Yes, and I seriously doubt this is for moderate to severe loss. Most aids for that category get custom molds of the ear canal. Very likely this is about getting approval for the hearing test and subsequent audio curves.
As a hearing aid wearer myself, I would question the validity of this as a viable alternative to real hearing aids for moderate to severe loss.
Of course many people with hearing loss will use these instead of getting professionally tested and fitted.
This is what I do… find a comfortable position, then start relaxing all of your muscles.
Start with your toes .. given them a wiggle and relax them. Slowly move up your body into your torso… then down your arms, and finally your neck and head.
I’m usually out before I get to my arms.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19200551
Took this the other day a bit before the rain moved in.
Took this the other day a bit before the rain moved in.
This is a great movie!
This stone was cut by my son using his own design. YAG is a man made crystal used in lasers. Most YAG that cutters get comes from rejected crystal that didn't meet specs.
None of these pictures do it justice as it had almost as much fire as my wife's engagement ring.
I’ve used dental wax for years to hold the stones to the dop and it does a good job as long as you don’t use too much force when cutting. The key to using the wax is to make sure you heat both the stone and dop enough for the wax to adhere. You can tell that has done so when the wax edge no longer seems to curl under and instead seems to have a clean line with the surface.
I’ve used super glue as well depending on the situation… but the cure time and difficulty in getting it off the dop and cleaning the stone of the residue makes it not worth it in my opinion.
This is interesting... I would not have considered using some of the tools of the trade for the purposes you have outlined.
You can see and read about some of the equipment I use in this post. I did a whole series of posts around how I cut stones.
In terms of equipment, there is a pinned post in this community that has some links as well.
Happy to answer any questions you might have.
Nope, this stone and its siblings were given to me to cut.
Been super busy with life, but finally got back to cutting. This is the second of four chrome diopside stones I'm cutting.
Amazing and intense. One of the best I’ve ever witnessed.
Second this
Non-cloud cams with an nvr all the way. I won’t touch the cloud based services. My go to is currently Reolink.
You did an absolutely stunning job on this one!!!
Now you are motivating me to finally try my hand at frosting a cut.
Love that color...nice work!
Unfortunately this stone has a fracture and inclusion right at the cutlet.
Nothing I could do, so decided to finish the stone and hope it held together. Here is another view of the pavilion.
I like the color, too bad the light return wasn’t what I was looking for.
This is one of the most perfect cuts I've managed. The meet points are all as perfect as I could get, as well as the polish. I chose a more standard round cut than what my son designed as I wanted to lighten the stone more due to the overall color saturation of the material.
I'm going to cut a second calibrated to match, and get them set for my wife.
My son has really started to get into faceting. He bought a boule of hydrothermal emerald(man made) as he wanted to cut a design he made specific to emerald.
He sliced the emerald in half and gave me one half while he cut his up into the sizes he was going to facet.
I was mostly hands off with this and only really helped out when his stone popped off the dop. He did a great job!
I totally agree with everything you said here. I just cannot imagine wearing ear buds for 15-18 hours straight every day as a solution for my hearing loss. I almost don't even notice my aids in my ears anymore.
PSA: Take care of your ears everyone, hearing loss sucks big time.