Using A Potato Instead Of A Charcoal Block?! | 12 Months Of Metal

[@testpuddle]

I peeled, cooked and mashed a potato and put it into a ceramic bowl. I pushed a heart shaped into the potato, remove it and then poured my pewter. The results were good enough to shape and finish for my purpose. Loved your video. Gave me inspiration to try without going to the trouble of making a silicon mold. I adapted you method as carving would be a challenge for me.

[@CONEHEADDK]

WHY doesn't this comment have most likes? Oh yeah - because most people aren't creative, but think they are, bcz they "put a bit more cinamon in the cake", and all their friends go crazy... I saw a video about pouring silver on pasta aso - and a comment about cooking, forming and drying it first, to create other shapes - barely any likes or comments.. I had also the pasta idea, but not your mashed potatos. I will try it some time for sure. Maybe you could mix a bit of plaster in the mashed potato, to get more details to handle the heat.

[@gisella1350]

thank you. I love alternate ways of doing things. Imagination is powerful.

[@amberm2777]

Ok this is brilliant! I love finding cheaper and/or more accessible ways to metalsmithing! Thank you

[@melmel2644]

Very interesting and ingenious. I couldn’t keep my eyes off of the jewelry maker. You are so gorgeous.😊

[@jamiedriscoll5411]

How awesome and smelling great. I’ll try this soon! Thanks!

[@101mosioatunya]

A good tip if you don't want to carve into an expensive charcoal block just to make a few granulations. Worth knowing :-) Thanks for posting.

[@JayDub_143]

Absolutely GENIUS!!! Just opened up so many ideas for me!!! Tysm!!

[@kimthomson400]

Have you tried your potato soldering yet JaNet?

[@JayDub_143]

@@kimthomson400 I sure have!! Worked like a dream!!!

[@biggertom1234]

This is reallyinnovative and fast thinking on the go. Yes why pay more for burning materials that eventually crumble as dies the charcoal block . Potato good to go instead ..definitely giving this a go . Many thanks for your creative problem solving and sense of thrift savings.

[@mymythology8799]

Very interesting technic! thx a lot. this is very helpful video!

[@tammygurl64]

Wow, this is so cool, thanks! 👍 I just had a thought 💡🤔... I wonder if you could slice a piece of potatoe, use something similar to cookie cutters (but much smaller) to cut out a perfect shape, discard the shape but stack the slice back onto the potato, and melt the silver inside the shape without it leaking. 🤔 The possibilities would be endless if that would work! Thanks so much for the inspiration! Have a great day! 😀

[@CONEHEADDK]

How did it go?

[@g.m.5412]

Awesome idea! Thanks 🙏❤️

[@moretimethanmoney8611]

I just came up with something very similar. I've been using lump charcoal to make fine silver ingots to draw down to wire. I found a small mystery metal nugget in an old tool box that proved unforgable when annealed and could be worked hot, but because of the small size lost heat before significant shaping. The blob was also too small for gravity casting. I still had to find a way to use the nugget. I flattenned the sides of a couple lump charcoal blocks using a large file (flat rock would work). I carved a shape in the block i'd put on top. I covered the bottom block with homemade pripps flux and heated the metal to a runny ball, trapping it under the carved block. Leaving the blocks in place, I used a small brush to extinguish the charcoal block using more homemade pripps. The pripps fills the charcoal and slows its breaking down into ash. I found your video when I searched online to see if anyone else has thought of it. Awesome!!!

[@katejacob6801]

wow, i am amazed!😊😀

[@alicerosa6766]

I am definitely going to try this, thank you😁.

[@lizlloyd4228]

Amazing!! This is on my to-try list for 2020! Thanks for sharing. :)

[@mandolinic]

Don't you mean your "to-FRY" list? ;-)

[@kimthomson400]

@@mandolinic :D

[@tammygurl64]

@@mandolinic 😂🤣😂🤣

[@clarecribb4075]

Amazing idea!!

[@AmericanCoinHunting]

Could make your own charcoal block out of a scrape piece of pine 2 x 4" lumber , by burning it in a fire ? Don't know , just thinking out loud .

[@makeitwithkim-jewellerysil3126]

Sounds like a plan. I just presum, like a potato, it wont last that long as presumably the wood would crack and breakdown. Normal charcoal blocks are pressure treated to last a bit longer.

[@CONEHEADDK]

How about baking it in your oven?

[@alicerosa6766]

@@CONEHEADDK It would be a good idea and will help for shaping any form because is going to be softer after cooking 👍.

[@CONEHEADDK]

@@alicerosa6766 Once apon a time I forgot a pizza with differnt stuff on in the over, until it was pitch black and stone hard. I don't recall the temp, but as I recall the corpse, it seemed to be very durable. Maybe it would be worth trying all kinds of leftovers..

[@alicerosa6766]

@@CONEHEADDK Yes, definitely sounds good, that's where all the inventors come...from just ideas, and then they put them to work😊. We just have to try👍.

[@hanamoreton6543]

Yay! My workshop is going to smell of chips again! 😹😹😹

[@kimthomson400]

Hana, try a sweet potato too! It worked well and smelt less :)

[@hanamoreton6543]

@@kimthomson400 Oooooh... such a good idea. And we’re far more likely to have a sweet potato going spare in this household too!!

[@CONEHEADDK]

Maybe an apple

[@johnhowton6339]

never seen this before cool

[@kimthomson400]

We tried a sweet potato the other day and that worked well too :)

[@user-pe8cu1vs6d]

Do you use borax to help melt the silver? Thank you.

[@kernowcraft]

Flux isn't entirely necessary but we like to add flux as it helps the silver flow nicely together!

[@JohnWilson-in7ff]

How much is subscription

[@angellavincentie5058]

Wow

[@marthataylor9829]

Maybe an alternative to cuttlefish?

[@CONEHEADDK]

How did it go?

[@saidabdukarimov888]

👍👍👍

[@bbbobbbieo]

Wow, yea Im going to melt all my scrap in a big potato while I wait for my charcoal block to come in the mail

[@bbbobbbieo]

I did it kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZ_YXq1tYsRlpMk

[@kernowcraft]

Love it Jacob! Thanks so much for sharing - we'll send your video to Kim!

[@kimthomson400]

@@bbbobbbieo Perfect! :)

[@nevem5010]

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