Comments by "Me Here" (@mehere8038) on "How $13,000 Paperweights Are Made The Oldest Crystal Factory in France | Still Standing" video.

@diogeneskoolaid8437 or how about letting the grandson make his own decisions instead of indoctrinating him into YOUR ideals of what he should do because of your "wokeness phobia"
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@jamesbizs why would it be horrible? They've now found themselves in a position where they can't enjoy them anymore anyway & have to keep them locked up, which probably breaks their hearts, making the sale so as to watch their grandson's success instead of the crystal they used to be able to watch & enjoy. Sounds perfect to me!
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that was my thought too! gloves, whatever, injuries are immediate, but inhaling doesn't show for 20+ years!
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oh that's easy, you buy a $13,000 paper weight or 2. Weren't you watching the video?
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@DWB_Plays_Canada When I did a welding course, I used one close fitting leather glove & one proper welding glove. I chose the close fitting one because it gave me more control, but after touching literally red hot metal, I discovered why welding gloves are not close fitting. Welding gloves are designed to be able to easily flick off if needed. There is no reason being coated in glass would change this ability to flick off quickly if using properly designed welding/molten glass gloves that are specifically designed to be quickly & easily removed if immersed in molten metal or glass. I also can't see how there would be any difference in ability to quench a hand with a glove on compared to just a hand, would be exactly the same thing if the glove couldn't be removed, stick the gloved hand into water until the glass cooled, then break it & remove the glove. That would pretty obviously cause far less injury to break the glass on the outside of the glove than to break the glass that's directly against the burning skin!
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well that's just dumb imo the idea of these sorts of purchases is they're supposed to be so insanely expensive that you keep them as an investment & use them only on rare occasions with guests, so as to avoid lead poisoning. By buying cheap versions with no potential to increase in value, you lose investment potential & increase the chance you will use them so regularly that it will impact your health
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yup & presumably that or polymer clay would be used as training in the process
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@jgcelliott1 this! Additionally they said that only 5 in their company have trained to the level of making something (forgotten what it was now) which would simply relate to the number of staff required to make the number of that object sold, would be similar to the globe making story also on this channel where those doing it need to be doing it constantly or losing the skill, so only the number needed for their sales are trained in it
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hence why they charge so much that no-one's game to use them in case they get broken
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well where I live, we still get local papers & junk mail delivered to letterboxes, or rather left on top of them for everyone in the unit block, so here a "paperweight" is a brick that's left there for them to put the papers under, so as to stop them blowing all over the street
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mask is the issue, not gloves!
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@retroman5383 exactly! gloves aren't really an issue, masks are!
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@saturnpattern4244 Do you really believe there is a "safe" lead ingestion level? I guess one good thing about this is that the lead exposure problem is biggest in children, so in most of the world it's probably not something children are having problems with. I doubt many adults are giving their kids wine in crystal glasses. For the tiny minority who potentially are, maybe that explains their failure to listen to their instincts & not go onto a submersible that is clearly not built to be safe
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And I've already seen & added to the same comment here as I did there, saying exactly the same thing. I really don't care about gloves (or shoes) or think they're a huge issue, since the effects of not wearing them are immediate. The problem is the lack of breathing protection, because it takes 20+ years for those effects to present. Really mind blowing that they are not wearing masks while grinding lead crystal glass here! (I said the same thing in the Indian bracelet video, but I think this one is worse, cause there is certainly the profit margin & increased regulations that should prevent the problem here! Not to mention none of the heat issues that were present in the Indian one, these guys can afford air conditioning, plus the dangerous inhalation exposure work in this one is totally unrelated to hot work, heat being the reason given for no masks in the Indian one)
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@jayleno2192 do you honestly think people are getting less lead from drinking out of containers made from it than they are from exposure to small amounts of it in painted walls? It is lead painted walls that cause some of the most common intellectual disabilities in children exposed to it, I hardly think they're ingesting more from licking walls than they would be from drinking from lead glasses!
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The idea is that they charge so much that no-one is game to actually use it :) Has to remain just on display, cause it's too valuable to eat/drink from :)
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@Josephsflock and you believe it's safe because a company's youtube video tells you so? I mean I guess it's probably no worse than drinking chemical solvents that go into non-stick cookware etc - all of which were claimed safe by the company & proven cancerogenic, much like lead (although lead causes brain damage instead)
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