machines

Clement Design Studios machine arsenal, a slowly growing collection of home built ugly ducklings designed to craft beautiful wristwatches from the best raw materials available.

150x150mm CNC Mill

The build of a small, accurate CNC milling machine to cut watch cases from stainless steel and titanium. The mill is controlled by a LinuxCNC mainboard and software. Motion is provided by 180w servo motors and the spindle is powered by a 1kw servo through a home brew ISO20 spindle. I built the machine with future upgrades in mind. Primarily larger xy motion and a fourth axis to be added down the road.

50x50mm Micro CNC

A micro CNC milling machine I built to cut the watch dials and hands. XY movements are provided by a couple of salvaged optical stages which were made to move lasers and mirrors with extremely high accuracy. The spindle is a German made Sycotec which is capable of spooling up to 80,000RPM. Control is an Arduino based GRBL unit which moves small stepper motors in the xyz planes.