You would really like working with silver. Melt it, Roll it out.. maybe roll it with a texture.. Solder it, set a stone on it.. polish it. The ring looks great.. but with all your awesome casting with that homemade vacuum system, you could have cast that ring near perfectly into anything besides a blank and had to do little shaping..then again.. what fun would that be?
If you make a split dowel with a slight tapered wedge hammered in, you can attach it to a drill and spin it. It will be finished shaping in a couple of minutes
I love your videos - you are creative and clever - nice idea with the candle. I don't have expensive equipment nor a huge workshops like most youtubers, so I learn a ton from your vids. Thanks a bunch, man, keep up the good work!
Love it Lucas. Babybel was the first wax I used when learning to cast silver jewellery in lost wax and I still use it for its sticky properties for filling imperfections in wax patterns, sticking bits of wax together etc. It’s good stuff. Thanks for the video 👍
that looks super cool! you should look in to Dykem. it's a lay out fluid/paint that machinist use. it's supposed to go on uniformly and allow you to scratch fine lines without flaking off and resists being whipped away when wet. it's especially useful if you want lay out something without scratching up your metal too much. (sharpie markers can do similarly with less water resistance)
You could probably spend literally years going through the lore on the forging of the rings of power, so I suspect the answer to your exact question is out there. This is a project where a lathe (even a little jeweler's lathe or a cheap wood lathe) would save time and increase accuracy. Considering you didn't use one, your results are amazing!
Wow, that came out real good, especially with how rough the wax was to start. You might have put your wax in the freezer to make it harder so it would be easier to work, save an hour or two on the post processing lol. Also, I know you've mentioned it in the past, but resin printing for casting can let you do very fine details. I have a couple signet rings I made like that, each with a different animal, I even have a T-Rex skull ring
@@lundgrenbronzestudios Your videos always have a lot of good insights into the process, I'm definitely looking forward to that. There's a lot to resin printing that takes a while to get the hang of, especially the castable resins, if you haven't already seen his videos, VOGman has a lot of videos on casting prints
My great grandparent came to America from Sweden. They were Larson then but they said there were too many Larson’s so they changed their name to Lundgren.
Nice to read this, we're probably related🤣 Larson is a real Viking name, just change it back. Lundgren means buscage branch, you can't run around and present yourself as that. I'm just kidding.
@@larseriksson1741 😆 yes Grove of branches is what I’ve heard my name means. I just say I’m related to Dolph Lundgren, the guy who played the Russian in Rocky IV, but we know he was really Swedish.
Nice Dolf Lundgen and I grew up in the same area outside Stockholm called spanga. I don't know him but have met him a few times. It would be great fun to see you cast something from your cultural heritage. Sweden's history is very interesting not only from the Viking age and can certainly give you inspiration.
That's a lot of work Lundy. The results were good though. Didn't know I can eat the wax. Better to repurpose the Babybel wax.I like the cheese melted on some saltines.
I read The Hobbit then saw the movie 45 years ago. Both were great. Have forgotten much of the movie but the golden ring was very memorable - beautiful !!
The Ring turned those without immortality invisible. For instance, characters like Sauron and Melkor wouldnt turn invisible, because they were essentially immortal if not directly killed (pretty sure Melkor straight up *was* immortal but he was put into an eternal sleep by Eru I think, been a while since I've read these and I'm still not totally sure I understood what I've seen from the Silmilrillion). Then there's Tom Bombadil, who also didn't turn invisible, who is immortal, and supposedly was on middle earth before most of the living creatures we know of, but not even Gandalf really knows what Tom is. He's a mystery.
i like watching your videos related to casting....and even u r handsome in looks.....i wish u would have used proper camera gear rather than an iphone with nice wide angle or field of view.
@@JackTheAwesomeKnot I mean it was much easier to keep precision in the metal than that sticky wax. But feel free to prove me wrong. tag me in your video when you try.
