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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. All right, I'm going to bring this right out here. Here's the Renior
cut up. There's no robe. There's no arm. Same thing on the other side. No arm, no robe,
the leg is cut off as I explained before. Now, inside this shell, this is a shell that
is uncooked, is the wax which was over there. There was a metal plate that was on the bottom,
and there's the funnel. All this is wax and the whole thing is wax encased inside it.
It's kind of like when you bread chicken and you don't wash your hands, back and forth
in the buttermilk, but we let it dry between each coat until we get the proper thickness
of a little over a quarter of an inch. This takes a week. So, from an original to a mold:
two weeks. Gating: a week to fill the room. Slurry: a week. So there you're already at
a month. And then what we're going to do is we drill these small relief holes to relieve
wax pressure when it gets burned up, otherwise the shell cracks. I'm going to bring this
back in here so we can keep it temperature controlled.