No Crucible? No Ingot Mold? But Got A Rolling Mill? - No Problem - Recycling Your Silver and Gold 

What I love most about these tutorials is the sheer imperfection of the presentation.. thank you so much Andrew for making this so human but incredibly informative! I've learned so much while becoming more forgiving of myself for not always getting everything just right all the time.

Hi Andrew all my low budget amateur frends who, as I, have a Chinese mill. This mill is not nano exact so long strips will be curved during milling. Andrew has a good quality Durston mill, so he can say always roll it the same way each time. But if you have a mill, that bends your strip, roll it once, then turn it upside down (but still same front) and roll it again . That will straighten your strip.

Hello Andrew, as I know striking the ingot with hammers or presses, internal defects such as air bubbles and impurities can be eliminated, and the crystalline structure of the metal can be improved.

HAHAHA brilliant bloopers! But seriously, that tip about using the flat end of tweezers to flatten your blob of metal is excellent! Thanks so much for using your lock down time to teach us!

Hi, Andrew. If you have time over the next few weeks could you please make some videos on how to craft and connect a brooch pin, how to create a hinged locket and how to make a cabochon mounted box clasp. PLEASE! 🤗 Thanks for creating this video. As always I enjoyed the lesson. I might not have a crucible, an ingot mold or a rolling mill. But I do have a torch and a hammer. So it looks like I'll be recycling my silver scraps Toolbox Initiative style.

I got all my fine silver scraps yesterday and was very successful in making myself a sheet (small but gorgeous) of fine silver. Thanks so very much for the tutorial, Mr Berry!! 😁

Great tip with the tweezers. I was taught to hammer it to get it thin enough to go through the rolling mill.

I have a tip I can add. I have been using my rolling mill this way since I started, three years ago, as I don't have enough room to set up with a larger torch system. A while back I wanted to make small flat components to use as beads, and it's really awkward to put small balls through the mill, so now when the ball is molten I add a couple of inches of (usually) 16g sterling wire to it, so that I have a kind of handle to hold onto while rolling it. Makes it so much easier! When I'm finished I just snip off the wire. Also, instead of tweezers I use the flat end of a chasing hammer, since I often melt quite large balls. I totally agree about the importance of the mill, it was the first thing beyond pliers that I bought, and I use it nearly every day. Thank you for the excellent videos. I've learned everything I know either playing around at my bench or at the University of RU-vid. 😊

Really enjoying these tutorials. I'm using a hammer and anvil to turn my scrap back into bar & sheet. Takes a little while but it's cheap if you don't have access to a rolling mill

I definitely put the cart in front of the donkey.... I was partially through a metalsmithing class before the class was shut down because of the virus. But ar 62, I’m determined this is what It want to do, even if only for making jewelry for myself, This morning I bought a Durston Agile C140 Combo 60 Flat/40 Wire Rolling Mill. I figured with all this time on my hands, why not play and learn at the same time? I came here tonight to search for beginning projects for rolling mills and found your awesome video. THANK YOU! This will be so helpful! PS! I’m thrilled you like the Duraton Agiles. What sold me was the 5th wheel that made the rolling go easier, smoother, over having four wheels. I know I will love it when it comes next week! LOVE your videos and your British accent!

Todays date is Aug. 17, 2023. Andrew, I've seen so many of your videos & they are all great. I've learned all my best jewelry making skills from you. I know the Lord led me to you. Thank you & keep up the good work. You truly are blessing to us. Cj FL, USA😊

so glad i watched this before placing my next materials order - no silver sheet required this time! Thanks Andrew

Thank you! Perfect timing for "Lockdown USA"!

Been watching your videos for a few weeks now. Definitely above the rest in information and details. Bought my first rolling mill a week or so ago. Trying to learn. Made a bracelet so far. But I feel I may be exploring just the beginning. Thanks for all the awesome, free 🙏🏾, information and lessons.

Hello Andrew, I recently took out a loan from our savings at $50. a month. lol i wanted a durston but it was a $200. shipping. so I ended up with a 130 Peepe rolling Mill. I have not cleaned up all the grease and re oiled it like the instructions say yet I have ordered a crucible from amazon and I had a friend who was a metalsmith that can't make jewelry any more he so kindly gave me alot of things. a spinner casting unit that I have no clue how to use. I will find it on youtube one day. He had some steel small things and I figured it out its a ingot mold. blimey I said to my husband who's from the UK. Im proud of me self. I put this together. I also got a round disc cutter for xmas from him. so Im a amateur . Im also old at 72 next month.but I have made rings and pendants.now I'm in the process of making my brother a bear claw necklace. Oh I hope it turns out well. I have the claws clean and the silver all cut out. the soldering begins. May I ask where in the UK you're from. My husband is from Hemel Hempstead. Im American from Michigan but have lived in Colorado. Lived in Bedfordshire for five yrs and married him there. I miss it. I enjoy what you teach us. and I will keep watching. my email is mobetta48@yahoo.com if you get too bored and want to talk jewelry. perhaps I could ask you a few questions. do I have to use Map gas for melting silver or will my propane work. someone told me propane isn't hot enough. thank you Mo is my nickname or you can call me MO

I don't have a rolling mill so I am just saving all my scraps for now. I loved seeing how that was done. Thanks Andrew I really enjoyed the video.

Thank you very much again for your instructif vidéo. I learn so much every time. When I hear you say.. "I try not to talk too much on these short vidéos", "he says".. Make me smile. It's a pleasure listening to you!! 😊🍀

great video! I would love to see a video on soldering multiple times the same piece, for example a ring with a stone set in 4 prongs. how to chose the order in which you solder the different pieces, how to prevent solder joints to open up when soldering next to it, when to consider lower graded solder, etc.

Thanks Andrew! Always enjoy watching, no matter how long they are!

I purchased a Durston rolling mill a year ago and am embarrassed to say that I have yet to even take it out of the box it came in. I think I just don't feel that I am ready to start working with metals in that fashion yet (no confidence in my work lol). Thank you for sharing your knowledge.....and the bloopers.....love love love the bloopers!

XD i have never been more entertained than watching THIS video. the blooper reel was worthy of it's own video. thank you for sharing!

You are a great techer Andrew.Thank you for sharing all the knowlage. I am making my silver from scraps for a while and I am still learning ...

Please, let us know what torch is that, so powerful!

Great tutorials I have been watching as many as possible as at 60 years young this will make a fantastic hobby,could you do vid on in laying grooves in a silver design with gold if possible. Thanks paul john

oh i love this video! so honest and full of all i needed to know! my dad just gifted me a Durston C150RE !!!!!! LIke wow that's what a perfect video to help me roll out scrap. Thank you

Thank you so much! Can you do a video on hinged jewelry. Like a hinged bracelet please? Your films are informative and awesome

Andrew you are awesome. I've been on lock-down for 3 weeks. Your tutorials are very refreshing and I learned a lot. Now I know how to use my rolling mill better! Be safe and healthy :) - h. from Washington state

Thank you, Andrew. This is very useful. I don't have a rolling mill as it wouldn't be economical for me to buy one but I do have scrap and now I know how to treat it before taking it to my silversmithing class to use the rolling mill there :-)

Thank you 🙏 great timing at this time for all of us when we are struggling financially. Recycling our own small amounts of silver

Spider in the wall mean money ! Don't kill it 😂

Love Andrew Berry, I learn so much from him. But tonight I was in a bit of a rush so I watched the video at x1.5 speed. It was an absolute joy- especially when he was talking about the crack. I advise everyone to try one AB video at 1.5 speed

Poor Andrew! It's hard to keep him busy, I suppose! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I think, for now, I'll just order my wire & sheets from Rio Grande or Fire Mtn Gems. Its just easier for me.

Andrew, your videos are worth their weight in gold! Thank you for sharing.

Best teacher!!!!

Thank you Andrew this video is a SUPER TIP

Partridge 😊 Thanks for the tutorial 👍

Gold and silver are different animals when it comes to work with ! I just use the small size graphite block for bars !

3 weeks 😂. In our dreams. I wonder if you did manage to get your shed fixed and fences painted, etc. Thanks for the great advice here Andrew; youre always so helpful and a mine of good advice.

Hello Andrew, I would love for you to make more videos on torch fired enamelling. Ex. I struggle with counterenamelling...

You killed the spider?! nooooo 😂

Great video. I sm of course one of these tool craxy amateurs but since I slsr have been constantly travelling the world for more than fourty years, I enjoy going to tje markets to sut with the goldsmiths learnimg how to do exquisite things wtih the most simple tools on earth... If any. Also watch the Toolbox Initiative. They show West African gold smiths with nothing but a hammer and a forge.

Best tutorials - best homepage for everyone wanting to learn how to make jewellery (I find...) - membership has been worth every single penny over the past few years. Thanks for everything, Andrew. Always looking forward to more films, be it over your homepage or here on youtube. Request: if you could do a tutorial on annealing a smaller piece of shaped metal - for ex. a small leaf or some other cut out flat piece or a wire shape onto a RING (or BANGLE - just not a flat area, you've shown that before) so the piece needing to stick to the top actually holds in place while soldering (and obviously after ;-)), that would be grand. Also a little more on the different ways of darkening the metal (liver of sulfur or Paris oxyde etc.) and what results can be expected with what type of oxyde. Thanks a million and hope you and your family remain happy and healthy through these times.

Tips and tricks re: beginner mistakes with soldering, using texture plates, drawing wire, or what tools can or should be modified. If you’re going to go stir crazy, maybe do a live stream and chat with some of your viewers, show off some of the things you have made, show us some of your more expensive tools ( do you use a 3D printer to make casting molds). Or maybe you should go put the roof on that shed! 😁

I have a cheap rolling mill and I'm definately trying this. I think I'll hammer the disk first just to get them flatter before the rolling mill - just to save the mill. But thank you for an awesome tip!

Excellent. I almost bought a crucible yesterday. I really don't need it. This was perfect and perfect timing. We may all be mad if we don't keep busy.

And here I was about to buy an ingot 😂thank you Andrew!

I enjoy every second of your tutorials very informative thank ❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊

THANKS, Andrew! I absolutely love your films! Thank you thank you! I just bought a rolling mill, and needless to say, I am a bit cash poor and don't yet have a crucible or ingot mold. I am set to go with this video, now!

Love your work.

I really love the bloopers at the end! I mean the whole thing is good but you know nothing beats a laugh.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! 😊

Hello Andrew, I am just buying rolling mill... Durston are superb but out of my range now, Chinese are cheaper but look kinda not solid, I find some very (VERY) old rolling mill. Thank you this tutorial... looks what I want to do...

Metal is a crystal. Annealing restores the crystalline structure. Working the metal stretches the crystal structure causing atoms to break out of the crystal. This is what causes the metal to harden and crack and why annealing is important.

Brilliant as always, love the singing 🤣

Even if you must save for a while buy a Durston mill. They are not that expensive when it compares to a Chinese mill. Buy once and you never have to worry it it's going to breakdown. Quality costs money. Some tools you can make do. A quality mill that has proven workmanship is worth the peace of mind. A quality tools, a quality soldering torch with good craftsman ship is security for a tradesman. You can always tell a mark of a professional and that his tools and how well they take care of those tools. Clean them every day and put them in their place and they will last many lifetimes.

Love this! I can’t believe I never thought about smashing down the silver blob! Love the bloopers! You’re great!

This is magic. I am going to try this in my back garden (without even soldering /melting station:)

Lovely video ! I love how you have your blog tools but how about listing your few tools you use in your tutorial ? Loved your larger torch !

Extremely useful information. Thank you. These are the parts of jewelry making that I love.

Than you Andrew. I think we all went a little made being isolated during Covid pandemic

thank you, Andrew, great lesson! could you teach us on wax carving? for example a ring with a cabochon?

Thanks for the video!

I am locked down in America. I love your work and am looking forward to going mad along with you.

Legend! Thank you. Such great information! Appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Just bought the same rolling mill & waiting (impatiently) for it to arrive travel form the UK to Oz. Thanks again, Andrew. A huge help.

Nicely done, thank you. Can you pls make a channel setting with square stones in a ring or bracelet? Pls finish your shed as well:happy wife, happy life 😁😂

Thank you so much i love your Tutorials.

Love your tutorials! So down to earth and achievable with fantastic results! Thank you

Really love this man 💙💎 Helped me soo much . I wish i had you as my mentor 🙌 Well in a way i do !i never miss a video👌

Thank you

Doing whatever it takes to buy a good rolling mill is very useful advice. So, now, I need to find out what makes a rolling mill good so that I can find one.

Thanks so much for this tutorial. I just bought myself a gorgeous Durston C30 and I don’t have the means to make ingots, but you have given me the confidence to roll my own silver. Very entertaining too. I can do with a little rolling mill therapy in my life right now. 😆

I've been using my delft clay and making an open ingot.

thank you Mr.Andrew! can you show how to make feligri braslet and Nona chain. thank you again!

Wow was this an informative tutorial! I’m about to buy a rolling mill (a Durston Combination because of your wonderful video!) but do not have a crucible or ingot mold...and you just made the process simple enough that I won’t need them. I have watched so many of your videos and never fail to learn wonderful new things! I love your knowledge and personality and am so glad I subscribe to your channel!

Your rite hammering it is not near as easy to control the thickness as you reduce it. Plus you have no feel as to when to re anneal. The mill always does a better job and more uniform.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Love from Peru

Fantastic as usual! I’m not alone when I say thank you for your time and dedication in teaching us!

Andrew I love watching your videos. Wondering if you have done or would do a video for flush/gypsy setting and specifically which size drill bits and which type of burrs you use. So many use different ones bud hart setting ball? Thanks stay well

Absolutely great video! Just what I’ve been waiting for🙏🙏🙏and the bloopers at the end😂😂😂😂made my day😘😘😘

I would love to see the techniques for stone on stone or stone in stone settings for cabochons, etc. :)

Who has a rolling mill but no crucible? $30 gets you melting, $600 gets you rolling

What is the brand of torch you use for the bigger one?

thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. It has helped so much in these difficult times. I spend hours watching your videos.. I now sweat solder with ease. Its the best way to learn as one can watch it many times. Bev (N.Z.)

The only reason I hammer it first, is because my mold creates a flat piece that is a little too large to fit though my mill. I hammer it down to a thickness that will fit into my mill.

Thank you Andrew! I'm wondering.... can you please do a video on how to make a spring hinge bracelet? Thanks in advance for your time and talent!

Prooven, the mill keeps you going on! Could you explain on the additives necessary to use on process while melting; the flux (what material can be used), the acids needed while melted to the object before get rolling phase? Everybody keeps telling the "acids" and "fluxes" without telling what ingredients they actually concist.

Thats a neat trick with the tweezers , thanks Andrew!

I loved this! I had been wondering how to do this

Thanks Andrew! Brilliant!

Thanks Andrew, remember a few yeta back at the big snow u did alot of vlog vids, it was that a second channel? 🤔 I thought they were fun too when u spoke out youyr books an yotr life. But we all want tips on jewlery here probably more than a vlog. Hope u and the family are all stayin safe and well

Hello, Andrew. Can You, please, do some movie about riveting. It is very interesting technique, so i would like to know more about it. Thank You in advance!

I had a student doing this for the first time and it took her so long (she didn’t have the torch turned up hot enough) the charcoal block continued burning on the inside!! Just like a bit you’d have on a BBQ grill! 😳 Had to drop the whole block into a sinking water. Learned something there. Hahap

Thanks Andrew. Love your videos, they are very informative and helpful.

What would be the consequences of leaving the solder bits in the melt? Thank you for showing how accessible this process can be!

Totally enjoying these Andrew... would love something on finishing fine detail on pierced pieces and I still struggle with polishing. Your videos so closely mimic what happens to all of us in our studios just helps me see I am on the right road and need to just keep practicing and constructing. THANK YOU!

Excellent, I was just doing this yesterday with my charcoal block, but nice with some extra tips, like the tweezers for pressing it down. Years in to doing jewellery, I finally ordered a rolling mill. I mainly do zbrush design, 3d printed, and cast pieces, so haven't felt the need for a mill. At least Durston is not closed and I had my new mill in 2 days. :-)

This is amazing for the present time considering that cookson has just closed!!

Hi Andrew Thank you for all your teachings. Pease would you talk about for finishing and polishing the jewelry . such as what kind of polishing compound to and what are the steps. There are a lots of things on the market it is very confusing. I love your you tube tapes one of this day i also want to become a member to your home website. I never have a good polishing and finishing. Thank you very much again

Be safe, be true...., Andrew !!

Hello, wich is the acid that you use for cleaning the silver? Thanks for videos and channel, very informative!