February 22On Monday I was traveling from Dallas, Texas to San Diego, California so I was not in school on then. February 23Tuesday was my first day back in 5 days, so when I came back Rachel and I got started right away. She taught me how to sand the rings so it has a smoother finish then the other sanding machine we tried. The new way we did it, is attaching our ring to the Lathe, and getting a sanding tool. You have to turn the Lathe on a low setting, around 120 and you put the sander on the areas you want. This is a much better option because you have a lot more control of what you are doing and since the ring is spinning instead of the sander spinning, it allows you to get a smoother finish. After we smoothed the ring on both sides and on the inside, we moved into Mikes room to get the Vinyl. As we did last week, we made our sketch of the design/word we wanted on the ring and after many different attempts trying to print it right, we finally got it to work on the heat press vinyl. The only problem was that the letters didn't stick to the ring, so we held it to the ring, and tried out the heat gun to see if it would "melt" the Vinyl onto the ring, so it attaches to it. It worked, so from there we went outside and spray painted the ring black, and peeled off the vinyl. We were debating whether or not we should have left the ring with the black because we really liked the way it looked. That was all we did Tuesday since it was an X-block day schedule. February 24Wednesday we started off with putting the ring in acid. Twenty minutes later, we took it out and the etch looked really good. We took off the black spray paint, and showed it to Mike, Scott, and Rachel at the front desk. We showed the two girls our rings, and they immediately asked for 2 to buy and handed us the money. Both Rachel (my partner) and I realized how good of a business this could be, so we are deciding to sell rings at school. Today we also got the sketch of Paris's ring and printed it out on the same white vinyl and used the heat gun to stick it to the ring. We then spray painted her ring the same black and peeled off the vinyl with hers too. On Wednesday we also talked to a few people and went over to HTM to ask what we should use to seal the rings so the metal doesn't rub off on your finger. Most of the people we asked didn't have an option that was easy and available to us, so we decided to go with clear nail polish to finish the coat and so far, it is working well. February 25Thursday Rachel and I started coming up with ideas for our business as we waited for Paris's ring to etch in the acid. We also went into Liberty Station and bought clear coat nail polish to seal the rings. We re-did the coat multiple times so it didn't have a thick, goopy look to it, and so there were no air bubbles on the ring. After taking out Paris's ring, we then took off the black spray paint and coated hers too. After finishing with both of those, we then took some pictures of the ring for our future flyers for marketing our business. February 26Friday I worked on my blogs the entire period with Rachel, so we didn't work on rings today.
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