Off Hours

A Rather Destroyed Aston Martin

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Chris returns from the Goldsmiths’ Company Jewellery Materials Congress. He and Jon discuss Crown Jewels, gold jugs, and the horrible things people do to nice cars.

  • Santa Fe Sympoaium Papers Papers from the 2019 Santa Fe Symposium have been posted
  • The Goldsmiths’ Company Jewellery Materials Congress Chris delivered a paper on niello at the congress in July
  • The Goldsmiths’ Company
  • Dr. Robert Organ
  • Detection of Fake Antique Silver Plate Dr. Organ’s paper presented at the 2017 Santa Fe Symposium
  • Kicked Out by Royalty Chris recounted his behind the scenes tour of the Goldsmiths’ Company back in episode 17
  • Eddie Bell Founder of Rio Grande & the Santa Fe Symposium
  • Niello Papers Chris’ papers presented at the Santa Fe Symposium
  • The Crown A Netflix original series, many scenes of which were filmed in the hall that Chris delivered his presentation in

    • Jewellery Materials Congress Presenters
    • Teresa Frye Founder of TechForm, Teresa delivered a presentation on platinum at the congress
    • Why Use a Platinum-Cobalt Alloy?

      • Martyn Pugh Creator of the micro-alloyed 24ct gold & titanium Claret Jug that Chris is holding in the picture above
      • What is a Claret Jug?
      • Crown Jewels Chris got up close with the Crown Jewels during the Jewellery Materials Congress
      • Globe Theater As authentic as it gets to catch a Shakespearian play
      • White Swan A pub
      • Millennium Bridge
      • St. Paul’s Cathedral
      • Grant Macdonald Official website of one of England’s foremost master goldsmiths
      • Formlabs Grant Macdonald employs Formlab printers in his studio
      • Maxim Lobovsky Co-founder of Formlabs
      • Neutec Casting Both Grant & Chris use Neutec vacuum casting machines in their work
      • Solid Silver Audi Thanks to some sleuthing by Snopes, turns out this was a hoax
      • EnvisionTec 3D Printers Along with the Formlabs printers, Grant Macdonald also uses EnvisionTec printers for finer detailed work
      • Secret Cinema Chris attended a Secret Cinema production of Casino Royale while in London
      • Casino Royale
      • Moonraker
      • Octopussy
      • Hello Internet Goes to the Secret Cinema CGP Grey & Brady Haran catch a Secret Cinema rendition of Blade Runner
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