How to make custom watch dials – fiber laser engraving and Lightburn 3D slice
Making Your Own Watch Dial – Custom Watch Dial on a Fiber Laser with 3D slicing in Lightburn (full video)
In this video, I make a 33mm brass watch dial using Lightburn with a 3D sliced, 300 pass moon surface image. The dial takes about 4 hours to output and about another 2 to 3 hours to complete afterwards. I end up ruining my first dial with too much paint and so I make a second one (off camera using the same process as the first) except instead paint I use a chemical call Brass Black to color it and it really looks a lot better.
I also added some glow in the dark pips (hour markers). I also sealed the dial with a transparent ceramic coating to help prevent it from tarnishing later.
The brass blank is .7mm thick; a regular watch dial is .5mm thick so if you use a thicker metal you’d have to raise the hand height slightly. If I run hands to the pips I installed I would have to run quite a bit higher. In this case I didn’t build this into a watch as this build was specifically for this video.
The fiber laser is a Raycus 50W fiber laser that I’ve had for about 2 years. It works really well for me. I run Lightburn but it can also run EZCad.
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This video provides a detailed walkthrough of creating a custom brass watch dial using a fiber laser and LightBurn software (0:00). The process begins with determining the appropriate watch dial size based on the watch case.
• Materials and Tools:
• Brass blanks: The video uses .7mm thick brass blanks (1:00).
• Fiber Laser: A Raycus 50W fiber laser is used, running LightBurn software (Description).
• Calipers: Used for precise measurements of the brass blank (1:04).
• Design and Laser Settings:
• The design featured is a 3D sliced image of the lunar surface (1:26).
• Engraving settings: 300 total passes, 60,000 mm/minute speed, 75% power with a 20% minimum (1:47). A smaller line interval (0.003) and dot size (0.004) are recommended for smoother 3D sliced images (2:37).
• Outer ring settings: 40 passes (2:02).
• Hole cutting settings: 6,000 mm/minute speed, 80% power (2:09).
• Angle changes: Changing the angle by 12 degrees during scanning passes creates a smoother pattern (4:56).
• Cleaning pass: A higher speed, lower power, higher frequency pass to clean off burned areas. Wobble should be turned off for cleaning passes (7:54, 9:08).
• Circular cuts: Very low and slow settings (75-80% power) are used for circular cuts, typically 20-40 passes (10:44).
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