I toyed with calling this entry "Indiana Jones and the Holey Grail", but eventually decided against it on account of A) copyright infringement, B) puns are the lowest form of humor and C) Indy looks better in the hat than I do.
We recently had a swath of ceremonial chalices come in for repair. The jobs ranged from fixing a snapped stem and reassembling the entire piece to simply "make it shiny". I will walk us through the repair adventure of the chalice shown below, wherein we will learn how to build a precise supportive sleeve and also discover what kind of innuendo can be derived from making screw threads.
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| The finished chalice |
