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.