 Hi, I'm Rob Day from Jack's Abbey here with my friend Sarah from Randolph Engineering and this is another episode of Shipping Out. Sarah, thank you so much for having us here today. It's awesome to check out your place and see what you're up to. Why don't you tell our audience who you are and what you do here. Great to have you here. My name is Sarah Dacco. I am third generation here at Randolph Engineering and I am the general manager of one of our brands here. Tell us sort of the start of Randolph Engineering, how this business got going, how you end up being third generation to begin with. So my grandfather many years ago immigrated from Poland and started working at a tool and die manufacturing company. Along came a co-worker, which became a very good friend of his in the future. His name was Stanley Sileski and my grandfather was Jan Foskewicz. The two of them really hit it off. They started making tool and die manufacturing for other eyewear brands and other eyewear companies years ago. And in probably the late 70s they worked on the aviator and created a couple other styles and started bidding on military contracts and started winning those contracts. I love that. There's a lot of do it yourself, do something different. What makes your eyewear special? What makes it unique? Our eyewear actually starts out on a spool of wire. It actually goes through a 200 step process and takes six weeks to make. We actually make some of our tools whenever we have a new style that comes in, our machine shop actually makes the tooling to manufacture the new styles that come out. Another aspect that makes us unique is we use 23 karat gold plating, so jewelry like finishes on our product. It is not the norm for the industry. Usually it's a flash coating or it's a fake gold. It's evident. You're making jewelry, quality, eyewear. How did that come about? Yeah, it's a little bit from our history. So the military had very strict specifications for their product. So we, you know, the founders could choose to change that recipe and sell it to the consumer. But we actually decided to change nothing and provide the same quality to our consumer that we provide to the military and that we still provide to the military today. Everything you're making is right here in Massachusetts, which is pretty impressive. What's it like to run a factory and do manufacturing? It seems pretty thrilling to have makers creating goods here. So what's it like for you? Every piece of that sunglass is really just being hand soldered or hand inspected. So one can say that, you know, no two are the same. It's been a really fun, you know, journey to be able to be part of a product that takes, you know, such a process to create. Yeah, that's incredible. And I hope there's a lot of good stuff out there in the future for you. What are you most excited about? Next year it's our 50th anniversary. All right, cheers to that. I know, right. Cheers. Which is really exciting. So, you know, Randolph for the future, there's going to be some things that look very different and some things that look very much the same, but it's going to be exciting. Very cool. We're excited to see what you come up with and thanks for the time today. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Cheers.