[Jewelry making - Article 00081] - Re: [Orchid] Strange Customer Requests

[larryeda]

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Strange Customer Requests

    A number of years ago I was running a sculpture studio in Los
    Angeles. A guy walked in and told me he owned the largest pearl in
    the world-- worth $43 million dollars! It was a famous pearl
    apparently, having accrued names like the "Pearl of Siam," and many
    others, over the years. There were nemerous stories connected it,
    filled with intrigue, murder, etc. 

    The guy wanted me to make an exact copy of it so that he could take
    it on television in a bid to sell it. So I had to go to a bank vault
    in Burbank with all my mold-making materials in order to cast this
    thing. 

    It was really not pretty! It was as big as a softball, and had many
    pearlescent bumps on it, and it looked like a brain to me. But,
    under the scrutiny of the bank's security force, I made may mold,
    went back to the shop, and created a copy. I used polyester resin
    with pearlescent pigments, and I had to fill it with bb's in order to
    make it weigh as much as the original. 

    Customer was happy, and I never saw him again. I wonder if he sold
    it... 

Larry Heyda
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