Having Fun with Pewter #1 

Hi George I don't know if you are still about but thank you for your video. It's great to hear that you are having so much fun with the pewter. I'm 74 and just getting into pewter and i'm having just as much fun. All the very best. Kind regards . . . Andy

You should narrate movies! Your voice is awesome!

You are a great teacher! Great explanations, very informative.

Nice video George. I've been playing with pewter for about a year now. Although most of my work has involved pouring molds. Haven't been able to find much info on free working or traditionally working pewter. You've given me some new ideas as usual and will be playing with it some more now. Thanks!

Thanks. I have been wanting to do another pewter video. Should start that in a week or so. I have been using the scrap from the pewter pitcher. Bought an ingot from Roto metals and will be using that in the next video.

I hadn't thought of that . Will give it a try. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks for the comment. Working on "Having Fun With Pewter #2", which has some new techniques.

I've been putting it on my wood lathe, it turns beautifully especially with carbide tools.

Hey did you know you can just melt it on a stove. Just thought you'd like to know

Nice video, George, as usual. Would the graphite stick in an old lead pencil be effective cleansing the impurities from the pewter? I used to use that cleaning up old gold before casting. Just clean some the wood back so it doesn't ignite.

Thanks for the comment. Hope people have fun with pewter.

I'll bet you have found some interesting metals with metal detecting. Sounds like you are having fun.

Thanks George. Gotta try that!

Love this video! I have been wanting to play with a certain pewter but it is only available as ingots. I have been surfidg

I have played with a piece of pewter I found metal detecting I melted it and poured it into a 1 inch piece of pipe that I set on a metal plate it made it into a nice piece that I could make a token or medalion out of it

I have a nice lump of pewter that looks like a Morel mushroom they grow willd here maybe i will post it some day if I can find it !!!

John, knowing you I'l bet you come up with some creative ideas!

Hi George. A great video. How do you suggest I connect a silver pin to a pewter charm?

Grrrrr.... I accidentally clicked post. I have spent 30 minutes looking and trying non-working solutions. I suspect I need to use the desktop version. So anyway, I love this video. I can't wait to get my pewter and start playing. Wondering about the pitcher, though. If you get it from a garage sale don't you worry about the lead content? Would the presence of lead make it easier to melt? Would that mean that butane or propane won't work well on newer alloys? Thanks again for these videos.

Good video. Could you tell me what type of table you used? Was this a cement block table or something? Also, what other tools do you recommend for the free forming? It looked like you had some type of Anvil?

have you tried using any molds to form the molten pewter? If so what material did you use for your mold?

Beautiful way to recycle something old & otherwise useless!

I did something similar to this with burning leaves

Does pewter lose color? Or is it as good as stainless steal

Is pewter toxic?

Dude you need to voice over educational films.. Maybe then could I stay awake during them..

T-1000