thank you. I love alternate ways of doing things. Imagination is powerful.

I peeled, cooked and mashed a potato and put it into a ceramic bowl. I pushed a heart shaped into the potato, remove it and then poured my pewter. The results were good enough to shape and finish for my purpose. Loved your video. Gave me inspiration to try without going to the trouble of making a silicon mold. I adapted you method as carving would be a challenge for me.

Ok this is brilliant! I love finding cheaper and/or more accessible ways to metalsmithing! Thank you

lol!! you don't need anything expensive but a durston roller would be handy. I love how your subconscious impulse at 09:54 shows what you were truly thinking. so funny and revealing yet so weak and vulnerable.

How awesome and smelling great. I’ll try this soon! Thanks!

A good tip if you don't want to carve into an expensive charcoal block just to make a few granulations. Worth knowing :-) Thanks for posting.

Very interesting and ingenious. I couldn’t keep my eyes off of the jewelry maker. You are so gorgeous.😊

Awesome idea! Thanks 🙏❤️

Amazing idea!!

Very interesting technic! thx a lot. this is very helpful video!

I am definitely going to try this, thank you😁.

wow, i am amazed!😊😀

Absolutely GENIUS!!! Just opened up so many ideas for me!!! Tysm!!

never seen this before cool

Wow, this is so cool, thanks! 👍 I just had a thought 💡🤔... I wonder if you could slice a piece of potatoe, use something similar to cookie cutters (but much smaller) to cut out a perfect shape, discard the shape but stack the slice back onto the potato, and melt the silver inside the shape without it leaking. 🤔 The possibilities would be endless if that would work! Thanks so much for the inspiration! Have a great day! 😀

This is reallyinnovative and fast thinking on the go. Yes why pay more for burning materials that eventually crumble as dies the charcoal block . Potato good to go instead ..definitely giving this a go . Many thanks for your creative problem solving and sense of thrift savings.

I just came up with something very similar. I've been using lump charcoal to make fine silver ingots to draw down to wire. I found a small mystery metal nugget in an old tool box that proved unforgable when annealed and could be worked hot, but because of the small size lost heat before significant shaping. The blob was also too small for gravity casting. I still had to find a way to use the nugget. I flattenned the sides of a couple lump charcoal blocks using a large file (flat rock would work). I carved a shape in the block i'd put on top. I covered the bottom block with homemade pripps flux and heated the metal to a runny ball, trapping it under the carved block. Leaving the blocks in place, I used a small brush to extinguish the charcoal block using more homemade pripps. The pripps fills the charcoal and slows its breaking down into ash. I found your video when I searched online to see if anyone else has thought of it. Awesome!!!

Amazing!! This is on my to-try list for 2020! Thanks for sharing. :)

Wow

Yay! My workshop is going to smell of chips again! 😹😹😹

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How much is subscription

Do you use borax to help melt the silver? Thank you.

Could make your own charcoal block out of a scrape piece of pine 2 x 4" lumber , by burning it in a fire ? Don't know , just thinking out loud .

Wow, yea Im going to melt all my scrap in a big potato while I wait for my charcoal block to come in the mail

Maybe an alternative to cuttlefish?

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