old yank

Its pretty crazy that this is all that is left of the old Yankee Stadium. I took this picture when I went to the saturday game a few weekends ago on opening weekend.

I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting to hop the fence and run the bases.......and pretend I was Don Mattingly.

the new Yankee Stadium

Jose scored some amazing seats to today's game. Chris, Mike, Jose and myself will be pre-gaming on the upper east side and then taking the subway directly to the stadium...gotta love NYC.

see you in a few hours...

locks and locks

this is what has been keeping me busy lately.

Casting, Striking, Punching, Soldering, Chain-making, Sampling, Approving, Comparing to Drawings-ing, and Approving

Sometimes the rivets are struck/stamped into the little pieces of sterling silver or gold just as details. and sometimes they are all hand assembled. I like the ones that are hand assembled.

Last week I was up in our Rhode Island manufacturing facility and also visited our raw materials supplier. It feels great to know that not only does our raw precast bars and grain come from a supplier in the US, but that all of our manufacturing is done here and some in Europe. I love being able to visit the vendors in a day and sit down with the model makers and discuss changes that need to be made and then see the changes happen.