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In the Shop

This is a new feature for my web site, where I show some of the projects that I have been working on. In some cases you'll see a finished project, but in others you'll see the unsanitized truth as I clean up someone else's mess.

Early 2010 - The new shop

July 25, 2010 - Refiguring a 25" F/4.2 and a 4.5" flat

Aug. 9, 2010 - A busy shipping day

Sept. 27, 2010 - One day, four different substrates!

Oct. 12, 2010 - 1200 lbs., Part 1: Delivery

Nov., 2010 - 1200 lbs., Part 2: Kind of Blue

Nov., 2010 - Refiguring a 14"

Jan., 2011 - Refiguring a 24"

Jan., 2011 - An example of deceptive interferometry

Apr. 1, 2011 - Unfortunately NOT an April Fool's joke

May 1, 2011 - Outside the shop

May 23, 2011 - Way, way, WAY outside the shop.... on another continent!

July 28, 2011 - Back in the shop, in a crate

Aug. 1, 2011 - Different tests for different defects - a 10" mirror

Aug. 2, 2011 - Different tests for different defects - a 17.5" mirror

Aug. 13, 2011 - Why you should look at the back of a mirror

Sept. 10, 2011 - Strain testing in the digital age

Nov. 18, 2011 - How NOT to pack a mirror (v1.0)

Nov. 19, 2011 - How to pack a mirror (my way)

Nov. 22, 2011 - Early Christmas present

Nov. 27, 2011 - Not up to my standards - a 16"

Please check back for future installements of "In the Shop".

Mike Lockwood
Lockwood Custom Optics