to go backwards or slow it down. So
what are you going to do? It’s like
getting on a rollercoaster. Once the
thing starts you’re on for the ride.
So I hear you’re into surfing.
Yeah, I started when I was like ten or
eleven years old. I surfed all the way
up until my wife and I started hav-
ing kids. Then I found I couldn’t get
to the beaches as often as I’d like to.
Now that they’re all grown and out
of the house; I think it’s been since
2000 that I’ve been surfing pretty
regularly again. Now I travel and surf
at other places. Before I used to only
surf the summertime at the Jersey
Shore as a kid growing up; I couldn’t afford a wetsuit or anything. Now I
have a van that’s customized with a surf rack, I can change in there into
my wetsuits. I go to the beach and I don’t know what the waves looked
like until I got there. Well I have a board for every occasion.
You do engraving…
That I started in 2010. I was always fascinated with that type of artwork
too. Especially when I’d use to see firearms with engravings. The type of
quality work they could do on a firearm or a shotgun or something like
that was super amazing to me that it was done on metal. It’s called en-
graving? Oh, I’m going to go buy a Dremel and try that. You know what, it
didn’t work. It would scratch the metal, vibrate and dent it. It wasn’t the
quality I was looking for. I figured there had to be something to it.
How are they getting this with that? So I bought one of those really high
speed, like 35,000 RPMs or something, with the dentist burrows and
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