How are all you sensational subs and random viewers this week? I hope everyone is happy and healthy and I hope you can sit back turn off your worries and tune out of life while I make today’s awesome additions to my stack. While watching a documentary on Egypt it got me thinking I don’t have any Egyptian treasure so why not make my own . I have seen this piece and design a lot over the years I remember the first time I saw it was playing the original Tomb Raider on PSone when I was a little kid. So today I’ll cast The Ankh. The ankh or key of life is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol that was most commonly used in writing and in Egyptian art to represent the word for "life" . Now that that’s all said and done Why not Donate a little bit of your time in The way of allowing one or two ads to play through this will help support the channel😆 more revenue means more giveaways👊🏻😄. A better way to support the channel is play one of my playlists on your computer before you walk away from it and let it play through that really helps as well but don’t ever feel as though you need to watch the ads if you don’t want to simply skip them and move into the video it’s completely up to you and I understand if you don’t have the time to do so👌🏻
can you imagine if his stack became a fieldtrip location? " an here we have BigStackD's stack. these were made by the afore mentioned ancient smelter king of Australia."
Loved that image of the Ankh that would continously re-light itself in flames after the holy water was tossed on it! One of my favorite casting videos for sure.
I wish I had the ability to do this stuff. Other than the financial means to aquire the equipment my health keeps me pretty much stationary. But I love watching people make things, and dreaming up stuff I would love to make. Loved the Ankh. Maybe oneday I wqill find someone around here who can do something similar for me. Thank you for another interesting video, and something new to think about.
That shot of you brushing the nordic gold ankh almost reminded me of an archaeologist finding an artifact :O Beautiful pieces, still impressed by how much detail some packed earth can get!
I've become a big fan of your videos - and as much as the melting and casting impresses - I have to say that your neatness and attention to detail when cleaning up / squaring away is top shelf , too.
@@mikethomas9623 Likely be MUCH simpler (and easier) to have a full size statue carved from foam or plaster and use that to make the mould... Certainly would cause less long-term problems too... I can certainly see the munchkins retaliating with all kinds of havoc if he tried using them to make the moulds...(chewed up furniture & shoes, re-colouring various fabric items yellow - 1 patch at a time, leaving brown surprise "Packages" where you least expect to step on them, digging up the grass/gardens etc.)...
The ending made me think, you can 3d print a pyramid. Without the limestone cap on top. Just the pyramid with brick texture and cast it out of copper. Then, tou can melt aluminum, and upturn the pyramid and dip it in and coat the top. Do it several times to thicken it up. Then it looks like it has the cap on top!
One of your best videos yet. It's amazing to see how your skills and techniques have developed. This is still my favorite weekly video. Thanks for putting the time in making them.
In 1715, a hurricane sank a 10 ships in a Spanish treasure fleet very close to the east coast of Florida. From time to time after storms, Spanish gold washes ashore to be found by the army of people with metal detectors. If your very cool casting was left on this beach, you could easily cause a heart attack when someone found your artwork. They wouldn't know it was an Egyptian design at first Bravo!!! Well done...
Hey Dion, those are absolutely awesome, thank you so much to both you & Adam for the wonderful distraction from this most stressful election ever... Love y'all
LOVE the fun socks and thank you.... I so love Egyptian artifacts, casting them would be so much fun ... your a blessed man buddy... knowing you in real time as well as the kids (fur babies) would of been a real pleasure!!! Keep up the great job and showing them fun socks off ... to cool!!!
I just found your channel not even a week ago and I don’t know how I never stumbled across your channel. It is really calming and very entertaining to watch you do this. And have inspired me to become like you one day. Thank you for the great content
This vid is - considering all your non ingot casting vids - the best one so far - originality-wise (and object-wise) and diversity-of-metal-mixes-being-poured-in-one-vid-wise ! Great job indeed !
this reminds me when i use to strip down old IBM computers that my school would get rid of, the amount of copper i would get on top of getting silver and gold from them was just amazing
Every time I watch your videos, I think to myself surely he can't top the last one. Wrong again. This was absolutely phenomenal. Love to see the boys and then an epic pour. This truly was a great one. Am sure I'll be watching it several more times. 👍👍👍
As always, a sensational video of melts. Seeing that u enjoy the Egyptian style of melts/molds, I think a pyramid of Nordic gold would look great to add to your collection. Maybe even have the details of the layers in it too. Just an idea. See ya in next week's episode of castings.
I would never ever have thought of doing anything like what you have done! Wow wow wow. You have set a spark in my head l thought was dead. I got heaps of scrap in the factory. It's time to wake up and start learning again. You freaking Legend. Thank YOU.
Why so early because of Daylight Savings Time and of course do you know when is the Cheers 🍻 segment is going to come, It needs two Cheers 🍻 segments before melting and then after melting
Hey Big. When you do your mixed metal melt of all your slag, You should do a mega cube and then polish it up and then get someone to collab with that does engraving and get them to do a funky pattern on all the sides. Great Video cant wait to see the fan mail unboxing and melt. Cheers.
These ankhs are really well done, it's really nice to see how much you learned the "metal psychology" (as my jewelry teacher liked to say), your casts clearly gained in quality over your videos (y) Keep up the good work, thx to you i'm going at some point to make my furnace, and start making my own jewelry with scrapped metals :D
I love this channel. I don’t do much casting but it’s entertaining. No chit chat, no bullshit, straight buisness. That’s what I love the most. Plus the fact you know what good beer is. 😉
Good Sir, You are living the dream!!! Working with various metals and alloys casting cool thing's. It's every man's dream to play with fire, *Safely of course*. I love that emerald green glow when the copper heats up. Keep up the good work!!!
@AriesAreTheBest it literally represents the word 'life' but there is no single meaning for the symbol. It can be used to represent the afterlife/immortality or used for fertility/future life.
I'm Egyptian and I very happy ...I love your work and I hope you visit my country Egypt ....thanks very much.🙋🙋🐫🐫💛💛 أنا مواطن مصري ...وانا اتابعك بإستمرار وسعيد جدا ...أنا أحب عملك وأتمنى أن تقوم بزيارة بلدي مصر (أرض الفراعنة)...أشكرك شكراً جزيلاً 🙋🙋🐫🐫💛💛
I used to scrap electronics and motors and sell the copper aluminum and brass. I still scrap but now I save everything to melt lol youre an inspiration
They came out nice; especially the Copper one. I was surprised that one kept flaming up though. Interesting. I like your videos. They are so relaxing. Love watching your dogs too...Bullion is still such a baby. Biting on the metal. Ingot the old pro just chillaxing. Have a great weekend!
Ok, first of all ...amazing work, but those puppies?! Those faces?! The best part of the video, they steal the show! You’re videos are addictive. Great work.✌️
I have watched MANY of your videos...you sir have inspired me...I have ordered my own smelter, molds, safety gear...everything i need to get started...im going to start with easy melts but my goal is to smelt some nordic gold! I love that stuff
Another great video. Thanks for posting this. It sure is nice to get these each week. Keep it up. And now I'm letting the adds roll through each time. I hope that helps. Keep up the good work. Cheers!
I know you said the open poured Ankh was a thumbs down, but with the history of those relics, that defect gives it character and makes it look a bit ancient. Double thumbs up from me.
How are all you sensational subs and random viewers this week? I hope everyone is happy and healthy and I hope you can sit back turn off your worries and tune out of life while I make today’s awesome additions to my stack. While watching a documentary on Egypt it got me thinking I don’t have any Egyptian treasure so why not make my own . I have seen this piece and design a lot over the years I remember the first time I saw it was playing the original Tomb Raider on PSone when I was a little kid.
So today I’ll cast The Ankh.
The ankh or key of life is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol that was most commonly used in writing and in Egyptian art to represent the word for "life" .
Now that that’s all said and done Why not Donate a little bit of your time in The way of allowing one or two ads to play through this will help support the channel😆 more revenue means more giveaways👊🏻😄. A better way to support the channel is play one of my playlists on your computer before you walk away from it and let it play through that really helps as well but don’t ever feel as though you need to watch the ads if you don’t want to simply skip them and move into the video it’s completely up to you and I understand if you don’t have the time to do so👌🏻
I'm good how are you my good sir?
Doin' good, how about you?
I imagined Doc Brown’s “gasp” when his model car set the trash bin on fire in “back to the future” when your frame lit up on the first pour lol
I like the gold one mate, all the imperfections make it look ancient
Since you hit your target what are you going to do? Sell it all? What's the total value?
In a thousand years archeologists will ponder the mystery of BigStackD. The Ancient Australian King.
can you imagine if his stack became a fieldtrip location? " an here we have BigStackD's stack. these were made by the afore mentioned ancient smelter king of Australia."
I want to like this comment but it’s at 69 likes so I can’t
Give this man a medal for his brains
Do you even know what an ankh is? M8?
Right!🤣
Loved that image of the Ankh that would continously re-light itself in flames after the holy water was tossed on it!
One of my favorite casting videos for sure.
You: *puts skull on ice.*
Me: “alright. Standard procedure.”
You: *drops propane tank on it.*
Me: “Oh! Ok buddy.”
How did you spent your quarantene?
Big: "melting metal and drinking beer"
Oh yeah!
Working from home ,...hello
dammit i was melting beer and drinking metal
i always get those two mixed up
no i am not a russian bot why do you ask ?
The real mystery is how those shelves are staying up =P
S T E E L
J O K E
Every time I see the spray bottle, I expect to hear “bad kitty!”😆 Also, I love the socks.
This can be taken one of two ways
Kittys got done eaten by them two ignots
13:19 yeah and every time I see that skull I hear “NYEH HEH HEH”
The 69th like
The thing that never gets old is when he smashes the ice with something
Yep!!
I wish I had the ability to do this stuff. Other than the financial means to aquire the equipment my health keeps me pretty much stationary. But I love watching people make things, and dreaming up stuff I would love to make. Loved the Ankh. Maybe oneday I wqill find someone around here who can do something similar for me. Thank you for another interesting video, and something new to think about.
"Ive always wanted one, so I'll make 4 instead."
Cause why not?
Hello, boys! 🧡🐾🖤🐾
There's just something about a flaming ankh that refuses to be extinguished...😬
Indeed it looked absolutely awesome when it kept re-igniting,
off-camera I let it burn for quite awhile as I had a beer while watching it👌🏻😁
@@bigstackD
They all turned out stunning! 🤟😎
@5:35 watching the black flake off of the skull in the boiling ice to reveal the raw copper colour. Really nice. One of you finest moments.
That shot of you brushing the nordic gold ankh almost reminded me of an archaeologist finding an artifact :O
Beautiful pieces, still impressed by how much detail some packed earth can get!
*MINECRAFT FLASHBACKS*
That khemetic nor Nordic lmfao
I've become a big fan of your videos - and as much as the melting and casting impresses - I have to say that your neatness and attention to detail when cleaning up / squaring away is top shelf , too.
Those came out nice an purdy 👍🏻 always fun watching you light shit on fire 🤣
Those socks tho xd
Lmao right?
@ArtByAdrock Amen to that!
Yes, I like watching your relaxing Egyptian video so as to "cast" away my ankh-xiety.
I keep waiting for the collapsed shelf video lol. Great vid as always
Same lol
Before you reach 1 tonne, you should make a life size nordic gold statue of Ingot.
I think Ingot wouldn't enjoy being covered in petrobond and having it hammered down. I could be wrong.
@@mikethomas9623 Likely be MUCH simpler (and easier) to have a full size statue carved from foam or plaster and use that to make the mould...
Certainly would cause less long-term problems too...
I can certainly see the munchkins retaliating with all kinds of havoc if he tried using them to make the moulds...(chewed up furniture & shoes, re-colouring various fabric items yellow - 1 patch at a time, leaving brown surprise "Packages" where you least expect to step on them, digging up the grass/gardens etc.)...
The flaming ankh looked badass especially when it reignited.
8:42 probably one of the most satisfying moments on this channel, and that’s saying a lot
Love this content, forever watching
The ending made me think, you can 3d print a pyramid. Without the limestone cap on top. Just the pyramid with brick texture and cast it out of copper. Then, tou can melt aluminum, and upturn the pyramid and dip it in and coat the top. Do it several times to thicken it up. Then it looks like it has the cap on top!
Any time I see an Ankh, I think of the old sci-fi movie “Logan’s Run.” Great work!
Me too! I remember that movie when it came out.
"You can live!"
In the future, it won't be about being older than 21, it will be about whether you are vaccinated or not!
@@davidbee3704 in the movie it was 31, because most of the lead actors were infact already over 30!!
One of your best videos yet. It's amazing to see how your skills and techniques have developed. This is still my favorite weekly video. Thanks for putting the time in making them.
Those shelves tho. They are the true hero’s in this story.
In 1715, a hurricane sank a 10 ships in a Spanish treasure fleet very close to the east coast of Florida.
From time to time after storms, Spanish gold washes ashore to be found by the army of people with
metal detectors.
If your very cool casting was left on this beach, you could easily cause a heart attack when someone found
your artwork.
They wouldn't know it was an Egyptian design at first
Bravo!!! Well done...
_Who else likes before watching cause they know it’s a banger_
fuck yessss
I liked at 15 seconds lmao
hit like then play :)
@@joeja6941 damn right brother
Always a relaxing pleasure to watch your videos. Thank you. I look forward to each of them. Please keep them coming.
Hey Dion, those are absolutely awesome, thank you so much to both you & Adam for the wonderful distraction from this most stressful election ever... Love y'all
👌🏻😁
LOVE the fun socks and thank you.... I so love Egyptian artifacts, casting them would be so much fun ... your a blessed man buddy... knowing you in real time as well as the kids (fur babies) would of been a real pleasure!!! Keep up the great job and showing them fun socks off ... to cool!!!
Bullion at the end: time to steal Bigstackd's hard work
ingot: out of my way plis
I just found your channel not even a week ago and I don’t know how I never stumbled across your channel. It is really calming and very entertaining to watch you do this. And have inspired me to become like you one day. Thank you for the great content
This vid is - considering all your non ingot casting vids - the best one so far - originality-wise (and object-wise) and diversity-of-metal-mixes-being-poured-in-one-vid-wise ! Great job indeed !
That open-casting was cool!
“Fire! Fire!”
The Nordic gold was actually my favorite one. Looked like a real relic aged over time!
this reminds me when i use to strip down old IBM computers that my school would get rid of, the amount of copper i would get on top of getting silver and gold from them was just amazing
Every time I watch your videos, I think to myself surely he can't top the last one. Wrong again. This was absolutely phenomenal. Love to see the boys and then an epic pour. This truly was a great one. Am sure I'll be watching it several more times. 👍👍👍
As always, a sensational video of melts. Seeing that u enjoy the Egyptian style of melts/molds, I think a pyramid of Nordic gold would look great to add to your collection. Maybe even have the details of the layers in it too. Just an idea. See ya in next week's episode of castings.
Why do your socks remind me of the Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo?
Probably because they are Scooby Doo socks matey👌🏻
@@bigstackD LMFAOO
I would never ever have thought of doing anything like what you have done! Wow wow wow. You have set a spark in my head l thought was dead. I got heaps of scrap in the factory. It's time to wake up and start learning again. You freaking Legend. Thank YOU.
I love the ankh "key of life " I have tattooed
Why so early because of Daylight Savings Time and of course do you know when is the Cheers 🍻 segment is going to come, It needs two Cheers 🍻 segments before melting and then after melting
Every time I see the spray bottle, I expect to hear “bad kitty!”😆 Also, I love the socks.
@@laurieross538 are you Conner and 83 metalworks
🎥These videos are continuously getting better!! Terrific content D! Thank you for your many hours of effort for each one!👊
Hey Big. When you do your mixed metal melt of all your slag, You should do a mega cube and then polish it up and then get someone to collab with that does engraving and get them to do a funky pattern on all the sides. Great Video cant wait to see the fan mail unboxing and melt. Cheers.
Like uri tuchman
These ankhs are really well done, it's really nice to see how much you learned the "metal psychology" (as my jewelry teacher liked to say), your casts clearly gained in quality over your videos (y)
Keep up the good work, thx to you i'm going at some point to make my furnace, and start making my own jewelry with scrapped metals :D
This channel is so underrated
But you can’t believe I triple hearted you either🤔
Love anything you do in Nordic gold. Very appealing.
Me: *sees BigstackD start to cut the ends off the cables* oh man those are gonna go flying!
Ends: *plop*
Me: Well that was anticlimactic...
And also strangely satisfying.
I love this channel. I don’t do much casting but it’s entertaining. No chit chat, no bullshit, straight buisness. That’s what I love the most. Plus the fact you know what good beer is. 😉
"The Flaming Ankhs" was my high-school Goth garage band's name.
The Ankh burning and glowing red in the sand might be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, the key of life turned into a key of flames haha
Pops a cold one, kicks off shoes, puts feet up, turns on tele. At that moment you're living better than any Pharaoh ever did.
Yeah i dunno about that... But for sake of youtube censorship, we'll say your right :P
Those socks alone made the whole video! lol
Reminds me of the hippy days when kids painted their vw bugs and minivans with flowers like that.
Damn it. I’ve been looking for battery terminal cables everywhere
Good Sir, You are living the dream!!! Working with various metals and alloys casting cool thing's. It's every man's dream to play with fire, *Safely of course*. I love that emerald green glow when the copper heats up. Keep up the good work!!!
Your artifact is called a Ankh! It represents life!
Not me. I'd assume the shape infers a cyclic infinite continuation of life and death?
It´s actually a city map of Atlantis... :-)
@@ahamay2012
CALL THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS, QUICK!
@AriesAreTheBest it literally represents the word 'life' but there is no single meaning for the symbol. It can be used to represent the afterlife/immortality or used for fertility/future life.
That open mold pour of the ankh was ....ooooh. Satisfying to watch.
Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb on Netflix is a good documentary movie.
Thx for the reminder, saw the trailer but forgot it. Will watch today :)
I'm Egyptian and I very happy ...I love your work and I hope you visit my country Egypt ....thanks very much.🙋🙋🐫🐫💛💛
أنا مواطن مصري ...وانا اتابعك بإستمرار وسعيد جدا ...أنا أحب عملك وأتمنى أن تقوم بزيارة بلدي مصر (أرض الفراعنة)...أشكرك شكراً جزيلاً 🙋🙋🐫🐫💛💛
Very Nice, Ankh's and Skulls The Pharaohs would be Pleased
The Flaming Ankh was Awesome Looking!!!
Oh yeah this one is my favorite one I love Egypt treasure's and Anubis statues and Horus😍
Literally putting lifeless scrap, into a symbol of Life. Impressive 👍
Took a couple years off my life today melting scrap lead. Always nice to see your pours.
I used to scrap electronics and motors and sell the copper aluminum and brass. I still scrap but now I save everything to melt lol youre an inspiration
A nice Ankh, symbol of life in ancient Egypt, life be with you always.
Thank you for wearing a Respirator and letting people see it. Good safety role model.
I liked the less than perfect ones more. They looked older and like they might have been in a tomb or something. Nice melt dude.
Respect for the Monkey Island shirt. I love those games
🤩 that’s your best video ever. I love those Egyptian treasures.
Hey Bickstack! I love your content, thanks for all of your effort.
Excellent video BigstackD, those ankh's look great! Every time i see an ankh i think of the Avatar from the Ultima series.
You do Awesome works of Art BUT I do luv it when you chill with a beer & kick them shoes off Brother!
Every time I see you cute dogs, makes me love my two a little more. I can’t believe how much these dogs mean to me!
I LOVE the ankh. I've worn an ankh pendant necklace for the last 12 year's.
So seeing you make one got me very excited! 😁
Always been a fan of Egyptian culture and history. Love those ankhs.
Just like to say how much I enjoy watching your channel and your smelting I find it relaxing 😎👍 best wishes 😎👍,john s.wales uk🏴
Nordic Gold is amazing looking stuff. I've never seen anything else that comes closer to the real stuff.
They came out nice; especially the Copper one. I was surprised that one kept flaming up though. Interesting. I like your videos. They are so relaxing. Love watching your dogs too...Bullion is still such a baby. Biting on the metal. Ingot the old pro just chillaxing. Have a great weekend!
Ok, first of all ...amazing work, but those puppies?! Those faces?! The best part of the video, they steal the show! You’re videos are addictive. Great work.✌️
I have watched MANY of your videos...you sir have inspired me...I have ordered my own smelter, molds, safety gear...everything i need to get started...im going to start with easy melts but my goal is to smelt some nordic gold! I love that stuff
I enjoy a lot when you clean everything meticulously after metalworking.
Love the socks...I need some of those! Great forge design...I need one of those! Beautiful cast!
These Egyptian Artifacts look great!😃👍
Another great clip. Bonus Ingot at the end is appreciated. Thanks for all you do.
Some Age of Mythology vibes at 15:07. Amazing pieces as always 🙌🙌🙌
Man the copper one came out so well and i love it
Love the slide air adjustment on the new forge.
Cracking bit of kit that 👍
Watched with my 12 year old, when he saw them he channeled his inner Indiana Jones and said "It belongs in a museum!"
That’s a fine collection of Egyptian bottle openers! I also caught a glimpse of a Judge Dredd badge in your hoard… good choice.
All the best Lad!
Another great video. Thanks for posting this. It sure is nice to get these each week. Keep it up. And now I'm letting the adds roll through each time. I hope that helps. Keep up the good work. Cheers!
Digging the socks bigstackD 👍. Keep up your awesome work man, always love watching your work.
I've been a fettler and a mould maker and I loved winding up the casters 👍 great video
Anyone else notice how neatly stacked the beer's are 😄😄😄
I know you said the open poured Ankh was a thumbs down, but with the history of those relics, that defect gives it character and makes it look a bit ancient. Double thumbs up from me.
We need more motor melts!! Gotta fill the wall with more motor tabs. Love the vids!!👍🏻
The image of that open-cast ankh burning in its mould was gorgeous, worth the sight even if the end product wasn't quite clear. Bravo!
The pup has good taste. I like the skulls also. I'd carry it around in my pocket all the time.
I'm just waiting for the day that one of his videos will be titled " melting down house to make some bars"
Great video this week D. The ankh turned out really good. Cheers 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻👍🐺
I was just thinking we hadn't seen any green flame in a while 😉 Great video as usual, thank you.