We saved the worst part for last.

It's ah, it's something that Bill and I have both struggled with in the past.

The the idea is we need a 1/16 inch rod of music wire that is hardened and tempered steel.

And then at the end of it, we need a tiny little flat piece like this one right here.

And this is one that I've made in the past, and I actually silver saw turd that piece of metal on.

But let me tell you, that probably took me a couple of hours to get it right.

It really did take me a couple of many, many attempts.

They really don't take a lot of tour before they'll start to shear off, and it's it's a problem.

So So this is something we're gonna have to think about a little bit, Bill, you're gonna have to stop drinking so much.

I'm sorry.

Okay, Well, it's worth it.

If this turns out, it'll be worth it to stop drinking for 10 or 15 minutes.

Okay.

We'll celebrate afterwards.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, let's Ah, let's do some research.

Let's head downstairs and, uh, see what we can.

D'oh!

All right.

Okay, folks, we are back upstairs, and we were successful in building what I think is a really high quality tip.

We went through a lot of different possibilities trying to decide how we were going to build this.

And I think a couple of them are worth noting beforehand.

A couple of our rejected ideas.

Yeah, because it's not a complete rejection.

And I'll tell you why a lot of you guys are still using these style picks.

And so, being Bill, I hit too easy.

Button and I went directly to accompany you guys have heard of before spooks and then a couple of reviews of their picks and make great stuff.

And they also make great replacement tips for these Chinese picks.

So a lot of guys will buy these, pull that tip out, throw it away, and put in one of these very nicely.

If I can get him apart here.

Come on.

Focus.

Very nicely finished silver sauntered pick tips.

He knows how narrow and thin that is.

There's no question you can precisely place that on one disc at a time.

So great, unfortunately, bought several of them.

But as you can see, they're not quite long enough for the tool that we have designed.

Well, fortunately, spooks also makes this guy.

This is a replacement tip for the Jaco pick.

The difference, of course, is that the shaft on the Jaco pick is 1/8 of an inch diameter, and we're looking for 1/16.

We could always, I guess, modify that, but unfortunately, also not quite long enough, so we had to reject that.

But if you're looking simply to replace a tip in one of these, I'd urge you to take a look at the spooks website rather than try to make one yourself.

But I agree I've used them before in the past.

No problems, as faras strength or usability goes, is very good.

So here's what we ended up doing, and this actually came from a suggestion that I got on Twitter.

We started rather with one of these rather than a salad bar of steel.

These are ejector pens that are used in injection molding.

What they do is is the very little tip down here.

We'll go through the side of a mold and pop out apart after it's molded.

This whole thing is made of one piece of hardened and tempered steel, so we're already part of the way there.

So we just took one of these.

We machined the this little knob on the end down to about 20 thousands of an inch, about half a millimeter and then sanded off the ends.

Used files to get it to the final shape.

And and frankly, I am very happy with the final result.

You think this is gonna work well, one piece of metal.

Let's look much less chance of any kind of sharing Everything.

Plus the length works in our favor.

So and it's the right diameter.

It's the best of all worlds.

It just took a little bit of figuring out a little bit of waiting as we ordered through the Internet, but it worked out, but I'm glad we did way.

I'm glad we paid attention to to other people's suggestions.

Yeah.

So this thing has has come together.

Do we have anything left to D'oh?

Well, um, we gotta get off of here.

We gotta put this thing together and maybe give a demo real quick.

Oh, this thing has to work.

It's gotta What?

It was supposed to look pretty.

It will look pretty while it's working about that.

Okay.

All right, guys, stick around.

We'll be back.