So this is how they build Vixen telescopes (in Japanese)

[emadmoussa]

[Freff]

Great stuff, wish it was in English though.

[emadmoussa]

What, you don't speak Japanese?!

[Freff]

What, you don't speak Japanese?!

Speaking it is not the problem, it's reading it I have difficulty with.

[J_M_Franklin]

Excellent video, thanks for posting it. It would be nice if we had an English Language version, and maybe less of the "porno" music in the middle!!

[RikM]

Brilliant

[Kropster]

How do you know its porno music?!

[ibraidwo]

Thanks for sharing - very interesting...

[kirkster501]

Why do they pour it all on that sheet, smash it all up and next thing we see is them cutting out circles of glass?

[kirkster501]

Makes me want to buy a Vixen scope though !

[andrew63]

Thanks for the link. Something very reassuring about seeing all this hand built assembly going on. It's a shame Vixen stuff is not more popular over here as they make great optics. I guess they can't compete on price with the Chinese, but would be nice to own one.

Edit - and also mounts free of that grease...

andrew

[John]

Thats an interesting video - thanks for posting it

Vixen scopes are very nice - I've owned two but both secondhand. The new prices are pretty steep but I guess Japanese labour costs more than Chinese ?.

They did do a couple of lower priced ED doublet models which I think were re-branded versions of the Skywatcher ED80 and ED100. Still a bit more expensive than the Skywatcher versions though.

The Japanese ones seem much more precisely engineered than their chinese counterparts, to me.