I've always wanted to make something special with the Gold I found. And today, I finally did. Over the past five years, I've been saving all of the Gold I found. Every speck, flake, picker, and nugget, I've kept. And the journey hasn't always been easy. We were confronted by claim jumpers. Look who just showed up. From battling my anxiety, I'm done for seeing car maintenance, fighting for access to my claims, and even almost drowning. I came this close to drowning. I feel like I've definitely earned the pieces out of them. And throughout my entire journey, my partner, soon to hopefully be my wife, has been there by my side to support me when nobody else was. Meaning Adam meets a couple along the Suke River. Here's a story about overcoming adversity and discovering gold. Nicole and Paul are celebrating their ninth anniversary today. We're here at the river and the freezing cold, but I'm used to it by now. It's kind of our thing, which brings me here today. Meet Mark, aka Superman. And he'll be the one taking care of me today. The getting a process is doing the waxes, and they're injected, and then they go into the cast with a button. He's been playing with gold since 1974, and has earned my trust through his certifications, and of course, the work he's done. So these are the little bands that I'm going to be making. We have the big one for me because I have fat fingers, and of course, the little one for the cold. So I brought about three ounces of gold to play with. I don't know exactly what you want to use for the rings, but I let you pick three of them. Oh, sure, yeah. These are just the big ones. The first step today is to find the right sized pickers to fit around the ring. Once we have a bunch to choose from, you burn off any imperfections, and then soak them in acid. One is, uh, gonna go. So let me know the comments below. If you think I should sell some little pickers like this, and put them on rings. So this is the last time we are gonna see these dull. Okay. Saint. There we go. off. Okay. Just part of the process. And now we gotta take here the old one. About the window. Look at that. Nice and polished. It's just not the final, final bit. Obviously, we still gotta attach all the nuggets and stuff. I mean, we'll get a weight on those rings. Okay. So for the big ring, 6.2 grams and a little one, 10 ounces. 3.5 grams. I never thought I'd be using my gold for anything like this. I never wanted to sell the gold, never wanted to melt it. I always just wanted to keep it as my own. But this feels right. This feels really nice. You better say yes. Once the pickers are picked and the peppers are pickled, it's time to prep the rings for mounting. So we're doing, we're just annealing the gold to make it a little bit softer. Just bring it up to a dull red. Warm acid. Damn, wait. Look at that. I love it. This is a custom gold sonner. It's yellow gold mixed with flux and ground up to a paste. This makes it a lot easier. In this form to decide on nuggets, we'll start off with a small bit in one spot. One by one piece of candy by piece of candy, the rings are created. I could seriously watch this all day. A little pinch. De facto. I am. We just got to pull out a little bit more gold to add to the ring here. So it's no secret that this is the most time consuming part of the process. Hopefully I had the luxury to wait around and put more money in the parking meter. So Paulie looks really small. Well, these big big buildings. So Mark has been hard at work from the pick-in, the heat and the place and the hammer-in. I believe the only thing that is left is the final Paul-ish. I almost can't believe that I found the gold with my hands. I was able to put that into something else that I loved. I could not have done it if it wasn't for all of you supporting me through this journey. So I thank you for that. After a good day's work, this is the final product. I'm going to say I am super pleased with this and it sure feels weird to have something like this in your hand, especially after I found the gold and everything. Makes me want to put all my gold into jewelry. It may still not do that yet, but I might have to at least make up to you more. Mark, thank you for making this into a reality. I'm sure Nicole is going to love it. I know I love it. So again, thank you. I love it. I'm super. I want to hurt work. I'm going to do that. Again, this makes me want to make my own jewelry itself. I know a lot of people and a lot of my fans would be so interested in doing it, but I just don't want to do that to all my gold. Maybe some of the specific pieces that are memorable. Try again, Polly. Memorable. Yeah, for those of you who don't know, this is the creator of the Patea Pan. Chris Vogueus from Australia. He swears about it. He loves it. I've used one a few times already. I love it. I just haven't filmed a video using it yet. What challenge you? If any of you are interested in getting your plaster gold or any other metals designed into jewelry, I'll leave a link down below where you can check out Mark. For those of you wondering, she did say yes. Unfortunately, I didn't capture that on camera or the making of this ring, but maybe next time.