Your family is amazing! Thanks for stopping by and letting me play with your gold.

Thank you all for providing great content I subscribe to his channel

Beautiful! They all are. I subbed, too.

Looked like the Fraiser river in B.C. Don't know, am I close?

Gridlessness is hands down my favorite KZfaq channel. I love the Saturday mornings when I fire up my computer and see that a new Gridlessness video is in my KZfaq feed. You're right. They are very talented people. Without a doubt each member of that family is a quick study natural. Jeff and Rose have spent so much quality time with their children and it shows. All five of those girls are very special. The entire family is very special. They hunt, fish, work on cars, they off-road mud-bog in their 4x4's, they woodwork, metalwork, leatherwork, prospect for gold, build buildings, raise horses, goats, chickens, pigs, dogs, grow their own food, they not only play Ice hockey, but they built their own ice hockey rink on the property. Sarah and Abagail built their own tiny house. I know I'm leaving stuff out. They have all developed so many skills it can be hard to remember all the different things that they know how to do well. Jeff seems to be relentlessly thinking of new and more challenging projects for the family to work on or work towards. Jeff is an electrical engineer so naturally he's passing those skills along to his daughters. These girls have math skills that are (to say the least) very impressive. Jeff and Rose have said that this life they chose to live is not just about raising their children... but Jeff and Rose endeavor to raise five very special, unique, and exceptional human beings. I have been watching Jeff and Rose do this for quite some time now. From the outside looking in I can tell you that Jeff and Rose have definitely attained their loftiest goal already. Now if I were 18 again I would definitely be trying to figure out a way to meet my favorite Birkenshaw sister in hopes of possibly marrying her. But alas in this world that goal is truly unattainable. Besides... My favorite Birkenshaw sister changes all the time. So it's definitely for the best that I'm far too old for them. Anyway... All impossible dreams aside. If you haven't figure it out already... I really do L0VE the Birkenshaw family quite a lot. I suggest that everybody watch their channel and in turn do the best that they can do to emulate these good people. The more good people that can figure out a way to live their lives like The Birkenshaw family lives their lives... the faster the world will naturally become a much better place for all of us to live. Thanks to the Birkenshaw family... you have my subscription friend. Take care. sincerely, Dean O. :-I P.S. I'm sure that after awhile one or more of the Birkenshaw sisters will decide to get serious about goldsmithing. It will be one more gift added to a seemingly endless and impressive repertoire of Birkenshaw skills, aptitude's, and special accomplishments. Have a Happy New Year!

This by far is the closest I've come to replicating that ring, mostly just due to how much gold was used!

@@moderngoldsmith keep going and soon the ring will have powers

Literally man that ring almost didn’t leave your finger.

​@@moderngoldsmithone ring to rule them all One ring to find them One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

It must be cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came.

I hope he knows what he is doing forging that ring... a hobbit will have to take that to mount doom

lord of the ring or loss of the ring or lack of the ring or love of the ring

I thought the title said ‘From Middle Earth’ and I got excited 😅

I just discovered it. The One Ring spoke to me.

Wow thank you so much!! I’m not sure which ring was yours but I’m so happy that you love it! Happy new year!

I’m so happy to hear that! Thanks for watching :)

@@moderngoldsmith hi

Thanks Nicole! Same to you!

How did you do it? I have about two ounces and i would like to purify it to 22 k or so and make a ring so i can put it on my chain... But really difficult to do so without alot of expensive tools!

@@GOLD_FEVER I worked as a lab technician in an inorganic chemistry lab years ago so the chemistry is second nature to me. I inquarted the crude gold with fine silver until purity was less than 6k then dissolved all but the mostly pure gold in hot nitric acid, then dissolved the gold in aqua regia and precipitated it with sodium dithionite, and melted it into a bar in a crucible with a HHO torch. It does take proper lab equipment to refine gold safely - a reflux setup and fume hood are mandatory.

Let’s go!! Silver is the perfect starter metal. Less expensive and you can hone your skills. Then when you move to gold you’ll realize it’s even easier to work with, and that will make you really happy. Happy new year! Great job!

@Modern Goldsmith thank you and Happy New Year to you as well.

He also takes pride in his tools, which is a great combo.

It really was a fun experience!