Handling fragile neon signs

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craft

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it's a fragile product that you've got

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to be careful with it's not something

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that you can throw around whoever you've

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got working with you on it has to be

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very careful with it has to learn how to

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handle neon the colors and the matching

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of colors and the the the way colors can

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mean something in what you're portraying

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it's really something that you you think

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about a lot don't you as as things are

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being put together I always say that

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neon is our favorite color you gradually

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work your way up from from little

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drawings and sketches up into s full

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scale drawings once you've drawn that up

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and you're happy with it you um take it

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into the glass up we Bend these pure

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sodium straight canes of glass which are

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made from Sand so we basically bend over

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th000 Dee burners these bits of glass we

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actually Inlet the gases in the Arun or

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the Neon gas which we're breathing in

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now it's a pure gas and then we charge

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it with voltage and then obviously we're

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there you've got that set

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when you charge that sign up you go wow

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it's alive cuz sometimes it can fail it

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can have a crack in it you know you can

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overheat the glass it sort of dies on

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you and you got to start a game but it's

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yeah you get a Bast you do get a charge

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yourself it's no surprise that God's Own

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junkyard has a long list of famous fans

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from around