I have to say I am a sucker for skills. Nun-chuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills....learning new skills is where it's at. Recently I learned how to gold plate, and though I've never been much for gold until a short time ago, this particular process made me feel like a magician. In a nutshell, this is how it works: you stick your silver or base metal piece in a chemical solution, turn on a machine hooked to chord holding an electric charge which is holding on to another metal thing which is also submerged in said chemical, turn on voltage, turn off after 30 seconds or so, rinse, submerge both in another chemical, turn on the voltage, hope you don't get electrocuted (to an outsider I'm sure this sounds less than safe) and BLAM! Your silver jewelry is now gold! (Ok, so its not that simple, and there is much science to chemical mixing and temperature and voltage and such, but I know y'all don't want me to bore you with those details.) To see something turn gold in front of your very eyes makes you feel like King Midas! Even for someone who isn't much for gold, there's just something about that power of transformation.
Just moments ago, this jewelry was silver!
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