Rio Grande Jewelry Tech Team members Shane Hendren and Gregg Burgard talk shop and answer your jewelry-making questions.
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Topics covered in this episode:
1) Mold making
2) Casting
3) Tips for adding color to a piece
4) E-coating - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YrEa5u0J4M&t=1s
5) Engraving
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Have a question for the Jewelry Tech Team? Email us at podcast@riogrande.com, and we will try to answer your question on the next episode.
Rio Grande Jewelry Tech Team members Shane Hendren and Gregg Burgard talk shop and answer your jewelry-making questions.
Join us every Tuesday at 11 am MT for Tech Team Tuesdays on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3u2Bnwf-959Wako0Dk93TA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/riogrande/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jewelrysupplies
Topics covered in this episode:
1) Mold making
2) Casting
3) Tips for adding color to a piece
4) E-coating - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YrEa5u0J4M&t=1s
5) Engraving
6) Lindstrom Tools—Use code Lindstrom1 to get 10% off all Lindstrom Tools now through the end of April.
Have a question for the Jewelry Tech Team? Email us at podcast@riogrande.com, and we will try to answer your question on the next episode.
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Good morning and welcome to
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Tech Team Tuesday, live at 11.
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My name is Shane Hendren.
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And today,
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my special guest is none other
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than the glorious Greg Burgard.
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Greg?
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Yes.
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Give us a little bit of
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background information on you.
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How did you come to Rio Grande?
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Okay, let me be more specific.
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Give me a little tidbit of
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what you did before you got
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to Rio Grande.
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Okay.
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Right before I came here,
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I had a phenomenal job.
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I was the new product
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development director for a
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large manufacturer.
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And basically, my job, obviously,
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was to develop new product.
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But anything between the
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concept or an idea to production molds,
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hand it over to production.
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Everything in between there, I did that.
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And we produced anywhere
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from 12 to 30 new styles per week.
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I had about 15 people
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working in my department.
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We made all the production molds.
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We did all the models.
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I used a lot of outside 2D
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and 3D artists for wax
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carving that was really pre-3D printing.
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So they were all carved by hand.
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I had 2D designers,
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and I would give them
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direction about lines that
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we wanted to create.
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For example,
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if we wanted to make a line of...
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uh, girl sports charms.
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Right.
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And so we would have them designed.
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I would choose,
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sometimes we would modify
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the designs on paper and
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then I would hand out those to various,
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uh, 3D wax carvers, basically.
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Then we would get those in,
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we would make molds on them, uh,
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And then we would make wax injections,
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build our own trees,
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send them over to casting.
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We didn't do our own casting.
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Send them in for casting, get them back,
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clip them off, clean them up, sprue them,
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trademark stamp them, check finger sizes,
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make sure stones fit.
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And we did that as also part
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of our verification.
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And we gave them item
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numbers and everything.
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And we did three samples of everything.
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One went to the president for pricing,
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one went to marketing for photos,
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and another one went to
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salespeople for samples.
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How many years did you do that?
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I did that for about 20 years.
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Wow.
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20 years before you even got
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to Rio Grande.
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Yeah.
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It was a great job because, like I said,
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I got to fly to big
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customers like Avon and QVC
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and make special products just for them.
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So it was great.
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And correct me if I'm wrong,
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but you also did all of
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their pewter work in your
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own business on the side.
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i had a well we we did uh
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also part of what I did in
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product development was
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make uh you probably
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remember in the 90s all
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those dragons and wizards
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and stuff with all the
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crystals on them well we
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did that but those models
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were made in bronze okay
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and so we did that in my
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department that was part of the 15 people
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So half of our production
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was doing that stuff in pewter.
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The other half was doing it
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in silver and gold.
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And I actually started
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another business with a friend of mine,
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and we had a shop next door.
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And everything I made there,
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we sold through Pewter.
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Right.
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My day job.
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But they had a great sales network.
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But you weren't done there.
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You also because what I
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admire the most is your glasswork.
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Yeah.
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And you have a number of
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patents for things that
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you've designed and everything.
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So while you were doing
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these other two jobs,
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these other two full time jobs,
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you had another business
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that was exclusively
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explain that that business.
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yeah so um I went to I i was
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I was going to an art an
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art fair and uh because a
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friend of mine was a
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painter actually he was one
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of the 2d designers his
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name is dick wimberly um he
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lives in santa fe shout out
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to dick wimberly yeah and
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uh so he was one of our
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designers and I was just
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going to go visit him and
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see what he was doing I
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walked past this one uh
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this one uh it was the
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school building over at the
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fairgrounds and they were
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having a glass show and I
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thought I'm in the jewelry
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business I'm going to go in
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there and see what this is
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all about and I walked in
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and I saw torches and
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flames and and big colors
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you know in in in what we
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do and in the jewelry world
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most of the colors that we
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see are like this big right
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they're small stones but
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with the glass it was all
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the people wearing these
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big glass beautiful red and
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bright colors and I go this
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is kind of cool
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and so I walked around the
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show and there was a guy he
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had some sheets of paper
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and he said learn how to
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make beads you know and so
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I took one of those and it
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took me about two months
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for me to call him but he
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had a shop over in old town
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and I went in there and it
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was me and a retired pipe
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fitter and I started
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learning how to make glass beads and
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all of his former students
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would come in and and I
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noticed they all wore their
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beads the same way they had
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this great artwork on their
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beads and they would just
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string them on a cord right
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and I thought these people
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need a great way to wear
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and display these beads so
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I thought that's what I can
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do so I started to make a
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line of findings in silver
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that would uh and and I
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like to make them
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interchangeable so they can
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change them because usually
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their favorite bead is their last bead
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So they always want to change them.
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So I made a line of
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interchangeable findings in silver.
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And one of them was a ring.
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And I got a patent on it.
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Actually, I have three patents,
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but the ring one is the
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most profitable one.
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And so I ended up making and
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selling those rings at glass bead shows.
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And eventually I was looking
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around at all the glass
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artists and I thought, you know,
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I'm casting silver.
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I'm going to figure out how to cast glass.
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So I figured out a special
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process to cast the glass and, uh,
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And it took me about 150 experiments.
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And my wife would tell me, said, stop,
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stop,
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because she could see I was
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depressed after time after time.
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But I thought, no, when I get this,
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it's going to be really great.
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And so it was.
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And it became reliable.
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The process became reliable around 2012.
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And so anyway,
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I submitted it to a lot of
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design competitions and I
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won a lot of them.
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And I was actually asked to
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go to the Smithsonian in 2019.
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Yeah.
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And you also have work in
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the Corning Museum.
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Yes,
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I have a piece in their permanent
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collection,
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also in the Albuquerque Museum,
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in their permanent collection,
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a few of them.
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That's cool.
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That's really cool.
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So that thing on the
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glasswork actually ties in
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with a question we had from
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Gregory Coleman last week on YouTube.
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And Gregory's question was,
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what's your favorite way to
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add color to a piece?
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And I'm going to assume it's glass.
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Yeah.
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Well,
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the easiest way is to put a stone in
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there.
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Right.
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But what's your favorite way?
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He wants to know what's your favorite way.
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My favorite way.
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You know, since I started working here,
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I really like e-coding.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And I know you've used it too.
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I really like it because
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it's very permanent.
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It's really durable.
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When we were learning how to do e-coding,
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they gave us these disks
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with different colors on them.
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And I thought,
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I'm going to test this stuff.
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So I put it in my pocket
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with my keys and my change.
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And I walked around with it
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for at least...
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four months and here at at
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Rio we have to go through
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security we take everything
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out and put it in these
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bins and when I was putting
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it in the bin one day it
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fell and it rolled under
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the security table and I
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never got it back but
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It had held up really well
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for like four months of
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every day just rubbing
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against your keys and your change.
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And it was starting to get a
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little bit around the edges.
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But that's a pretty durable test.
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And it's easy to do.
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It's very easy to do.
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You just need plating equipment.
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You do need a different
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rectifier that goes a little bit higher.
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Well, yes and no.
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It depends on the color.
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But because I did over 500 of them,
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remember all the pins for
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the SNAC conference in 2019?
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Yes.
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And it's actually very fast.
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Was that the Portland one?
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it might have been portland
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I remember seeing the rose
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it was with those rows
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right yeah all right yeah
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it was city of roses I
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think it's I think they
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were yeah I remember those
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we did a lot of them that
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gold color I dreamt about
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those for a while anyway
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they're really durable um
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it makes metals that you
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ordinarily can't wear next
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to your skin very well uh
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like copper because you'll
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sweat and and and it reacts
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with the skin well it it makes your
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It makes it bio.
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There's no pre-plating
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required or anything.
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Nope, nope.
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Super easy.
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It's a nanoceramic.
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Yes.
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Which makes it hypoallergenic.
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Right.
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I don't know if we can say that,
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but it's... And it's also a
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little flexible because we
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had these cuffs that we
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made with Bonnie Dune out of like,
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I don't know,
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18 gauge or something and
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they were copper and they
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were a little flexible.
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And I thought, oh, this will be great.
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I'm going to E-coat it and
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I'm going to squeeze it and
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see if it cracks.
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And it actually didn't.
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So it will withstand the
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flexing that people do.
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So E-coating everybody.
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That's a great one.
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E-coating Gregory Coleman is
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Greg's favorite way
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To color jewelry.
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But let me circle back around.
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So you did all this
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phenomenal work and
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everything prior to getting
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to Rio Grande.
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Okay.
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So what brought you to Rio Grande?
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What was the transition that
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got you from working for
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this other manufacturer to
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coming here to Rio Grande?
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The business sold.
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Yeah.
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And...
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uh you know I i actually
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wasn't working for a couple
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of years and uh I saw an ad
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to come be on the tech team
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and I thought I'll do that
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that's different yeah I
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always want to do something
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different right always got
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to challenge yourself and
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do something different so
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so once you got here you
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you'd been a customer of
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rio grande though oh yeah
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yeah since the 70s right
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But once you got here,
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because this is the thing,
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and I encourage everybody,
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get your questions in for
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Greg specifically.
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Greg is an expert on mold making,
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wax carving, casting, things like that.
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As you can tell, manufacturing, production,
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if you have anything.
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Design.
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He's helped me enormously.
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I'm a fabricator.
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Most of my stuff is one of a kind.
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Yep.
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All fabricated and everything.
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But you helped me to
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understand how to streamline my process.
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and to create molds for
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those things that I do repetitively.
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Right.
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So that I'm not spending all
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those hours completely rebuilding it.
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Right.
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And you also help me to understand how,
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even though I'm using
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something from a mold,
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it's still of a one of a kind.
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Can be, yes.
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Well, in my case,
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because the stones are always different.
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The engraving is always different.
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Right.
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And that kind of thing.
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Right.
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So if you have questions of any kind,
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you're more than welcome.
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We really,
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we really are looking forward to
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answering your questions.
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Um,
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I have one question from Polo Sandoval.
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He says, good afternoon, gentlemen.
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When setting pave stones in a ring setting,
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what graver should you use
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to split the shared prong
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between the stone before
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using a beading tool?
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Do you want that one, Greg?
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Do you do a lot of pave?
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I don't.
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I do a little bit.
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I would guess a flat graver.
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No, I wouldn't recommend a flat graver.
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For splitting?
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For splitting.
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So for me, at least,
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I don't even use a graver.
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I've made my own little
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wedge out of an old
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burnisher and I just push
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it straight into it and
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spreads them evenly.
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But if you were going to use a graver,
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I would use an onglet.
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Okay.
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If I was going to use a graver.
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But as we've said before on
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previous Tech Tuesdays,
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a lot of times you make your own tools.
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You make what you need.
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So like I said, if you have questions,
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keep them coming.
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We're more than happy to get
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them answered for you.
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But I want to go back.
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Because the tech team is all
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about sharing knowledge,
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all about helping people to
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improve their processes,
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to understand things better,
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to learn about new
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technologies and things like that.
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And with everything you've
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done in manufacturing,
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you have 50 years of
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experience in the jewelry business.
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I mean,
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a lot of people wouldn't believe
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that looking at you, but you got 50.
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In June, it's 50 years, right?
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I heard you and Phil talking
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the other day.
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Yeah, yeah.
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50 years.
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Yeah, I started young.
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Yeah.
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I was still in high school.
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But 50 years of working in
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this industry gives you a
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lot of background.
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What I'd like you to expand on, though,
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is mold making.
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Okay.
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Because that's where you had
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the greatest impact on me.
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You really helped me to
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understand how mold making
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would help my fabrication
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process streamline and
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become more efficient.
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So tell us a little bit about mold making.
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I would like to see people...
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think differently about
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molds and I think they
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should even if you don't
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use molds if you're a
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fabricator and you use you
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make everything with bezel
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and wire and sheet like you were saying
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they're still I think I
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think it it it will it will
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change the way you think
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about your jewelry and it
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gives you a lot more design
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opportunities I'll give you
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an example so um if you may if you uh
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if you had a little rose or
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a cat or a skull or something,
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I think you should mold it
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because you can take that
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and you can use it as a design element.
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If you make a mold of it and
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then cast a whole bunch of them,
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you can put them here.
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Let me give you an example.
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Like here's a,
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Here's a sheet.
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Here's your bezel with your stone, right?
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You've got to face it that direction.
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Here's your bezel with your stone.
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That's a really terrible drawing.
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But let's say you have a
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mold with a little skull or
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a rose or something.
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Now you can take that,
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make multiple copies,
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and put them all around your piece.
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Mm-hmm.
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you can only do that if you
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make a mold or you got to
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make 20 or 30 of them which
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nobody wants to do also
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making molds is great um
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like let's have you ever
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made a shank and you looked
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at that shank and you said
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this shank is so perfect I
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almost can't believe I made
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it I can't see a single
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thing wrong with this shank
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I would say mold that shank right because
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You mold it, you inject it,
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and you cast a whole bunch of them.
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Now all of your shanks are that perfect.
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I know I can see you going, no,
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not exactly, because they're not,
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you know.
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But let's say you add, you know,
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you make a V-shank and you
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put your flour in there.
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Yeah, try to fabricate that.
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Yeah.
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So you can make things that
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are hard to fabricate.
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And, I mean,
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we've all seen rings with big
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lion heads and stuff.
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I mean,
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I know a few people that can
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actually carve that stuff
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in metal and do a pretty good job.
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But what if you get an order
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for 50 of them?
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You've got to make them all.
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I actually have a couple of
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friends who do that.
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They engrave and they sculpt
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the metal and everything.
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And...
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Their stuff isn't cheap, quote unquote.
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But in my opinion,
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for the time and energy
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that they're putting out to
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create these things,
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it should be 10 times what
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they're charging for it.
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And I've told them the same thing.
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There's a love and a passion there too.
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Right,
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but it would be so cool because they
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only make one.
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And then once it's out there, it's gone.
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That's right.
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All you have is a picture.
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Well,
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this is where you sold me on the mold
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making.
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There's a lot of things I've made molds of,
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especially with the
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silicone molds because
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they're fast and easy.
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Not because I want to reproduce them,
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but because I know after I
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sell that piece...
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I'm never going to get it back.
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But now that I have this mold,
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I can always inject it,
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and I can at least make a
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copy of it that I can use as a reference.
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And it's a base object.
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Right.
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It's a base object that you
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can now elaborate on,
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and it'll get you from zero
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to 40% of the way much
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faster than starting from
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scratch and sawing out this cross.
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Right.
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Well, as an engraver, a lot of engravers,
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they do castings.
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They do castings of their
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engravings because it's one
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thing to look at something
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two-dimensionally and see a
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drawing of somebody's
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engraving pattern or something.
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It gives you a lot of information.
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But the casting,
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you can see the actual depth of the cut.
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You can see the width of the cut.
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And you can see it in three dimensions,
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right?
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And that's where the mold making,
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for me...
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has come through because I
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do something I did
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something two years ago I
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make a mold of it I can I
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can at least uh inject it
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with wax and now I've got
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that three-dimensional
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object and it's reminding
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me of the depth that I used
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or yeah or the thicknesses
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of something because even
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in a photograph then you're
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just guessing right you don't really know
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Right.
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Having best-selling items is
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kind of a blessing and a
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curse at the same time.
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It's a blessing because
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you're getting the sale,
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but it's a curse because
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you have to keep repeating your work.
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So that's all I'm saying about molding.
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Like with your shanks, I'm saying mold it.
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And actually,
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it might even make sense to
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make molds of your sizes, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
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10.
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And then you've got those already made.
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Yeah, it's true.
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I've got questions coming in, Greg,
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so let's go to Facebook first.
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Okay.
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Dwayne Hall, he says,
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can you name the name of
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the treatment again for
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making copper safer for skin wear?
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And he wants to know,
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will it prevent patina from
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reacting with skin?
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It was E-coating that we
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were talking about.
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Yes, E-coating, and it's made by Lagore.
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We sell it.
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And...
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Protecting a patina.
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Yes, it will.
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Well, how do I say this?
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Because you have to clean
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the metal before you E-coat it,
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even if you're using a clear E-coating,
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a lot of times it'll remove a patina.
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I have, but I have done it.
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Right.
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I have done it.
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I don't leave it in the
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cleaning solution as long.
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Okay.
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Because I want to preserve
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some of that oxidation patina.
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So it'll take... It's possible, yes.
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Some practice run.
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Yes,
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you're going to have to play with it a
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little bit.
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But imagine what happens is
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it goes into the solution,
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these little tiny beads... Mm-hmm.
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that have a charge are
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attracted to the surface,
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which has the...
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anode,
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they're attracted because of the charge.
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So imagine little tiny nano ceramic,
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because it's nano ceramic,
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these super tiny little beads,
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and they completely cover
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the conductive surface.
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Then you take it out and you
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got to let it dry.
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You put it into an oven,
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all those little tiny plastic beads,
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they melt and fuse together
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and create this shell that's ceramic.
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And it's fantastic.
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And not only does the
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E-coating come in colors,
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We have it in clear as well.
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Clear, black.
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And matte and everything.
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So there's a whole variety
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of things that you can do with it.
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Yeah, it's phenomenal.
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I love it.
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But let's go to the next question.
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I've got a question on
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Instagram from Honeyblue Designs.
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And their question is,
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is it best to do a mold
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first if I plan on making
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multiple pieces to sell of
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the same design?
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I'm new to this process and
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trying to minimize my trial and error.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Mold it first.
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Mold it first before it gets,
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you don't want to take an
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old worn out piece.
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Just think of your mold.
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It's going to preserve whatever you mold.
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So if you mold a nice, sharp,
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crisp piece with nice
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detail and everything is
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exactly the way you like it,
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that's the way all your
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copies are going to be.
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I would mold it early.
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And it's also important that
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whatever you mold,
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that's going to be the way it comes out.
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So whatever level of finish that you want.
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so what I what I remind
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people of is if it has
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scratches it's going to
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mold those scratches always
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finish everything as far as
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you can don't don't assume
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like I can take care of
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this in a tumbling step
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later you're always better
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to get it as close to
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perfect as you can from the
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beginning before you make
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the mold right okay I've
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got another question from
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instagram uh a stay a
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jewelry work and I'm sorry
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if I mispronounced that
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They want to know,
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could E-coating be used on
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the back only of a metal clay piece?
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I'm thinking of white copper
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clay pieces that contain nickel.
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Oh,
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because they're concerned about the skin.
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They want to know about just
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using it on one side.
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Sure, you can.
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We used to have a mask.
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I don't know if we still have a mask,
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because the mask would have
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to be able to withstand
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about 300 degrees.
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You can always remove it later.
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I'm actually doing some
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experiments where I'm
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e-coating something and
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then removing it before I
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put it into the oven.
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Because I think it's easier
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there because it's not all
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fused together as a shell
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to try to like wipe it off
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with a soft brush or something.
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And I got to apologize.
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I haven't really done that all the way yet,
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but that's possibly a way to do it.
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Right.
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We have the masking pins,
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is what you're referring to.
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And then you can remove it
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with an acetone...
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I remove it with acetone.
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Okay.
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But some people use fingernail polish.
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There's all different masking methods.
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As long as it will withstand
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that curing process, whatever.
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I forget what it is.
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It's different for different colors.
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But what I'm saying is when you mask it,
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like with fingernail polish, for example,
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you're going to remove that
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before you cure it because
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otherwise it's going to burn off.
00:22:48.336 --> 00:22:49.277
Okay.
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uh well you can't just dip
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it yeah because all the the
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little beads aren't fused
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together yet it's time
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consuming yeah it's you can
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dip it then you gotta
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remove the e-coating and
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then you gotta it's
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We were also experimenting
00:23:03.153 --> 00:23:04.012
with some kind of like
00:23:04.073 --> 00:23:04.992
rubber cement kind of stuff
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where you kind of peel it away.
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And actually,
00:23:08.973 --> 00:23:10.954
that might be a great way to do it.
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So to be more specific, a stay of jewelry.
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Yes, you can.
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It's doable,
00:23:18.416 --> 00:23:20.117
but it's going to take experimentation.
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We don't have a tried and
00:23:22.857 --> 00:23:24.078
true method yet that we can
00:23:24.138 --> 00:23:25.818
say this is exactly how to do it.
00:23:25.838 --> 00:23:27.920
But you can also coat them in clear.
00:23:27.940 --> 00:23:28.019
Yeah.
00:23:30.009 --> 00:23:30.409
Exactly.
00:23:30.489 --> 00:23:31.509
You can coat them in clear
00:23:31.609 --> 00:23:32.851
and the whole thing is protected.
00:23:32.871 --> 00:23:33.151
Right.
00:23:33.270 --> 00:23:34.330
And you can't really see it.
00:23:34.811 --> 00:23:36.291
So if you want to protect the whole thing,
00:23:36.332 --> 00:23:36.551
I mean,
00:23:36.571 --> 00:23:37.853
what if you're wearing it and it flips?
00:23:38.492 --> 00:23:40.433
You want to protect both sides probably.
00:23:41.055 --> 00:23:42.194
We need to circle back.
00:23:42.335 --> 00:23:42.915
Okay.
00:23:43.036 --> 00:23:45.116
We have the Art of the
00:23:45.196 --> 00:23:47.698
Artifice had a follow-up
00:23:47.758 --> 00:23:49.739
question about the pave setting.
00:23:50.199 --> 00:23:51.099
They wanted to know about
00:23:51.140 --> 00:23:53.361
the chisel that I was talking about.
00:23:54.201 --> 00:23:56.502
They say they favor an 80 to 90 degree,
00:23:56.522 --> 00:23:58.344
but they're no expert on...
00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:01.940
I can't tell you exactly the
00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:03.440
degrees on the chisel that I'm using.
00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:05.700
It's less than... Something you made.
00:24:05.940 --> 00:24:07.901
Yeah, it's probably like 70 degrees.
00:24:08.840 --> 00:24:09.800
You know, I ground it down,
00:24:09.840 --> 00:24:11.201
and I put it in there,
00:24:11.241 --> 00:24:12.721
and it's enough to split
00:24:13.682 --> 00:24:15.162
the prong so that it goes
00:24:15.241 --> 00:24:17.663
over both sides simultaneously.
00:24:17.682 --> 00:24:19.603
And after that, you... Yeah,
00:24:19.743 --> 00:24:21.923
and then I put a... Put a bead on it.
00:24:21.943 --> 00:24:22.523
A bead on it, yeah.
00:24:23.124 --> 00:24:25.805
So I couldn't tell you the angles, sorry.
00:24:25.825 --> 00:24:26.045
Okay.
00:24:26.525 --> 00:24:27.685
But whatever works.
00:24:28.145 --> 00:24:28.365
I mean,
00:24:28.405 --> 00:24:29.506
a lot of times you end up making
00:24:29.547 --> 00:24:30.207
multiple tools.
00:24:30.886 --> 00:24:32.887
Some of them are very, very specific.
00:24:32.907 --> 00:24:33.709
Those are the best tools,
00:24:33.909 --> 00:24:34.528
the ones you make.
00:24:35.009 --> 00:24:36.170
We've got another question
00:24:36.210 --> 00:24:38.810
on Instagram from Lunick Jewelry.
00:24:39.791 --> 00:24:41.592
And it says, according to plating,
00:24:42.113 --> 00:24:43.333
do you recommend coating
00:24:43.373 --> 00:24:46.015
them at the end for extra protection?
00:24:46.295 --> 00:24:47.375
And how could you make the
00:24:47.454 --> 00:24:48.935
gold plating more durable?
00:24:51.707 --> 00:24:52.688
Just like I said,
00:24:52.847 --> 00:24:54.829
you can coat it with a clear.
00:24:55.089 --> 00:24:56.050
Right, the E-coat.
00:24:56.310 --> 00:24:58.492
Yes, you can E-coat with a clear,
00:24:59.472 --> 00:25:02.035
and that would definitely
00:25:02.095 --> 00:25:02.855
protect the gold.
00:25:04.657 --> 00:25:06.019
And it wouldn't affect how
00:25:06.058 --> 00:25:07.779
the gold shines.
00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:09.320
You could still see it as gold.
00:25:09.922 --> 00:25:12.183
Right, and as far as gold plating,
00:25:13.223 --> 00:25:14.605
there's really no way to
00:25:14.645 --> 00:25:15.665
make it more durable.
00:25:16.126 --> 00:25:17.367
It is what it is.
00:25:18.075 --> 00:25:18.474
You know,
00:25:19.757 --> 00:25:22.959
I think acid-based solutions are
00:25:23.118 --> 00:25:25.201
slightly more durable than cyanide-based.
00:25:25.300 --> 00:25:26.701
And also, you don't have the cyanide.
00:25:27.262 --> 00:25:27.782
Right.
00:25:28.364 --> 00:25:31.086
So acid-based gold solutions
00:25:31.266 --> 00:25:32.626
are slightly more durable.
00:25:36.330 --> 00:25:38.112
But yes, an E-coating.
00:25:38.392 --> 00:25:40.153
A clear E-coating is ideal.
00:25:40.294 --> 00:25:42.776
Oh, it's going to save it a lot longer.
00:25:42.796 --> 00:25:43.696
Yeah.
00:25:44.186 --> 00:25:45.048
Oh, okay.
00:25:45.087 --> 00:25:46.568
I've got a question from YouTube.
00:25:48.309 --> 00:25:51.093
Christine Nor's dragon Weber
00:25:51.772 --> 00:25:54.474
wants to know if you reticulate silver,
00:25:55.256 --> 00:25:57.037
use it in a project that
00:25:57.076 --> 00:25:58.719
includes some solder and
00:25:58.798 --> 00:26:00.119
then decide to scrap it.
00:26:00.660 --> 00:26:01.901
Can it be melted down,
00:26:01.980 --> 00:26:03.663
rolled flat and re
00:26:03.762 --> 00:26:05.604
reticulated or does the
00:26:05.683 --> 00:26:07.365
solder prevent it from working?
00:26:10.347 --> 00:26:10.728
Hmm.
00:26:11.308 --> 00:26:11.648
Don't know.
00:26:13.450 --> 00:26:14.510
It definitely is going to
00:26:14.570 --> 00:26:16.354
change the composition of
00:26:16.374 --> 00:26:18.435
the material and how it reacts.
00:26:18.596 --> 00:26:19.336
Because you're bringing
00:26:19.396 --> 00:26:20.519
stuff to the surface that
00:26:20.558 --> 00:26:21.480
wasn't there before.
00:26:21.500 --> 00:26:21.740
Right.
00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:23.561
So once you bring it up to the surface,
00:26:24.123 --> 00:26:24.864
and then you're adding
00:26:24.943 --> 00:26:26.246
other stuff like solder,
00:26:26.786 --> 00:26:28.428
and then you try to roll it back down,
00:26:29.328 --> 00:26:29.950
I think it's going to
00:26:29.970 --> 00:26:31.811
affect the way that it crinkles.
00:26:32.093 --> 00:26:32.232
Yeah.
00:26:33.614 --> 00:26:34.454
It's going to be trial
00:26:35.474 --> 00:26:36.494
because no two things are
00:26:36.515 --> 00:26:37.056
going to be the same.
00:26:37.395 --> 00:26:38.635
But it's definitely not
00:26:38.655 --> 00:26:39.416
going to be sterling
00:26:39.477 --> 00:26:41.217
anymore because you've
00:26:41.436 --> 00:26:43.518
changed the overall composition of it.
00:26:43.978 --> 00:26:44.818
And I think that's something
00:26:44.858 --> 00:26:45.939
people need to keep in mind
00:26:46.519 --> 00:26:48.220
when you're melting down
00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:49.961
your own scraps and everything.
00:26:50.441 --> 00:26:51.682
There's clean scrap and
00:26:51.701 --> 00:26:52.521
there's dirty scrap.
00:26:53.303 --> 00:26:54.544
And there's a huge difference.
00:26:55.085 --> 00:26:56.226
Especially when you're going
00:26:56.306 --> 00:26:57.146
to do the resale.
00:26:57.887 --> 00:26:58.749
Because you're not going to
00:26:58.788 --> 00:26:59.509
get the same amount of
00:26:59.549 --> 00:27:00.570
money for dirty scrap that
00:27:00.590 --> 00:27:01.511
you get for clean scrap
00:27:01.892 --> 00:27:02.933
because the refiners have
00:27:02.953 --> 00:27:05.076
to do more work to break it down.
00:27:05.415 --> 00:27:06.217
So when you are...
00:27:07.898 --> 00:27:10.101
keeping your scrap.
00:27:10.580 --> 00:27:11.662
I encourage people to keep
00:27:11.701 --> 00:27:13.202
your clean separate from
00:27:13.303 --> 00:27:14.403
anything that has solder in
00:27:14.443 --> 00:27:16.625
it and assume that all of
00:27:16.704 --> 00:27:19.126
your filings and everything are dirty.
00:27:19.507 --> 00:27:19.707
Right.
00:27:21.087 --> 00:27:22.528
And their question also
00:27:22.910 --> 00:27:24.310
brings up an interesting point too.
00:27:24.691 --> 00:27:25.811
We're asked a lot of
00:27:26.112 --> 00:27:27.532
questions that are kind of
00:27:29.430 --> 00:27:32.971
that are not common.
00:27:33.071 --> 00:27:36.114
That's why we get asked the questions.
00:27:37.234 --> 00:27:38.474
And a lot of times we don't
00:27:38.515 --> 00:27:39.316
know the answer because we
00:27:39.355 --> 00:27:39.855
haven't done it.
00:27:42.821 --> 00:27:44.143
The thing that I always say
00:27:44.202 --> 00:27:45.463
to people is do a test.
00:27:45.723 --> 00:27:45.884
Yeah.
00:27:46.424 --> 00:27:47.226
Yeah, absolutely.
00:27:47.826 --> 00:27:48.606
So do a test.
00:27:48.787 --> 00:27:50.228
Maybe not on your important work,
00:27:50.407 --> 00:27:51.209
but do a test.
00:27:51.568 --> 00:27:53.450
I always tell people to keep a notebook.
00:27:53.790 --> 00:27:54.872
Yeah.
00:27:55.231 --> 00:27:56.432
Use the scientific method.
00:27:56.653 --> 00:27:56.813
Yeah.
00:27:57.292 --> 00:27:57.973
And keep notes.
00:27:58.554 --> 00:28:00.236
Because as much as we think, oh,
00:28:00.316 --> 00:28:01.237
I'm going to remember this.
00:28:02.441 --> 00:28:03.922
And I'm only speaking for myself.
00:28:04.021 --> 00:28:05.242
Nine times out of ten, I forget it.
00:28:05.563 --> 00:28:05.864
Yeah.
00:28:06.284 --> 00:28:07.404
But I've got these little
00:28:07.565 --> 00:28:09.026
notebooks that I've got notes in.
00:28:09.046 --> 00:28:10.247
Some of them are 20 years old.
00:28:10.287 --> 00:28:11.407
I do the same thing, yeah.
00:28:11.748 --> 00:28:12.509
And, you know,
00:28:12.628 --> 00:28:14.150
the pencil is rubbed and everything.
00:28:14.630 --> 00:28:16.031
You can't remember what
00:28:16.092 --> 00:28:17.353
setting you had or what the
00:28:17.413 --> 00:28:20.375
temperature was or what, you know,
00:28:20.375 --> 00:28:20.835
10 years ago.
00:28:20.875 --> 00:28:21.556
You can't remember that.
00:28:21.736 --> 00:28:23.297
I have people who see a
00:28:23.336 --> 00:28:24.198
piece of jewelry that I
00:28:24.238 --> 00:28:25.179
made 20 years ago.
00:28:25.898 --> 00:28:26.499
And they're like,
00:28:27.019 --> 00:28:27.939
can I order one of those?
00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:30.240
And you hate to say no.
00:28:31.079 --> 00:28:31.519
But it's like,
00:28:31.579 --> 00:28:32.980
I can't even remember how I made that.
00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:34.941
Pull the mold off the shelf.
00:28:35.121 --> 00:28:36.500
Well, if I had a mold,
00:28:36.580 --> 00:28:37.381
it would be the way to go.
00:28:37.520 --> 00:28:38.141
You got a mold.
00:28:38.340 --> 00:28:40.481
We've got another follow-up
00:28:40.541 --> 00:28:42.741
question from Christine
00:28:43.442 --> 00:28:44.602
Nor's Dragon Weber.
00:28:45.102 --> 00:28:45.721
She wants to know,
00:28:45.862 --> 00:28:46.863
another question I've got.
00:28:47.682 --> 00:28:49.123
She says she's got a few of them today.
00:28:49.542 --> 00:28:52.223
Can rose gold be granulated
00:28:52.423 --> 00:28:53.523
or does the copper in it
00:28:53.584 --> 00:28:54.564
make it impossible?
00:28:56.433 --> 00:28:58.435
Wow.
00:29:00.958 --> 00:29:02.499
I would think, here again,
00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:05.301
do a small experiment
00:29:05.321 --> 00:29:06.262
because I haven't done it.
00:29:06.563 --> 00:29:06.843
Have you?
00:29:07.203 --> 00:29:08.105
I actually have.
00:29:08.244 --> 00:29:09.365
If she's referring to
00:29:09.425 --> 00:29:10.807
granulation as in melting
00:29:10.846 --> 00:29:11.607
it and making balls.
00:29:11.688 --> 00:29:13.048
Making perfect spheres.
00:29:13.148 --> 00:29:14.009
Yes, I've done that.
00:29:14.190 --> 00:29:15.730
That you can... Have I done
00:29:15.750 --> 00:29:16.531
it consistently?
00:29:16.852 --> 00:29:17.012
No.
00:29:17.893 --> 00:29:20.375
So it's a simple, yes, you can, but...
00:29:21.411 --> 00:29:22.392
You're going to have to practice.
00:29:22.751 --> 00:29:23.833
And I think it also depends
00:29:23.893 --> 00:29:24.513
on the carriage.
00:29:25.114 --> 00:29:26.655
It balls up much better when
00:29:26.715 --> 00:29:27.596
it's higher carriage,
00:29:28.498 --> 00:29:30.098
which means there's less copper in it.
00:29:30.439 --> 00:29:31.319
So it's not going to be as
00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:33.962
rosy as something with more copper in it.
00:29:34.282 --> 00:29:35.124
Right, right.
00:29:35.503 --> 00:29:36.704
But it definitely,
00:29:37.846 --> 00:29:39.207
you can definitely ball the metal up.
00:29:39.847 --> 00:29:40.628
Oh, sure, sure.
00:29:41.690 --> 00:29:42.891
But the consistency,
00:29:43.471 --> 00:29:44.731
now you can't fuse it.
00:29:45.432 --> 00:29:47.234
The way you can do 22 and 24
00:29:47.234 --> 00:29:48.154
karat granules.
00:29:48.174 --> 00:29:49.036
Is that pure?
00:29:49.476 --> 00:29:50.136
Close to pure.
00:29:50.457 --> 00:29:50.676
Yeah.
00:29:51.218 --> 00:29:51.458
You know,
00:29:51.478 --> 00:29:52.838
the fusing is not going to happen.
00:29:53.259 --> 00:29:53.940
No, no.
00:29:54.059 --> 00:29:54.621
I wouldn't think so.
00:29:54.661 --> 00:29:55.161
And then you're going to
00:29:55.181 --> 00:29:56.362
have to mess with some of
00:29:57.482 --> 00:29:59.484
that rose gold solder, which I hate.
00:29:59.884 --> 00:30:00.565
Yeah, yeah.
00:30:00.585 --> 00:30:01.886
It always is a pain.
00:30:01.906 --> 00:30:02.866
I know.
00:30:03.288 --> 00:30:03.748
And you know what?
00:30:03.807 --> 00:30:03.827
I...
00:30:05.998 --> 00:30:09.839
I know that some granulation
00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:11.020
people have been,
00:30:11.941 --> 00:30:12.821
they will come in with a
00:30:12.862 --> 00:30:14.242
laser welder and tack, tack.
00:30:14.803 --> 00:30:15.383
Right.
00:30:15.462 --> 00:30:16.763
They'll tack things in place
00:30:17.044 --> 00:30:17.763
so they don't move.
00:30:18.224 --> 00:30:18.404
Yeah.
00:30:18.484 --> 00:30:19.984
The Pulsar welder is great for that.
00:30:20.145 --> 00:30:20.326
Yeah.
00:30:20.385 --> 00:30:20.826
Or a laser.
00:30:20.885 --> 00:30:21.346
A laser.
00:30:21.665 --> 00:30:22.707
They're using the laser a lot.
00:30:23.067 --> 00:30:24.107
and and that's the other
00:30:24.127 --> 00:30:24.768
thing a lot of people
00:30:24.788 --> 00:30:25.847
aren't aware of I didn't
00:30:25.928 --> 00:30:27.368
know this until uh I went
00:30:27.409 --> 00:30:29.690
to a class recently and the
00:30:29.730 --> 00:30:30.631
guy that I took the class
00:30:30.651 --> 00:30:31.550
with was master stone
00:30:31.570 --> 00:30:32.530
setter and he was
00:30:32.590 --> 00:30:33.612
explaining to me how he
00:30:33.711 --> 00:30:35.512
uses the laser welder to
00:30:35.553 --> 00:30:37.673
make the beads on his uh
00:30:37.713 --> 00:30:39.775
settings yes and it it made
00:30:39.954 --> 00:30:41.194
so much sense after he
00:30:41.255 --> 00:30:43.395
explained it but when I was
00:30:44.116 --> 00:30:44.977
when he first said oh yeah
00:30:44.997 --> 00:30:45.857
I just used the laser
00:30:45.897 --> 00:30:47.417
welder to make the the
00:30:47.458 --> 00:30:48.679
beads and I was like huh
00:30:49.884 --> 00:30:51.044
And you know who I heard
00:30:51.084 --> 00:30:53.204
that also from is Lonnie here in town.
00:30:53.224 --> 00:30:54.605
Yeah.
00:30:55.704 --> 00:30:57.246
And they were doing some
00:30:57.286 --> 00:30:59.946
assembly line type pave.
00:30:59.987 --> 00:31:02.707
And they had one guy pushing a curl.
00:31:02.967 --> 00:31:03.686
And that's all he did.
00:31:03.968 --> 00:31:04.928
He just pushed the curl.
00:31:05.307 --> 00:31:07.827
And then he handed it to the laser welder.
00:31:07.948 --> 00:31:08.729
And they went under and they
00:31:08.769 --> 00:31:10.788
hit the curl and just like bam, bam, bam.
00:31:10.808 --> 00:31:11.929
They were polished and everything.
00:31:12.130 --> 00:31:12.289
Yeah.
00:31:12.430 --> 00:31:14.329
So it was a one shot.
00:31:14.349 --> 00:31:15.390
That's what he was explaining to me.
00:31:15.410 --> 00:31:15.589
He said,
00:31:15.609 --> 00:31:17.270
you saved so much time and everything.
00:31:17.290 --> 00:31:17.411
Yes.
00:31:18.590 --> 00:31:19.771
And there's no risk of
00:31:20.712 --> 00:31:23.035
slippage or any of that kind of thing.
00:31:23.236 --> 00:31:23.455
No.
00:31:24.576 --> 00:31:27.638
But, yeah, there's so many tricks.
00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:28.539
Yes.
00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:30.102
And I think that's the advantage.
00:31:31.001 --> 00:31:31.863
I know it's an advantage
00:31:31.903 --> 00:31:32.584
since I've been on this
00:31:32.624 --> 00:31:33.785
team for – I've been on the
00:31:33.825 --> 00:31:35.747
tech team now for over six years.
00:31:36.007 --> 00:31:36.186
Yeah.
00:31:36.507 --> 00:31:37.828
And before I came here,
00:31:38.970 --> 00:31:41.990
I didn't have the time to –
00:31:41.990 --> 00:31:42.811
I was so busy.
00:31:43.172 --> 00:31:43.952
I was at my bench.
00:31:44.053 --> 00:31:45.053
Just doing your thing.
00:31:45.133 --> 00:31:47.535
Humped over my bench, grinding it out,
00:31:47.816 --> 00:31:48.875
making jewelry, right?
00:31:50.698 --> 00:31:51.959
But once I came here,
00:31:52.019 --> 00:31:53.619
it was like this cornucopia
00:31:54.181 --> 00:31:56.642
of knowledge that it was like, holy cow,
00:31:56.682 --> 00:31:57.682
I had no idea.
00:31:57.702 --> 00:31:59.023
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:59.305 --> 00:32:00.526
And that's why I encourage people,
00:32:01.046 --> 00:32:01.306
you know,
00:32:01.526 --> 00:32:03.167
everybody out there who's watching this,
00:32:03.587 --> 00:32:04.348
whether you're watching it
00:32:04.409 --> 00:32:06.210
live or you're watching a recording of it,
00:32:06.690 --> 00:32:07.691
Tech Team Tuesday is a
00:32:07.770 --> 00:32:09.071
perfect opportunity to ask
00:32:09.112 --> 00:32:10.673
questions to people who...
00:32:11.473 --> 00:32:12.634
have been there, done that,
00:32:13.075 --> 00:32:14.634
or they know somebody who has.
00:32:14.894 --> 00:32:15.115
Yes.
00:32:15.976 --> 00:32:17.215
And you can ask those questions,
00:32:17.496 --> 00:32:19.076
which brings us to another question.
00:32:19.096 --> 00:32:20.376
We've got another question on Instagram.
00:32:20.596 --> 00:32:21.438
Sure.
00:32:22.357 --> 00:32:24.358
Tribulet Escola.
00:32:25.358 --> 00:32:27.039
I would like to know if they
00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:28.559
use any products to ensure
00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:29.961
the gold doesn't lose its
00:32:30.060 --> 00:32:31.721
shine when soldering.
00:32:33.521 --> 00:32:33.842
Well,
00:32:35.241 --> 00:32:37.282
that's one of the big advantages of
00:32:37.502 --> 00:32:39.304
the barrier flux.
00:32:39.624 --> 00:32:39.743
Yeah.
00:32:42.557 --> 00:32:46.300
And I was working with a silversmith,
00:32:46.320 --> 00:32:48.423
a friend of mine named Paul.
00:32:48.443 --> 00:32:48.903
He's deaf.
00:32:48.964 --> 00:32:50.526
He's a phenomenal silversmith.
00:32:52.107 --> 00:32:54.651
I showed him barrier flux.
00:32:54.691 --> 00:32:56.713
And at that time, I just used the,
00:32:57.974 --> 00:32:59.237
what's the pink one that we sell?
00:33:01.057 --> 00:33:01.979
I know what it looks like.
00:33:02.539 --> 00:33:03.259
I forgot the name of it.
00:33:03.820 --> 00:33:05.782
But anyway, we sell a barrier flux,
00:33:05.823 --> 00:33:06.604
and it's not flammable.
00:33:06.663 --> 00:33:07.565
It doesn't have alcohol in it.
00:33:07.924 --> 00:33:09.586
But it's pink in color.
00:33:09.666 --> 00:33:10.228
I'll remember it.
00:33:10.587 --> 00:33:13.191
But anyway, he made a piece,
00:33:13.550 --> 00:33:14.311
and he polished it.
00:33:14.771 --> 00:33:16.614
And I told him, dip it in here,
00:33:17.275 --> 00:33:21.640
and then solder on it.
00:33:22.180 --> 00:33:23.580
And even coming out of the pickle,
00:33:23.661 --> 00:33:24.500
you would think the pickle
00:33:24.540 --> 00:33:25.580
would make it white too.
00:33:26.060 --> 00:33:26.862
But he pulled it out of the
00:33:26.902 --> 00:33:27.862
pickle and he just rubbed
00:33:27.882 --> 00:33:28.402
it with his hand.
00:33:28.422 --> 00:33:29.903
And he goes, wow, look, it's still,
00:33:30.682 --> 00:33:32.123
it's going to take a lot less.
00:33:32.604 --> 00:33:34.144
Like it's already pre-polished.
00:33:34.183 --> 00:33:35.365
All you got to do is hit a final.
00:33:36.664 --> 00:33:38.506
That barrier flux is good on
00:33:38.546 --> 00:33:39.165
sterling as well.
00:33:39.766 --> 00:33:40.405
And that's what I try to
00:33:40.445 --> 00:33:41.507
explain to people because
00:33:43.287 --> 00:33:44.207
it's something that isn't
00:33:44.268 --> 00:33:45.107
commonly taught.
00:33:45.996 --> 00:33:47.336
And some people think that
00:33:47.997 --> 00:33:50.117
it's an extra step and it's unnecessary.
00:33:50.637 --> 00:33:51.597
But in the long run,
00:33:51.638 --> 00:33:53.298
it really saves you a lot of time.
00:33:53.878 --> 00:33:54.299
Oh, yeah.
00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:56.039
It cuts down on the fire
00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:57.941
scale or the fire stain,
00:33:57.980 --> 00:33:59.221
whichever you prefer to call it,
00:33:59.261 --> 00:33:59.882
that kind of thing.
00:34:00.382 --> 00:34:01.383
And it's just one of those
00:34:01.423 --> 00:34:03.183
things where you're working smarter,
00:34:03.223 --> 00:34:03.723
not harder.
00:34:03.903 --> 00:34:04.144
Yes.
00:34:04.584 --> 00:34:05.023
But, yeah.
00:34:05.484 --> 00:34:08.246
So we're coming to the end
00:34:08.266 --> 00:34:09.206
of our time here, Greg.
00:34:10.047 --> 00:34:10.806
I wanted to ask you
00:34:10.987 --> 00:34:12.327
questions about wax carving,
00:34:12.347 --> 00:34:13.347
and we didn't even get to that.
00:34:13.728 --> 00:34:13.947
Okay.
00:34:13.967 --> 00:34:15.369
So we're going to have to do this again.
00:34:15.708 --> 00:34:17.230
okay because uh you're a
00:34:17.289 --> 00:34:18.471
plethora of information
00:34:18.751 --> 00:34:20.632
thanks and um let me check
00:34:20.672 --> 00:34:23.434
here real quick um the uh
00:34:23.614 --> 00:34:24.875
the flux you were talking
00:34:24.954 --> 00:34:27.237
about is the stop box stop
00:34:27.257 --> 00:34:28.998
box too and uh roman
00:34:29.038 --> 00:34:30.358
numeral two it's uh yep
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:32.880
stop box two anti-fire
00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:35.461
scale coating spray yeah and um
00:34:37.130 --> 00:34:38.110
we got that in there.
00:34:38.791 --> 00:34:39.952
Um, like I said,
00:34:40.233 --> 00:34:41.393
we're going to have to do this again.
00:34:41.554 --> 00:34:43.536
Remember everybody Lindstrom
00:34:43.835 --> 00:34:46.458
one for 10% off all
00:34:46.538 --> 00:34:48.699
Lindstrom items for the month of April.
00:34:49.501 --> 00:34:51.842
Um, Lindstrom one is the code.
00:34:52.643 --> 00:34:52.744
Uh,
00:34:52.943 --> 00:34:54.686
if you haven't ever used Lindstrom
00:34:54.945 --> 00:34:57.507
cutters or pliers, I encourage you to,
00:34:57.588 --> 00:34:59.030
there's some of the best in the world.
00:34:59.789 --> 00:35:00.210
And, um,
00:35:01.242 --> 00:35:01.762
Before we go,
00:35:01.782 --> 00:35:03.023
I want to ask you one question.
00:35:03.405 --> 00:35:03.545
Yep.
00:35:03.965 --> 00:35:04.766
I have these canned
00:35:04.806 --> 00:35:06.266
questions that I tend to ask people.
00:35:07.047 --> 00:35:08.608
But this is one I haven't
00:35:08.668 --> 00:35:09.608
asked a couple of people in
00:35:09.628 --> 00:35:10.849
a couple of interviews.
00:35:10.889 --> 00:35:11.570
But I want to ask you,
00:35:11.590 --> 00:35:12.471
because you've been doing
00:35:12.490 --> 00:35:13.411
this for 50 years.
00:35:14.172 --> 00:35:15.313
If you went back to your
00:35:15.333 --> 00:35:17.175
12-year-old self and you
00:35:17.215 --> 00:35:19.135
could give yourself one piece of advice,
00:35:20.496 --> 00:35:21.038
what would it be?
00:35:21.478 --> 00:35:23.018
Because you've had a very
00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:23.800
successful career.
00:35:23.820 --> 00:35:24.699
You've had a great life.
00:35:25.740 --> 00:35:29.563
You know, I would say...
00:35:31.670 --> 00:35:36.052
not to not I would say go go
00:35:36.172 --> 00:35:37.353
deeper in the the
00:35:37.414 --> 00:35:38.675
specialties that you like
00:35:39.596 --> 00:35:41.137
and get and get the best
00:35:41.317 --> 00:35:42.858
training you can possibly
00:35:42.918 --> 00:35:45.920
get go to the person who's
00:35:45.980 --> 00:35:46.940
doing the thing that you
00:35:46.981 --> 00:35:48.501
want to do because that's
00:35:48.521 --> 00:35:49.342
the only person who can
00:35:49.362 --> 00:35:50.123
tell you how to get there
00:35:50.242 --> 00:35:53.085
right and they may not even be teachers
00:35:54.425 --> 00:35:56.067
And I have talked people
00:35:56.106 --> 00:35:57.047
into teaching me how to do
00:35:57.086 --> 00:35:58.166
stuff who weren't teaching
00:35:58.206 --> 00:35:59.487
or didn't have a class or anything.
00:35:59.527 --> 00:36:01.367
I just convinced them just
00:36:01.409 --> 00:36:02.989
to teach me one-on-one or whatever.
00:36:03.028 --> 00:36:05.269
But a lot of times people will do that.
00:36:05.829 --> 00:36:07.329
So I would say approach them and ask them.
00:36:07.349 --> 00:36:07.791
But yes,
00:36:08.271 --> 00:36:11.811
get the best training you can
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possibly get in the area that you love,
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that you have a passion for.
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That's a perfect segue out
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of our conversation.
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Tech Team Tuesday today.
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So next Tuesday, 11 a.m.
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Mountain Time.
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Don't forget Lindstrom One.
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We'll see you next Tuesday.
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Bye.