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Uh, I see stuff in craft galleries for 500 dollars.
and I say, oh no
and , and I go
and I make it.
Yeah.
That's how I started jewelry making.
I, I love to cook.
Oh, that's great.
And I saw a silver necklace that had these little teeny weeny silver spatulas and, and, and knife and, and a fork and all kinds of stuff
and I went
and I signed up for class because then again, you get, you know, get someone to guide you
and you get the tools you don't feel like buying.
Exactly.
And I made a necklace that I saw in a gallery for 320 dollars.
It took me a lot of time
but it didn't,
Oh, yeah.
but if it cost me 20 dollars, you know,
and then I,
And your time,
then you're that much farther ahead
Yeah.
Then I saw a, one of these country looking wood watermelons.
It was a solid watermelon with a wedge cut out of it.
Right.
I've seen them
and then the watermelon, the red with the, with the seeds painted in
and,
Oh, yeah.
Uh-huh.
That's neat.
I went there,
we have Home Depot out here.
I don't know if you've heard of it.
I went
and I got 2 6 foot inch thick boards turned into a watermelon.
Yes.
We have one.
I had to cut into slabs and build up this big square and turn it on the lath
and cutting that wedge out was no joke
Huh.
Oh, I'm, I'm sure.
We did it on a, I had a, uh, I did it through Adult Ed again.
A band saw?
What?
I did it through Adult Ed again.
Uh-huh.
And the teacher was one of these negative people,
oh that's dangerous,
we can't do that,
we just can't do that.
And I'm going well how about this way?
I, I want to do that,
that was the plan here
Right.
So we did get the wedge cut out by building some kind of a cradle for it.
A cradle for it.
Yeah,
so you can steady it
and then, you used a handsaw or a backsaw?
Well, it, the instructions in the book I had said use a coping saw
but there's no coping saw big enough to, for a 14 inch wide watermelon <laughter> that
Right,
right.
and he wanted me to do it by hand with a regular saw.
I said I'm not that steady,
it's not going to happen.
Yeah.
So we built a cradle for it
and we got once it was turned, we got one one cut out on the table saw, on the radial saw,
by getting the other one out without the slice now flying in your face was something you had to think about
Right.
So,
Now did you cut a quarter wedge in this?
Uh, I'd say it's about an eighth.
You know
Well, I, I'm envisioning, uh, uh, a a watermelon like a log
and then, uh, what I've seen of this kind before is you have the, uh, the, uh,
it's, uh,
if you're looking at adding on you have,
Up here in Rochester, uh, we're the second cleanest metropolitan city as far as air pollution.
I think Grand Rapids was number 1.
Uh, we really don't have too much of a problem as far as, uh, industry since we're pretty technologically based as far as our industry in the city here.
But we do have the same problem a lot of other areas up here in the northeast have
and that is the effects of acid rain.
coming basically from coal plants in Ohio and Illinois and Indiana.
Right.
Well, that's true.
Actually down here we don't have a big problem with, uh, with air pollution.
Mainly because we don't have anybody to to either side of us.
Uh, which helps out a lot as far as that goes.
I wouldn't even necessarily thought of that except when I lived up in Boston and up in, uh, you know,
debates would come up up there in Massachusetts and, you know, in that area over, uh, air pollution
and their attitude's, basically, well, prevailing ins, winds are to the east
so why should we have to worry.
Yeah.
I've, I've, uh, was in Los Angeles once
and that was quite a difference as far as pollution goes.
I mean you couldn't really see that much
Every once in a while we have these air inversions, the weather inversions