Here’s a closeup of the detail work.
Really thrilled that I have found a competent shop now after my struggles earlier. On the RIP I think I told them to go a little too aggressive on the blasting and the prototypes ate a couple cotton strings. I’ve double looped some ziplines microline and am really happy with that and haven’t had any broken strings but will still be having them lighten up the blasting a lot on these, working on getting some brass blasting samples from them. I’ll also definitely be moving to electropolish on the Pocketwatch to get it shiny.
Does the Pocketwatch also eat strings or just the fixed axle? My wife throws yoyos with a starburst response in a configuration where the starburst just eats strings so I’ve seen the carnage. The strings get completely annihilated. Also what size of bearing does it use?
Take your time heck take till the new year. No need to shop stuff during the Christmas rush anyway. It’s just gonna get delayed regardless with how efficient our postal system is lately
I feel your pain. My stuff is what it is… but over the last few weeks my wife has had some episodes that won 2 not so free trips to the ER in an ambulance. Super scary and exhausting for us all. At least for now there seems to be a bit of relief. I hope you can get to a better place.
The machine shops reaction when they made me three beautiful test units and sent me pictures and I asked them to immediately throw one of them into the the concrete floor of their shop.
