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B: Right.
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B: You want to, uh, explore a new field
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B: or, or,
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A: Well, yeah,
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A: I, I'm signed up for a class in pottery making because I've never tried that yet
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B: Huh.
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So you have a M F A in, in what division of art?
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A: but,
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A: Well, I, I actually have a Masters of art
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A: and it's in art education.
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B: Oh, okay.
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A: So, I'm a licensed teacher
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A: but jobs being what they are, I substitute teach
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B: Yeah.
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A: and that way I have time for my kids too.
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A: And I've been fortunate that I can afford to work part-time.
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A: I don't know how long that's going to last
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B: Oh, yeah.
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A: And, uh, they're cutting back,
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A: so I don't go in all that often
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A: but I've been real interested in some of those cute country, country kind of things.
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A: Uh, I see stuff in craft galleries for five hundred dollars
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A: and I say, oh no
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A: and , and I go
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A: and I make it.
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B: Yeah.
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A: That's how I started jewelry making.
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A: I, I love to cook.
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B: Oh, that's great.
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A: And I saw a silver necklace that had these little teeny weeny silver spatulas and, and, and knife and, and a fork and all kinds of stuff
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A: and I went
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A: and I signed up for class because then again, you get, you know, get someone to guide you
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A: and you get the tools you don't feel like buying.
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B: Exactly.
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A: And I made a necklace that I saw in a gallery for three hundred twenty dollars
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A: It took me a lot of time
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A: but it didn't,
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B: Oh, yeah.
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A: but if it cost me twenty dollars, you know,
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A: and then I,
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B: And your time,
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B: then you're that much farther ahead
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A: Yeah.
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A: Then I saw a, one of these country looking wood watermelons.
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A: It was a solid watermelon with a wedge cut out of it.
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B: Right.
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B: I've seen them
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B: and then the watermelon, the red with the, with the seeds painted in
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B: and,
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A: Oh, yeah.
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A: Uh-huh.
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B: That's neat.
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A: I went there,
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A: we have Home Depot out here.
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A: I don't know if you've heard of it.
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A: I went
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A: and I got two six foot inch thick boards turned into a watermelon.
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B: Yes.
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B: We have one.
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A: I had to cut into slabs and build up this big square and turn it on the lath
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A: and cutting that wedge out was no joke
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B: Huh.
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B: Oh, I'm, I'm sure.
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A: We did it on a, I had a, uh, I did it through Adult Ed again.
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B: A band saw?
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B: What?
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A: I did it through Adult Ed again.
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B: Uh-huh.
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A: And the teacher was one of these negative people,
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A: oh that's dangerous,
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A: we can't do that,
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A: we just can't do that.
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A: And I'm going well how about this way?
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A: I, I want to do that,
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A: that was the plan here
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B: Right.
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A: So we did get the wedge cut out by building some kind of a cradle for it.
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B: A cradle for it.
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B: Yeah,
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B: so you can steady it
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B: and then, you used a handsaw or a backsaw?
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A: Well, it, the instructions in the book I had said use a coping saw
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A: but there's no coping saw big enough to, for a fourteen inch wide watermelon <laughter> that
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B: Right,
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B: right.
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A: and he wanted me to do it by hand with a regular saw.
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A: I said I'm not that steady,
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A: it's not going to happen.
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B: Yeah.
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A: So we built a cradle for it
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A: and we got once it was turned, we got one one cut out on the table saw, on the radial saw,
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A: by getting the other one out without the slice now flying in your face was something you had to think about
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B: Right.
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A: So,
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B: Now did you cut a quarter wedge in this?
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A: Uh, I'd say it's about an eighth.
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A: You know
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B: Well, I, I'm envisioning, uh, uh, a a watermelon like a log
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B: and then, uh, what I've seen of this kind before is you have the, uh, the, uh,
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B: it's, uh,
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