FxrAndy Posted September 16, 2012 Report Share Posted September 16, 2012 Right this is a blue peter moment (Please ecuse the crappy iphone pics) Thanks to Rolojack i can show you all how to make a vintage silver flat 3 open 6&9 DWO I took a screen shot of his image in the DWO thread converted it to black and white in word and resized it. This needs nothing more than A decent inkjet printer Some self adhesive clear lables your old metal DWOs a bit of scotch bright a sharp craft knife (please get help from grown ups when cutting) Nail varnish remover or isopopenol alcohol A sunday morning with out the shakes Right First get all your old DWOs that are made of metal and a couple of date wheels for 2836/46 and chuck them in alcohol or nail varnish remover and remove all the old printing (this will save microns of clearance space) Once it is all clean take your scotch brite and brush the overlay blank you should end up with some thing like this Now we cut out one of our preprinted clear adhesive over lays and stick it as central as you can to the blank The get an adult to cut away the excess and you will be let with what we want a brushed silver flat 3, open 6&9 overlay now you may have dont it already but remove all the printing and ink from the date wheel And fit it to your movement Next we need some thing to attach the DWO to the DW, i like using clear nail varnish as it sets slowly and can be revoved easily, Dial dots are also good but think about clearance if you go this route Tiny dabs are all you need, Now add the DWO over the top lining the center of one number with the stem Fit you dial and check the positioning of all numbers over (wind the watch forwards and get the date to change as you got through 12am rather t6han jjust click forward in the date set position) there will be slight variation Adjust if nesesary and try again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again untill you are happy two slightly better pictures As we can see here the 20s need to move over to the right a touch, not sure if roloJack could do that??? as the rest are good The printing is better than the pictures actualy show and as good as my MBW DWO in my great white but not as perfect as my gen (The one above was a lower print quality than the one under the rail dial) I think we are moving in the right direction I think if i vectorised the image it would be better, can some one here do that? Many thanks to Rolojack for creating the image in the first place (let me know if you want a few of these) Do not all PM me asking me to make you one as i only have 3 blanks. Platinum members for a small donation to the postage can have the stickers for free, but it would be better if it was vectorised and prfesionaly printed. Thank you for reading and now your thoughts please as to the positioning, font size, and boldness 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ephry73 Posted September 16, 2012 Report Share Posted September 16, 2012 Awesome DIY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted September 16, 2012 Report Share Posted September 16, 2012 Excellent Writeup!! But ..... is that your thumbnail? I like how you operate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted September 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2012 Apparently the ridges are caused by an iron difficiency, but i have been eating iron filings for years now but it has not got any better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselpower Posted September 16, 2012 Report Share Posted September 16, 2012 Brilliant stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted September 16, 2012 Report Share Posted September 16, 2012 Apparently the ridges are caused by an iron difficiency, but i have been eating iron filings for years now but it has not got any better In my case it's too much iron. Mine look like that after I sharpen my chainsaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highoeyazmuhudee Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 outstanding ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmj Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Wow. Great tutorial. Thanks for sharing A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsiadeCuba Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Please mass produce this! I'd buy this for 75 bucks as I know the process that goes into this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krpster Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Very nice Fxr. Looks much easier in your tutorial than I expect it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klocklind1 Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Thanks a lot Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 Very cool! Im going to upgrade my account and buy some stickers!!! I need a bunch of these! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottomaggio8 Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 Wowww Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 con Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSTEEL Posted March 17, 2013 Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 Great tut! Now just to find some files for the Submariner LV to print Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olivax Posted March 17, 2013 Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 Great job Andy!<br />If you are planning to sell some of those dwo, let me know cause i'm not so handy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottomaggio8 Posted March 18, 2013 Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 Good tutorial. ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
correctime Posted March 18, 2013 Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 Awesome DIY thread. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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