Wow, expensive lighting!

Which aren't made of earth.

Go for it. At the stated price, you' could make a fortune.

It does confuse me when Americans say shop - I assume that's short for workshop? In the UK a shop is where you buy things.

All education is a waste of resources. People should learn on the job. Then they'd learn what they really need to know, and could start work far earlier in life.

Which is why they're so rare...

The 17 rare-earth elements are cerium (Ce), dysprosium (Dy), erbium (Er), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), holmium (Ho), lanthanum (La), lutetium (Lu), neodymium (Nd), praseodymium (Pr), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), scandium (Sc), terbium (Tb), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), and yttrium (Y).

On 8/4/2020 6:56 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote: ...

I don't think I'd want my heart surgeon training that way, sorry...

Rare earth metals and magnets aren't actually rare. 60 Minutes did a segment on that in their latest season.

Then you will never learn. When was the last time you worked?

Deliberate sidetracking with insults doesn't help your argument.

That would be even less useful information.

Nevermind "magnets", what about magnets?

On the job does not mean with live patients.

It looked pretty standardised to me.

Well get making and selling then!

Well, you're not "on the job" then, yet.

So all the anatomy and chemistry lessons are unneeded first?

"I don't think so..."

You can be in employment. I once worked in a Sky TV call centre. No experience necessary, they took a month to teach people what they needed to know.

Those should be done at the place of employment, not in a school or university.

"One of the benefits of creating hand-machined and hand-assembled lighting is having a facility where we can show our process to our clients and other lighting enthusiasts."

But, looking at the web site which also says specifically

"In 2011, a small team with a big passion for design embarked upon a mission to bring a fresh perspective on lighting technology to an industry poised for change. Juniper would soon become one of the early pioneers of the burgeoning Brooklyn contemporary lighting scene..."

"Today, Juniper is a fully-integrated design and manufacturing studio. Honesty, passion, and craftsmanship are fundamental in our quest to bring upscale architectural lighting to homes, offices, and hospitality spaces worldwide. Juniper has recently expanded its location as an architectural lighting company into a New York showroom and manufacturing facility in Connecticut."

If you're going to support that kind of high-end product, volume is necessarily going to be low and margins will have to be high to make things work...until the niche market becomes large enough the knockoffs show up, anyway.

I'd guess there are a lot of laser slotters there or they buy the tubing already slotted from the manufacturer.

I thought you meant I could say "I want one that looks like this". But the page seems to suggest you just get the hexagon.