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show anything yet I posted one video
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that I made sort of a Gavin
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landcraft
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I'm gonna be turning this wax carving
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into solid
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sterling silver
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using sandcasting
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this is a ring I carve it's pretty funky
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weird architectural
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weirdness and I'm going to turn it into
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silver
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the only limitation is that you can't
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have any undercuts because the piece
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needs to go into the sand and out
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without disrupting it so this is a flask
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mold
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this is basically where the sand goes in
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so you have two halves that you can push
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the wax into and take it out and then
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pour the metal into
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this is one that I got along with five
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pounds of sand for 50 bucks from PMC
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supplies it's like a kit it was the
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cheapest one I got Petra Bond sand which
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is not recommended I want Dove clay but
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I just
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need to Fork over some cash for it
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just want to chop up
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expand like this to make sure
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you don't have any lumps going on
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I'm using my hand to break it up a bit
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as I see this
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still some baby powder from a future
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step but a previous
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casting that I did
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that sand feels pretty ready very soft
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very granular
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this is the one with the holes it's the
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female part not the male part you want
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to start with the female part
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Ling it in
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you're gonna have to push the wax
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into
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the sand
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so you don't want the bottom half to be
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super super compressed
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otherwise you'll get sort of like little
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mountains forming when you hammer in
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your wax
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now I'm just going to lightly hammer it
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in
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I'm using this it's a folding ruler
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completely Overkill but it's sturdy
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which I like so the edge will be flat
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carve up the top layer
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that looks pretty good to me
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it doesn't matter if it's like extremely
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entirely flat
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it's more that it's smooth because the
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other side will mate to it
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so we're going to start with just baby
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powdering the whole surface
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thick flavor across
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pull off the excess into a waste thing
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okay this is the Crux of it
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we're gonna need to push this
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this wax
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into our mold
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take some baby powder
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just really coat it
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metal is going to be pouring this way
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into the mold
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and whatever end is facing towards
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um where the metal is coming from you
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will have a sprue because you're gonna
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have to cut a channel for the metal to
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get there so if you want details like
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all of this
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that are carved into the wax to save
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myself carving silver away
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you're going to want to keep those
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towards the bottom
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like this
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so just a few inches away from the top
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lays it down you're trying to push it in
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halfway
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very very vertical
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I like to sort of test the fit make sure
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we didn't pull out the
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just to make sure it mates properly
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push the sand out of the female end of
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the mating
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joint
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make sure there's no big clumps of sand
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on the mating Edge
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press that down
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try to make sure it's relatively
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taking some more friendly crushed up
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sand
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and placing it over the second half of
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the mold
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this really Seals Everything in
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she realized that I should have baby
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powdered up the
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ring but it's too late for that
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so we're gonna hope for the best
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on the second side
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we're going forward much
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firmer
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moldings I'm gonna make sure it really
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compacts around the ring
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sand over the top
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now we should be able to break this
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apart I have two halves of the mold of
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the wax still in one end
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nice
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it came out pretty good you can see this
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is the
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second side of the flask mold so where I
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just packed sand into and this is the
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initial side
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so this is where you have to break the
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wax out of the mold without just
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wrapping it too much
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there it is
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looks like we have a successful
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mold made now comes the satisfying part
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we have to punch air holes in here I
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usually do about
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three on each side
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sort of like intuitive I don't actually
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know what the science is behind this I
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don't know what happens if you don't do
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it I've never done that nor seen it done
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but
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might as well continue on
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if it ain't broke don't fix it
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you can drill bit and punch it through
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I have my air holes
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and now I need
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what you call them vents
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sometimes you're gonna be using an
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exacto knife for this
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slice along that path
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gotta make sure the air has a channel to
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escape
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there's only one more step in this
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process
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that is to cut
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it's called a sprue
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so I'm trying to create
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Channel wide enough
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silver to go down freely
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make sure the silver can get down there
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without too much of a problem
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if it slows down on the way
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or knocks any sand with it
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you can cool down and get stuck before
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it even makes it to your ring
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looks pretty good to be honest
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now all we need is a sprue on the other
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side and we're ready to cast
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pack just a little bit more sand in the
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end here
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okay now we have to pair these two sides
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together
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push that in
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seen a lot of people using
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steel wire but
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I've just been using
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one
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little G clamp
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for near the top
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so you're relatively secure
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whatever not to pick it up with this
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g-clamp there should really be nothing
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on the bottom but I'm just lazy I
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haven't bought one
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it's pretty secure
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last thing to do before we light stuff
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on fire is
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weigh the wax
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getting
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0.54 grams use the calculator online
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show me how much silver it's gonna weigh
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that tells me it's gonna weigh
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5.6 grams
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in silver
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I'm gonna double it just to be safe
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I need my casting grain
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10 grams
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Crucible
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okay the only thing left to do at this
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point is to melt my silver and pour it
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in and try to get it pretty damn hot so
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above the melting point if it's just
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above the melting point then
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it will cool down and Harden just before
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it gets all the way into the mold
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and I'm using map gas which is just a
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bit hotter than propane
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um just speeds things up a bit
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anyways yeah I'm going outside and using
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this because
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that's made of wood and I don't have any
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ventilation in there so here we go
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now that it's poured you gotta wait 10
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minutes because it's way too hot
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I'll see if it all works
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we should have
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exactly that
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there we go that is wonderful
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pretty good outcome a little bit of
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flashing but
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all in all not too much
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it's going to be an interesting ring
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quick note on this
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all of this blackened
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sand
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you're going to want to carve out and
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discard the rest good to go again mix it
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back in with your batch
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if it gets dry after a while you can add
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a little bit of water
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the rest of your sand is completely fine
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this stuff is not
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pretty good tiny screw which is what I
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like
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I'm about to cut that off right now
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so I'm just going around the whole thing
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and doing some filing part of it's with
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more like a needle nose file sort of
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like this
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guy to get those sort of nice crisp
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definition
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is this
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and I'm using like a bigger file on the
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side and I think I'm going to switch to
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sanding soon I might skip a step and
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just Dremel out the inside
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quick
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ly have one
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and
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save me much time
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