 My God, not that God. I couldn't sleep last night. It was terrible, at least for me. This guy was sleeping on the drive here, so he was alright. Yeah, I was crushed out, but I had a bit of a breeze. Yeah, but me, man, it was too hot last night. I tried turning on the bus and the AC and idling. Well, I guess what also doesn't work today, the air conditioning. Yeah, sucks, right? Also, we're stuck. And if you saw yesterday's video, you'll realize that I did mention this, but I didn't want to make it really bad. So once I felt the vehicle getting stuck, I just quit. So anyways, there's a nice guy that we met out here. He lives over here. He offered to give us a tow, but I'm not really sure if that's gonna work. See this? You know what that is? Well, if you guessed it's a piece of wood, you guessed wrong. This is gonna get us out of this stuck position. Just watch out. We got the piece of wood. I'm gonna try and drive on top of the wood, and Jake is gonna push. You'll see. And this is what I'm talking about. If I would have kept trying to plow through, that's really soft stuff. So, dude, thanks for your help, for the assist. Now I can breathe a sigh of relief. Well, it's hot out here. Laptop is on fire. So I got this to cool it down. By the way, we just been editing next to this killer view, and I gotta say, I've definitely had worse places to edit before. This is a great place to hang out. I'm just really glad that we got out of the sand earlier. So, oh, this is what I'm gonna have for lunch. Good old soup, and I'm gonna eat it just like this. Just gonna eat it nice and cold. Mmm, look at those lentils. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Cheers. Another amazing find in the Salton, well, I should say in Slab City, is a horn feather. A person will meet in a second, but he's making all this jewelry, all himself, and really with some amazing, amazing things here. All kinds of rocks, and he takes these buffalo horns and turns them into feathers carved. So, this is horn feather, everybody. Quite an interesting person, and he's gonna teach us how to make something today. I'm gonna teach you how to make these rings, you know. Now, these are bead rings, you know. They look a little complicated or wire-wrapped, right? But truly, very, very simple to make. Here, let's just go ahead and do that. I'm gonna knead. Let's see. I'll just use so it's easy to see this bright blue turquoise bead, right? I'm gonna take a piece of wire, about this long. What I'm using is a silver-covered copper. It's just copper. All the wire I use is copper. Very inexpensive, because after all, I'm not wrapping a diamond here. It's true. You know, and I'm gonna sell this thing for five bucks, and I'm gonna show you why. I'm gonna find the middle of it like this, and I'm gonna bend this wire down, and I'm gonna turn the pliers sideways and bend it back down. You see what I just did there? A little kinky. A little zee in it, right? Like a Zorro. Just like that. Just like Zorro, right? This is like a magic act. A magic trick. Okay? Now I'm gonna hold it upside down. I'm gonna bend this side over. Get what I'm doing here, as I am, basically capturing the stone in one spot, right? Right. And just like that. Oh, yeah. Interesting. So you held it in place there. Right. Yeah. Okay, now, I'm gonna take one of these. You can pick these up as, like, two annas or Michaels, or, you know, ten bucks or something like that, out of forever, you know, and never have to buy it again. You'll pair of pliers, and then wire in a bag of beads, right? What's this called? This is called a mandrel. Okay. And it's a plastic one. They make them in steel for doing sterling silver and stuff like that, but this is for doing wire wraps and things like that. So what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna look at your finger. All right, there we go. I got you. And I'm gonna start right about here, and I'm gonna go around it one time, and then around the beads, see? Oh. Now I'm gonna take this wire right here. I'm gonna bend it through the hole. I say this design is the most cleanest design most people have seen. See, I'm wrapping it around three times. See why I'm bending that metal? I'm bending it right there where it needs to bend. You know, right there, right there where it needs to bend. Nice and tight, right? Yeah, you wanna get it nice and tight, and one right next to the other. Don't overlap them, you know, because you want it to look neat and clean, right? Yeah. But, you know, it really doesn't matter, you know. I found that the more messed up a piece is, the more they seem to like it. Yeah. You know, if it's handmade, right? Yeah. More character. Yeah, it gives it character, and they like it better, right? So, on both sides, I usually leave this wire a little bigger. I kind of messed up, you know, but it's not gonna hurt anything. I'm gonna cut the other one to the same size, right? And then I'm just gonna take the end of that wire, and I'm gonna bend it in half together, see, nice and tight, and I'm just gonna roll it once, and then bend it for a finish. Nice. So that's so it doesn't poke you, and it has also an artistic look. Yeah, it gives it the finish with a little taste of Rosetta, because it's really used that as a test with my students. You know, I'll be making one, and we call this a rosette, and I'll tell you why, and I tell them it's good, and at the end of the thing, and I go, so why do we call it a rosette? And they go, because it looks like a thing, you know, right? Yeah. So now we go in at nine. Now, if you need to, sometimes they're gonna put it on and we're not getting married. Yeah. Just by looking at the finger. See, it's like playing baseball or hacky sack. So I looked at this finger, then I went straight to this, and it's something your brain does, you know? Yeah. If you allow it. Yeah. That's amazing. Well, thank you so much for teaching us how to do this, and I love what you're doing. I love that you're teaching people how to fish instead of giving them a fish. Well, you know, and I've given a few fish away too, but, you know, it's like I said, if I get somebody that's kind of destitute, you know, and I'll have them make three or four pieces, and then I'll just send them off with them, you know? Yeah. And I'm not gonna keep them, you know? And then if they can get one sold or two sold, and they might just go ahead and keep making them, you know? Yeah. And then all of a sudden they're going, wow, I can do this and it really helps. Yeah. Cool. So where could people find you if they want a custom piece? That's all I got to say about that. You know, catch me where you can, you know? Let's see, this year, this year up to date, I was in, I started in open Arizona and then I went to San Diego. Then I went back to open Arizona, and then I went to Bisbee, Arizona, Tombstone, Silver City, Browns, and Texas. Yeah. And spent a couple of weeks down there, you know, just checking them out. I heard it was 65 miles of undisturbed coastline that you can camp on for free for up to 51 days. 51, wow. Oh yeah, yeah, well, you know, and then yeah, there's the North Island where you can pay $12 and 50 cents and you can camp for like three days here, three days here, three days here, and then start over again. So you can pretty much stay on the beach down there for nothing. Yeah, right. I like it. And how long have you been on the road as a nomad? About 15 years now. That's when my hip and shoulders went bad since then. I've had my upper place. Yeah. You know, more better. Yeah. Well, I like it. You have it all figured out. You own your own business. You travel full-time. I don't know what it all figured out. You know, it's still, I don't care what you do. It's a hand-to-mouth operation. You know, sometimes I'm way up and sometimes I'm way down. You know, yeah. Well, you have a lot of knowledge that you could share with the young people who want to live and travel in a van. That's for sure. Well, yeah, you know, it's like I said, you're a plier, you roll a wire, you can buy this leather for $7.50 at the Wannas or Michaels. It comes in a big bag. You get about 100 bracelets out of it, right? Oh, yeah. That's amazing. You know, so it's all, you know, one of these little rings, you know, pretty much cost you about 17 cents. Yeah, yeah. Wow. And you... It's, when I travel, I like to buy handmade things from the place I'm in, because everything these days is made in China. Everything's factory made. Everything's, you know... I can chime in and I admire them people for their work ethic. Right? You know, more Americans would think like that, you know, start using their hands again. You know, I'm serious about that. You know, we're all doing this with our thumbs, you know. My nieces and nephews and a couple of their friends are there. And they're all going like this, and I said, so who are you talking to? And they all went like that from here, so, you know, and I'm like, Jesus Christ, you know, what's this world coming to? Yeah. Thank you. Sweet. But yeah, I love it. I love picking up a unique one-of-a-kind piece, and I think a lot of young people like to do that, you know, these days as well. So... Well, you know, every time I do this, it takes off in a new direction. You know, each person comes up with their own style, come up with their own ideas, you know, and I learned from them too. So, you know, yeah, you know, stuff I would have never thought of. Yeah. You know, it's like one day I had this guy, a piece of bone, you know, he wants to carve his first blank, right? And instead, he comes back with a cut of a bird. Wow. And then carves that and I'm going, all right. That's cool. And now I know how to do those, you know, yeah. And will you show us the horn feathers? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Does he have one? Yeah. I mean, this is what you are named after. Yeah, exactly. Well, here, let's have a little fun with it. I'm going to give you a tour of what I'm actually doing. All right. Right now, I just stop here to make stuff, right? This is the immature I have left after San Diego. That's pretty good inventory. There's a little leather bracelets and hand carved. I carved them all with a file, triangle file, right? Now, these are buffalo horn to work. And these are made out of buffalo horns. This is a buffalo's horn, yeah. And then you hand carve these into feathers. Right? I hope that's what they look like. They're calling me the wrong thing. Maybe it should be leaf feathers. I mean, leaf horn or whatever. I don't know. But I think they look like feathers, you know? I think so, too. And then some of them are bracelets, or most of them are bracelets. These will all be bracelets, right? But then I make, you know, beautiful. These are the tips of a deer antler, right? I take the deer antler button found in here and sculpt them a little bit. And then I enlighten them. I like it. It's great stuff. This feather was on my cane for nine years. Wow. I just cut the cane up. It was caraboo, Twaya cactus. It was my walking stick. Oh, fun. Right? And I just cut it up because I'm going to use the caraboo. I'll have this is a piece I got in New Mexico about six years ago. I use it sparingly. It's a Cape water buffalo, you know, horn, right? That's from the Cape water buffalo. This is a chunk of big horn sheep. Many different kinds of of the animals, you know? I'll get you fine land on the ground and stuff or in somebody's yard or you know. Yeah. Yeah. That's amazing. I mean, get me to buy that one piece of bullhorn for like 20 bucks or something, you know? Yeah. And I buy them for $6 a piece and if I buy 100, I'm going to get them for three. Wow. You know, so I'm not going to buy one for 20. And I'm trying to explain to them that, you know, hey, I can show you how to make some money with that. Right. You know? And they said they might be back. We'll see. Yeah. That's amazing.