Making My Own Wedding Ring from 24k Gold
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- I start with a 24k gold bar and make the ring that I'll wear forever!
Even though I've made this design a few times, I definitely learned a bunch.
My process seems to be getting more streamlined.
0:00 Design Discussion
2:10 First melt
3:54 Ingot ready to roll out
10:25 Making the circle
11:15 First Cut
15:13 First Fuse
16:51 Second Fuse
17:30 Texture and Sizing - Jak na to + styl
Glad that you were satisfied with it at the end! 😊. Fun to watch your videos
First thing first: Congratulations!!!
Thank you so much! I'm a lucky guy!
Beutiful!
thank you! I think so too. Its nice to wear it everyday
Hey! Just found your channel and am enjoying qll your videos! Im an amateur prospector and am getting married in the next 6 months. Im on my way to having found enough gold to make my own set of bands from and have no prior experience in making rings. What tools would you recommend I aquire before getting started? I really quite like that hammered texture a lot and thats about all im looking to do
Watch a few more of my videos. I'll get a ez start list together.
Do watch my "simplest 1 dollar silver ring" video, I talk about what is absolutely necessary.
Dude you need to get a oxygen and mapp gas set up! It’s like night and day! I’m jealous of your roller though. I hammered mine out honestly doesn’t take as long as you would think but you have to anneal a lot. I wear a size 13+ ring it came out to 25 grams lol I still have about 32 grams left. I ran out of oxygen but man I went from a ts8000 torch I bought to my dad’s old craftsman oxygen/ mapp set up and it works so well to not only fuse but also to melt down the gold in like 1/10 of the time. I don’t have the super precise tips though some day I’ll get a finer set up but for my chunky ring it worked fine… a super fine tip would be amazing though. I thought the craftsman was fine until I saw other precise ones online….
I've been eyeing the smith little torch dual fuel, but I'm seriously nervous having bottle o2.
It freaks me out and I would feel better if someone would teach me the fuel blending.
Good job on making a ring! 25g is a massive unit. The precision tips on the little torch must be a huge upgrade for fusing joints. I think they're key, especially when using such a hot torch.
Keep me updated, and if you post your ring, I'll give it a thumbs up!
@@mustachemetalworks well maybe get the little bottles like I have and you’ll learn it’s definitely the same thing though with the big except you have the mixer by your hand rather than the bottles, I’ve used oxygen/ acetylene cutting torches before so it’s the same concept just little bit of fuel, add oxygen but just an added regulator which you look at the numbers and learn quick for optimal cutting pressure, you’ll see it turn blue if not you add just a tiny bit of fuel if the oxygen isn’t turning blue I’d say just get it you won’t regret it, as long as you can buy bottles where you are at you’ll be fine. Just if you have angle grinders or random flames make sure valves are shut and check it with soapy water/ by ear periodically but even if the oxygen caught fire it would burn and not explode lol.
The bad thing about the little 16 ounce I found out is it runs out of oxygen quickly compared to the propane or mapp + it’s 14 a bottle rather than 3-12 like propane/ mapp That being said if you use it just to fuse it would last long.
You’ll be so happy with the smith torch.
Exelente trabajo Bro!
¡gracias!
Hey you did better than I could ever do. But why not solder the joint with 14k or 18k? The melting temp is lower right? That way you don’t melt the wall. Anyway good job.
Yes, correct. Melting point would have been lower.
I was trying to keep the overall karat result of the piece as high as possible so I choose to fuse whenever it is structurally possible.
@@mustachemetalworks Ok gotcha
Why not using Flux past for joint it . also be cheaper to buy casting grain from your local refinery then pay a premium on a bar
Flux wont really help the fusion joint because the gold doesnt need to be prevented from reacting to any of the molecules in the air.
Casing grain doesn't buy me much from where I purchase (APMEX) and I dont have a local refinery to call. I dont pay much premium over spot anyway.