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  • Hi, my name is Gary Mitnik. I'm a sculptor here in Sedona, Arizona, and I'm here on behalf

  • of Expert Village. This is the liquid polymer that we use for the initial dipping. The other

  • tank over there is for the other coats. This will pick up the detail and we start off with

  • a very, very fine, very fine sand. This is called zircon sand. It's very dense, very

  • fine, almost to a flour consistency. And that's the first coat that just gives us the detail.

  • And as we dip each time we go into different sands which increase in size. That's how we

  • do it, back and forth. You dip it into the buttermilk, as it were, and then into the

  • flour. Doing a little tour. This is how we do the coating of the sand. Some people just

  • throw sand on it. This is what's called the fluidizer. Just like an avalanche, you can't

  • push your hand into it until you add air and then it fluffs very nice and easy, coating

  • the piece easily and without a lot of stress on the piece. It's very fluid. It's like fluffy.

  • And then when we pull it out it's all sandy and we let it dry. Then we do this five to

  • seven times depending on the size and complexity of the piece. Then you're left with a shell

  • that's yellow. It starts off green and dries to a yellow. That lets us know when it's dry.

  • We drill the relief holes and now we'll go to the burnout and we'll be able to see a

  • burned out shell and how we actually do it.

Hi, my name is Gary Mitnik. I'm a sculptor here in Sedona, Arizona, and I'm here on behalf

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