Debbie, I took a three day 10:00 - 5:00 cab class with Michael Boyd. It was a GREAT class. Metalwerx charged $550.00 for that or $650.00 for the advanced 4 day class. He did bring quite a bit of equipment with him ( DP carving station and I think Metalwerx had 5 genies, 2 flat laps for polishing, and 2 saws, much of it supplied by DP for demo/sales purposes, I believe. He also brought carving kits he sold to us, cabbing kits he sold to us, his excess rough and slabs and offered it for sale to us at low prices even by wholesale gemshow standards - small sized very gemmy good quality rose quartz, lapis, kyanite, imperial topaz, optical quartz, vintage natural (not irradiated)blue topaz, some decent quality Indian ruby, etc. He explained he buys large vintage estate lots in the US or wholesale lots at the mines overseas and then after he takes out what he will use, lets his students buy it from him for basically the rate he paid for it. But obviously, this is a good way to recoup money when the lots is so good it’s worth buying the whole bit just for the top stones. Also, after the class, you could buy the genies used in the class and carveing stations at a discount. I would assume he gets a small bonus for those sales too, but don’t really know. So another way for you to make money might be to contact DP, if you haven’t already done so, and see if there is $ to be made if you demo on their equipment. Bobby1, you are obviously doing it to help people because it sure isn’t for the money! Those are Community Service salaries. Been there, done that for school Chess club, through the town’s Community Services Department ( and donated the salary back to the club,) but we considered it volunteer work!