CAN YOU FORGE SOLID GOLD?!?!
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all tools used in this project increased in price by $100
😂😂 Somewhat true though because he almost welded his hammer to it
His hand.?
That includes the brick in the forge
The forge too
@@dylanmcvicker8330 dat a joke?
What I learned about forging gold from this video:
- It’s phenomenal
- It’s like butter
It was heated
@@kobejordan5518 Kobe come back
Coz it’s gold ya nonce, try using steel
@@ozkan576 I Will in time reckoning is coming soon.
@@kingbr3adbin239 it's a joke you moody cheesecake.
The name "upsetting" for that process makes a lot of sense.
To be fair, I'd be pretty upset if someone threw me in a fire and that ended up making me shorter and fatter.
That's a golden comment! And so true.
Yeah.
@@Breeze700 dad?
My broke ass cried watching him sand that gold down 😭
Yeah me too. Id be catching the sparks on my tongue.
he had a bucket under it catching all the gold doe
@clg632012 no he didn't lol, the sanders blows wind down cuz of the movement of the paper, meaning everything gets pushed in the bucket
@clg632012 the only amount probably lost was the gold that stuck to the belt in all actuality he wouldnt be that dumb to forget the bucket and if he was he probably swept the floor and collected it after by panning it out in water
@@ghosthunter0404 You wouldn't pan it out in water, you would refine it using sulphuric acid, like they do in the jewellery trade. Workshops and jewellers generally clean their spaces either once a week or before swapping metals (mixing metals is bad juju) or even every morning, depending on how pedantic you're being. They collect the metal and refine it. I worked with an old man that rented a workshop that had belonged to a jeweller that died (or something) and he tore up the carpets and refined the gold in them. Used that to buy the majority of his starting tools.
Congrats on the 1Mill Alex it's the hardest million to get is the first.
Thank you Colin 🙏
Colin and Alec should do a collaboration
Suburban King yeah that would be awesome
i watch both every time they upload and love both of them
ayyy colin
Something you might consider doing with the shavings. Carve out a design in a handle, mix the gold into epoxy and fill the carving. Sand smooth and you have some beautiful gold inlay
carve your touch mark in the handle and do the gold inlay.
Or just use a clean soldering pen to melt the gold dust into the grooves before sealing it in with the epoxy
you could do that, but the problem with melting gold the applying it to the wood is that wood starts to burn at about 150 degrees C. Gold melts just above 1050 C. This isnt ideal as it will char the wood under the gold, which will give it a flimsy foundation and eventually lead to the inlay coming out. You might lose a little bit of gold in the sanding process, but when mixed into the epoxy, at least you dont need to worry about losing all of the gold.
Make less of the gold-epoxy-mix, put a layer of clear epoxi on top, lose (almost) no gold to sanding?
Next video: Damascus Gold, Silver and Platinum knife.
Lol
Why do they continue to call pattern welding “Damascus” when Damascus steel is Crucible steel? It was all a mistake in an American forging textbook.
@@SvenTviking and isn't the pattern from the chemical properties that were unique to where they got the metal?
Not possible due to the melting points or each of the metals. Silver melts at 940 degress Celsius and platinum wouldn't even have become dull orange at that temperature. Also platinum is extremely hard to weld with other metals besides platinus metals. As for the gold/silver combo, the silver would melt into the gold over prolonged exposure to heat and you would get electrum.
@@godleveleldritchblast5257 the last part is incorrect, gold with silver Mokume gane exists
You haven't finished the gold knife, and it's been almost a full year.
Get called out for your antics Alec.
You really think he kept it? Gold isn't cheap, I'm sure he sold the knife right after to get some of that money back, that's why he kept all the dust he filed off. Just used it for this video. I could be wrong, I wouldnt blame him tho.
Cause he is too occupied with shouting and screaming around pointlessly.
Maybe if he would spend less time emulating a cocaine addict and more time actually doing stuff something worthwhile would come from it ...
@Carlos Hipolito Fell free to stop reading.
@Carlos Hipolito Feel free to visit a clever come back course.
Alec I actually have an idea on what to do with the gold filings that you saved so that none is wasted. Try to get a little crucible so you can melt it down, pour it out in a long string (probably make a little mold) so you basically have a gold wire. And then make a standard wood handle for the little gold knife, and carve inlay into it and lay in the gold wire!
I think that would be phenomenal!
That was my idea, too. I hope he will do it.
I really hope he does it
Nice
i'm a blacksmith. no frigging way would i be hammering on 4 grand of gold like that. you sir have a larger wallet, and larger balls than i, and i salute you random brittish guy.
I don't see how people don't understand it's an investment to make money with ads and what not.
High Strangeness I am confident he lost money on this specific video....
@@JohnSmith-uo8fg Yeah you make roughly £1000 per million views not including his sponsorships. So he'd have gained 2.5k off viewing ads and maybe more off sponsorships. This was a 3.2k piece of gold. But he's a sound guy he doesn't do it solely for money, he clearly enjoys what he does
He has CZcams and a shop
He is not a random guy
I've never seen this level of enthusiasm from a blacksmith before, and I'm here for it.
I would cry with ever stroke of the file
Now you have to enchant it with Durability IV
xFlacksh0t sharpness IV and fire aspect II
And it still only lasts about four or five hits.....
Soul capture...
Get the infinite enchantment plugin on a server and make it Unbreaking 1000
@@thelegendaryarrox5559 If you're going to go that route.... just cast it in tinkers and put five unbreaking mods on it. Then replace the blade with manyullyn to actually get some decent damage......
Gold and Silver Damascus?
TheRichBoy 101 that's like a 10,000,000 subscriber special
you paying for it? TheRichBoy 101
The silver might be too hard with pure gold but maybe with a block of 14 or 10k gold it might be possible.
Second
Well Electrum is a real thing.
I don't think I can name any other CZcamsr who seems to be such a genuinely nice person. Alec deserves all the success in the world.
Barnaby Dixon
@@jeravogel I stand corrected. Barnaby Dixon is an absolute delight.
Watching this on the 1st of jan 2020 and I’m still wanting him to finish this and make it look sick
Just watched the video.... was scrolling through the comments intending to go find the next episode after. Got here, and all I can say is, "Well, poop."
Gold prices have gone up ~25% since he bought this. I would imagine he offloaded it for some profit long ago.
Truly a golden moment!
Congratulations!
The malleability and - let's be honest - the incredible amount of satisfaction generated, really reminds me of play-doh.
PS : Congrats on hitting 1M Alec !!!
Alex French Guy Cooking I love (and subscribed to) both of you. I can NOT wait to see what you do for your 1 million mark. Its gonna be hard to top this, but as usual I'm sure you won't disappoint. ;)
You have the greatest taste in CZcamsrs, Alex!
i hope its going to be special ramen with mozarella and homemade wine
Merci, Alex 🙏
lets forge ... pasta. jk
This guy’s energy is something I can get behind 😂
The fact that he’s so excited puts me in a good mood
There are lots of channels that have a million or more subscribers but none that deserve it more than you.
Pete Rogers you are completely correct
Except for CrazyRussianHacker
Jett Sioson he dont deserve that!!
So true I'm so glad you finally made it! congratulations Alec!!! keep doing what you are doing, working hard and more than anything keep learning. I can't wait to see what you are capable of when you get to the two million subscriber mark which I Know you will and sooner than you might think.
Agreed wholeheartedly, it's not even his level of skill (not to under commend nonetheless), it's the level of love in his eyes. Love like that needs to find it's way into everybody's lives if I can say so myself!
Gamestop would buy that for $50
Lol.. not even that..
They will buy a game that I bout from them for 100$ for 0.29cents
TBS Fiery which game?
@@SupremeShuckle the most rarest first copy of Pokémon red
Not 50$ cash, 50$ store credit
i just recently started learning the art of blacksmithing a few weeks ago, at the age of 16.
my whole set up in total is worth about $20, (my angle grinder alone) but i use my school's anvil, hammers, cutting torches, and shop to practice with in my shop class. i dont yet have a forge, so im trying to make enough money to buy all the materials to build one with, but this art is an old and timely one that i could not be more proud of to be a part of
thank you for teaching so many young blacksmiths, (like me) so much about the craft
what did you do with it? do you still have it?
i wanna see the handle... or how do you call it in english? maybe with silver inlays... that would be a nice contrast.
Honestly, How many times did you accidently blow away the gold dust?
Adam Moore 120 likes and no reply’s. impressive
i know i would have out of habit...
he used the power sander too!? goodbye gold:(
@@Averageidiot44 that what I was thinking. He must have lost a gram or two
Thats some expensive blow....ing....wait?? WHATTT😁?
I can't believe you use a belt sander on solid gold!
Could you weigh the knife in the next episode? I'm curious how much material came off in the process.
If ever there was a time to hand-sand!
He had a bucket to catch it
I didn’t notice you beat me to the question by 3 hours. But definitely agree!
louden bout even with a bucket, he lost material, he lost some on the anvil, too. But that’s just going to happen working with gold, he started losing some the minute he started working with it.
It is truly a joy, to watch you work and be so passionate about your craft. I love your content and truly wish you the best!
I know this is many years later, but I love how much Alec is geeking out about the way gold reacts to forging in this film.
I'm ready for the 5M subscriber golden sword.
silver. to kill warewolves
With gold guard and pommel, and a clean stag handle.
Thats just dirty Blackdog, pure porn hehe
gold silver mokume gane sword ?
Sarin are volunteering to donate a million dollars worth of gold?
Anyone else getting anxiety imagining how much each pass of the file is costing in gold flakes? Don't even get me started on the belt grinder
ian1988 ikr
Lets take some money and grind into dust on the floor. SMH
He caught the vast majority of the dust/ flakes. You guys did see the bucket right? The one with a large pile of gold dust in the bottom....
Gold is $40 per gram. Gold is also extremely dense. Let's be very generous and say he was only removing 0.1g per stroke, that's $4 per file stroke or like 2-3 British Monopoly money. Per file stroke. Crazy.
Chris Meyer you will find the usd is the monopoly that's why it's worth so little.
what an amazing career. forging gold is the stuff of legends.
Just got a forge started today, little tough but it works
Make a resin handle with the gold flakes in !!
And congrats to 1m subs alecc!
That's actually a great idea! +1
Great idea!
I like it. So u can see the gold inside the handle. Don’t hide it with wood.
@@reaperrt1019 he could do a wood base with resin and gold flakes on the outside of it so you have more gold... but.. you dont get to see the tang...
A breakdown of why you have 1mill+ subs, you're insane enough to forge a solid gold knife, but humble enough to save the castoff. Love your work man
Lemel. The filings are called lemel.
@@acrosstheacross677 Someone's snooty
Humble. Lol hes not humble. Hes just not insane.
Your video was amazing. You’re a Very Talented Artist! I’m sure your Fiancée wears that ring with so much pride knowing that you made it just for her. Congratulations!
I watched this video when you were about to reach 2M. Congratulations, mate. It's incredibly how a very specific craft could be this popular, and that is just because of you. Keep going!
it needs a clear acrylic handle, to show-case the entire blade, from tip to tang.
That knife is beautiful, But what if you added Silver designs to it with a Darkwood handle and Platinum boots holding it together. Then auction off the knife or make a really nice Case for it too. I know you cant use it bc it's to soft but it is surely a work of art
I think if you sharpen it will hold an edge for short time?
would make a nice letter opener.
Its amazing definitely just art
That's a brilliant idea but not to sell. It should be like a good fortune knife but defo a nice handle n case. I think a bone handle cos you really cant use ivory love to see what he's done with it
Use it as a butter knife
Alec, I'm absolutely loving your channel. The first video I watched was your katana build, but this one was a delight.
The way you talked about the gold, it made me wonder if you would liken it to the playdo of the metal world.
Soft, cold forgeable, light on the wrist. It really looks like gold is a good starter material!
Please put a clear epoxy handle on it. Maybe with some gold leaf suspended in the resin
He could use of the filings he saved
Of all the ideas on here, this is the best 🖒
Underrated comment.
That is *the* best idea I’ve seen suggested! Nice one 👍🏻
As a goldsmith, my wife had a heat attack when you put the Gold on your grinder ... lol ... she said you need a talking to ... ;)
Neels Van Den Berg yeah, I would think you wouldn't ever take gold to a grinder. With steel it's cheap and readily available, so using material removal methods save time. But with rare materials? Probably would use a different forging method to retain as much of the material as possible.
Anduril never is a really long time ... ;)
I have done it and suffered my wife's 1000 yard stare as a result
Other option would be to gather up the filings (and the other contaminated material), wrap them up and mail them to Cody's Lab for some proper cross-channel-contamination ;)
I think he did do that and since its gold its pretty easy to melt it back so a solid piece and removing the impurities. Still not the greatest way of going about it cause of the residue of gold on the grinders and what doesn't gets flinged in the bucket he had under it.
Yeah, I was thinking that it would be perfectly fine to make the blade entirely with forging and leaving all the residue of the forge and anvil on the blade. Besides, doing so could presumably make a harder blade and always make a larger blade.
The Egyptians also made a gold knife and same size steel knife. Was placed in a pharos tomb. Just shows how much they valued steel, as equivalent to gold.
I absolutely love watching this guy!
The easiest material to upset is known as "WIFE" but the problem is to get one will cost more than gold
no, WIFE gets upset easily but it gets all bent out of shape. the longer you try to fix the problem, the worse the problem becomes. eventually you just have to accept it all bent out of shape or toss it out and get new WIFE.
and your soul
Hahaha 😂😂
Bane BlackGuard o
You also go to jail if you put it in the forge or try to cold forge it with a hammer.
Just casually shaving off hundreds of pounds....
@Ethan Tyler Ungerboeck probably the WiFi?.
@@lowcarbintheuk you're trying to calculate the whole piece instead of just the shavings
I was a little bit confused because as I'm from america I thought you meant he was shaving off pounds as in weight... then I realized..
If you're an American, shaving off pounds sounds great.
If you're British... not so much.
But he put it in a bucket
Forging what a supernova star forged billions of years ago. I love it.
“i want to TOUCH IT... maybe not bad idea” love it
Proud to say I have watched these daily videos since long before the silver play button was forged and happy to see you succeed in learning and growing. Your positivity is infectious. Keep it up Alec.
P.S. My mother's maiden name is Steele
Jordan Bowes my god I remember that vid
I love the fact that you actually went out and did something special for your milestone on 1mil! You are a genuine blast and one of the most entertaining people out there. Keep up the great work sir! Cheers from America!!!
south Canada, Also known as Minnesota :)
lol
been following you for quite a while. love the content and your never-ending enthusiasm.
I love how you can just work doing what you enjoy, not many people can do that.
First the music on this episode was on point. Second seeing you hammer with that tiny hammer was hilarious and third I can’t wait to see a handle on that knife.
The music is awesome! BTW, dows anyone know the track at 7:43? Is it Darude - Sandstorm? :D
A Tintanium handle Maybe or Wolfram ????
It definitely needs to be African Blackwood with a domed copper pin
100 grams of gold? That's a $4000 mini knife, what a baller.
8000 stuff doubles or triples in material price once crafted
@@angussmart2342 Thats highly debatable, depends.
angus Smart thats complete bullshit
angus Smart depends on tons of different factors
Thats the pound. Like $7500 Australian.
This should be the award for those cooking shows
You should have made a letter opener out of this because I mean that would be pretty dope and you can use it on almost any box because o gold ripping through clear or masking tape would be kind of dope
now you are going to clean your work shop very well😂
Wouldn't you feel privileged to get stabbed by that 😂
Disco Stu it would probably just snap or bend
It’s FrostyyyWolf Gaming you’d think but it’s still a matter of Metal vs. flesh
Ever been with a smokeshow fkn hot narcissist? Same principle. So NO, but you're really funny.
Clearly privileged to be able to afford to grind gold.
@@savag67 seems like you're jealous
I have a charcoal forge, haven't used it yet. Any tips in getting into forging?
This is one of those times when he loved making the video more then us watching haha
The whole time I was thinking, "don't take it to the belt sander, don't take it to the belt sander... please don't take it to the belt sander"
and he did it the madman.
iLLaGe ViDioT he had his gold collection bucket hahah
1001101 yes but i guarantee he lost an assload to airborn particulate.
iLLaGe ViDioT this is very true. I too was actually shocked when taken to belt. I thought he'd hand file
You should melt the scraps into a small Steele logo pendant for yourself
It seems to me that gold is a very good material to practice with as a novice, given the fact that it is so soft and handles heat so well. What hardness do you get after tempering?
I watched this a long time ago. and all of the sudden its back in my recommended? Does this mean you are going to finish it?
For a tang, you should use apoxy with the gold shavings inside it.
A bit late, but 1:42 to 1:47 was exactly what i said when i lost my virginity
Manu Tequila 😂😂😂
Lmao
Lmao
HAHAHAA
Omg😂😂😂😂
This was the most painful video I've ever watched. Every single flake that went flying brought another tear to my eye.
Should have made leaf ring with it, that would be really cool , beautiful and useable.
1 million! A few months ago when you did your collaboration with Mike you had only 400,000. It's crazy how fast your channel has grown!
Codo8 that’s when I found out about Alec. I had just started following Mike Boyd a couple of days before. I didn’t take long for Alec to become my favorite youtuber.
Juan Pablo Hernandez Z Yeah same, that collab made me love both of their channels
I think you should melt the gold, and then pour it in your logo on your work. You will have to make the logo a little deeper, and then just fill it with a little gold. It would look awsome and make your work unique. Imagine a steel or whatever you use hammer, with an golden "S" on it.
Please leave a like if you agree so Alec sees this:)
not sure about this gold but yeh using some gold (or silver) to infill the makers mark wold look damn nice esp on some of his fancier more exotic blades.
I was thinking neodymium, but gold on some of his prouder works would be nice.
It's been awesome watching you and your channel grow Alec
Gold is so soft its easy to hammer into any shape
Gold does work harden, 24k however work hardens very slowly. If it is worked without annealing it will begin to stress fracture and eventually crack. Very entertaining:)
Argentum Moon Jewellery reminds me of H1 steel
If any channel deserves a million yours is definitely one of them.
mobspeak here here!
That is truly an awesome letter opener
my mans alec doing like 50 expressions per minute
Alec, I don't normally comment on videos. That said, you've inspired everyone in my house to start exploring crafts like blacksmithing where we were all sort of do-nothings before. I'm going to start building a forge, forge some starter tools, and try my hand at making things for my family and friends. May even change careers if I get gud. Congrats on one millon subs and keep up the great work!
Mark Black same here dude. Fully inspired daily.
You should send the dust and objects contaminated with gold to Cody’s Lab and ask if he will refine it!
Andrew Evenson yes
i very much agree
Hell yeah! Send him the grinding belt and I bet he will get some out of it
yup
Thatsa very good idea
Pretty cool forging matter that came from a exploding neutron star
Not necessarily a neutron star - but certainly from a supernova.
Could the 'stickiness' be a slight electron exchange with the anvil. Or is that just going to be moisture?
Congratulations Alec, and Jaime too! Your dedication to the craft and creating frequent and high quality content is truly a inspiration to us all! All the best from Denmark!
Imagine how meticulously ancient jewelery was made. Pure insanity
Piece of piss by the looks of it.
Was melted down and poured into molds they didnt forge it lol
@@ghosthunter0404 upond some light reading on the subject it seems the mesopotamians were definently forging gold so...
@@ghosthunter0404 Nope. There was some casting, but most items were made by working the gold with tools and by soldering pieces together.
And two years later you’ve more than doubled that number. You’re a very skilled craftsman sir, keep on being awesome
I laughed a lot while watching... this video became even funnier as you enjoyed it throughout the process. I'm reading the comment section and still laughing... :D :D :D
The reason why it’s sticking is because gold doesn’t form any oxide. When that residue gets stuck to the anvil, you’re effectively “cold” welding it to itself
Not even a joke of him calling gold "tacky"?
But the anvils *HAS* an oxide layer, not pure metal surface. So it's not cold welding.
@@PotionsMaster666 But he said it picked up a gold sheen/coating.
The gold would then prefer to stick/cold weld to the gold sheen when hit
@@StrokeMahEgo "Sticking" != "Cold Welding".....The difference is a chemistry concept called => "Surface chemistry". There are many types of adsorption ( "sticking" to surface). One of which is "cold welding" i.e. chemically attached to the surface, and if there is an oxide layer present it's difficult to chemically attach to it (almost impossible), and the other type is in which one is just lying between the surface atoms........
Thnx for reading.
*EDIT* :- By " != " I mean " not equal to" (in C++ ).
@@PotionsMaster666 gold cold welds to itself very easily.
To those that don't know or care for the difference, it looks like it's sticking.
This is the day you become...
Alec Golde
Golde*
*Golde*
Golde
Did you ever add a handle to this knife? Was there a part two (or more)?
Keep up the good work!
Never seen the finished product, that saddens me man... :(!
The knife came out AWESOME... It's 3,500 worth of gold, but I would bet, you could sell that for twice as much, maybe even 3 times... To have a 1 of a kind Alec Steele Gold Forged knife.... People pay crazy amounts of money for stuff like that... hahaha.... Have a great day... the hardest working guy on CZcams, here is to another MILLION!!!!
Dave Erving Evader Knives I'll bet he lost at least $1000 with all the loss from grinding and filing. But all the same, it could be worth twice that because of the novelty.
I don't know about that, didn't you notice the bucket catching everything under the grinder & all the post it notes filled with gold dust? $1000, if you convert 3500 pounds to dollars, it is about $4600. So that would be almost a 1/4 of the bar... Once he refines all the dust he shouldn't lose too much, all the abrasive dust should burn off... maybe a few $100, but I spend that in belts and materials anyway, hahaha
Hey, I can help with some input from the jewelry and lost wax casting industry!
Reclaiming precious metals is also a rather costly process, but super common for every business or even single artisans that deal with gold, silver, platinum and palladium. Lots of chemicals, lots of testing for reclamation percentages, and lots of labor. In the end, it's not a 1 to 1 exchange rate when dealing with dust collection, but comes very close.
Another annoying aspect: The 'dollar' amount of gold fluctuates so often in a single day, that most shops doing this service give you a fixed rate in terms of what they find as the 'cost' of gold, and often times, they won't even touch it if its not of a certain troy ounce amount!
Allan Harwood Awesome thanks, I wrote another comment talking about Cody's Lab(don't know if you watch him or not), he does a lot of fine metal refinement. I have absolutely NO experience with it. I think the closest I've come to gold, was driving a guy to the coin shop to sell his collection, hahaha...take it easy...
Oh yes, Corys Lab gave a WONDERFUL demonstration on the process. And honestly, it's nearly similar, but with additional testing mid refinement to make sure allotments were in specs. We'd test samples in house, send a sample to the clients testing of choice, as well as a third party blind testing, multiple times. Range of purity always within 0.5 to 2.5%. WICKED close. Losses needed to be very carefully explained.
Honestly despite all those annoyances, I loved the work. Minus the hazardous chemicals. I was always more a lover of the lost wax casting process.
SCIENCE SIDE NOTE: Potassium cyanide makes yellow golds REALLY shine. Just a quick 60 second dip does wonders.
Ohh yeah by the way send your filings and grinder dust to( @codys lab )...he can consolidate it back into a billet for you :-) just a thought for collaborating.
God bless you on your journey to another million!
Christ Centered Ironworks this is a great idea! Cody's is another channel that I enjoy. Congratulations, Alec! You deserve it!
Was going to comment this also. Awesome colab
My thoughts to
drumprince91 yep Cody is awesome and even know I don't understand half of what he is saying lol... I still enjoy watching everyone of his vids! Alec/Cody collab for sure :-)
Would the gold actually scale or would it just alloy with whatever it picked up from the anvil?
So this is the guy that Bond villains go to have their weapons of choice made.
May I shake your hand, sir? Beautiful, just masterful comment. Thank you, sir.
Goldmember. Groovy, baby!
Fun fact, the stickiness of the gold is it welding to your anvil.
EJ Beerbower cold wielding
shane Flood Nope, the wold welds itself to the steel because it has very little oxidation on it’s surface.
I'm almost certain it is doing that because of the borax left over from the original pour
Ha ha! Great work and congratulations to 1M
Re-watched this video and you were so excited to almost be at 1 mill subs! Congrats on breaking 2.2 Mil!!
If you wanted to make something useful out of it, you could make a letter opener. You don't need or desire a sharp edge. You might be able to work harden it enough that the opener would hold its shape without bending when slitting an envelope.
The biggest problem is keeping contaminating materials out of the gold. You need polished tools and working surfaces.
I was cringing with every file stroke. Five dollars per stroke, that's more expensive than a high class prostitute.
James Hall I share your pain.
Also come to Detroit. "high class" hookers run about $75 usd an hour. $150 if you want to a raw session of will I contract aids?
James Hall golds gold dude it’s still worth its price lmao
No, Filip, the small amount that sticks to the anvil and the shavings have a very high value, due to the fact that gold has such a high price per gram.
James Hall so much cringe
Well this video was gold. Ha see what I did there.
CONGRATS ON THE MILLION IM SO PROUD
Are you his dad?
you never know. might i be?
You deserve it! Your energy is awesome and your content is seriously amazing! You have serious skills!
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