I know of a goldsmith who collected all of their emery paper for 15 years, had it refined and made $16,000 back, purely for just not throwing away any bit of emery paper.
I kinda guessed from your ring videos that scraps could easily be used for adding volume to molten rings or recycling them in other projects, but I never imagined there could be enough scraps to actually be exchanged for new tools or equipment. Always something new to learn.
If you do it on your own Id love to see a video of you refining your gold scraps. It seems like an interesting process, especially from sweeps and the dust, as I wonder how you deal with the stuff that isn't gold that ends up in there. Like does it just burn off, or?
It's a whole chemical process, very entertaining to see btw. But they mix different solutions that separate the metals becuase some metals are reactive to some solutions. I've seen videos of how they separate them and molten. Highly recomended.
The amount of real gold jewelry I've found at thrift stores and the like is astounding. Idk if people just don't know what they have or what, but I've gotten some great pieces.
Never to worry gold scraps. You can use fire to separate purest gold. Don't feel guilty. I know of a friend who uses vacuum cleaner to clean his gold smith studio. The collects dust and throw them on a bin. Once the container is fill up, he uses heat and still able to turn gold dust into money. Once in a blue moon he cleans up his pipeline coming from his jewelry washing area, he is able to collect gold dust too. Nothing is wasted if you know how the process of collecting them.
When I was first learning from other goldsmiths, I remember spending one slow day in the shop crawling around the floor picking up gold scraps and escapee diamonds
Love the videos, I am thirteen and have an amazing 18k signet passed down 3 generations. It is awesome to watch you using old gold to make new things, keep it up!
My grandfather was a policeman during WW2 and was sent to help in the city of Coventry during the blitz. He said the fires from the incendiary bombs were so bad that the gold in the jewellery quarter liquified and dripped through the floorboards. I know it’s not about scraps, but I was so shocked when grandad first told me that, it must have been like being in hell itself. So proud of my grandad that he stood for, and did his duty.
Your ✨vibe✨ and your videos are so cool. I normally don't give a f about jewelry but the way you explain everything is so entertaining I had to subscribe
I may be late to the party but my vote is on making more jewelry with them, I would think that it would be worth more at the end and you get to get your creative juices flowing AND make a very happy future customer with a unique piece 🤷🏽♀️😊 so that’s my best suggestion 😁
OMG thank you for this, I wondered for YEARS where all the gold dust when. Think I see gold as a finite source, so I was worried it will run out one day !
If it was my decision, I would first buy the laser; great tools are sublime. I'd start designing a fine piece for myself, heavy & beautifully wrought, and start saving scraps to create it. Gold can be too flashy, so I might then enamel the piece. Art!
I totally believe he paid off his 20 year old mortgage with scraps. 20 years ago houses were soooo much cheaper plus he already paid off 20 years of the mortgage so only like 10 years to pay off of a way smaller mortgage.
can you show how you refine the gold? no one ever shows it on youtube or film in general. especially how you go about refining the gold to a specified karat
I'm late to the party as I just found your channel yesterday or the day before. That being said, I reside in Arkansas (was born and raised in Illinois) but I don't have a car or a bike. I would love to have scraps of gold and sell them for another bike 🚲!
Watched a doco a while ago about how gold is smelted and refined. Had filters everywhere to try and capture all of the gold dust particles. So maybe a you could invest in fine air filters if not already, or if it’s worth it? I helped a few friends with decision, so you too could pull of the shaved head look, be confident in it, own it, love it.
I think you should do what ever makes you more money or craftsman which accomplish both! PS. Could you please do a video on the differences between yellow gold and white gold?
A little off topic here, and being the Modern Goldsmith maybe inappropriate, but I would love to see how julery was made 15-20 years ago. With no 3D printer or stuff like that. Keep up the good content, we are all here for that!
That is Sooo awesome!!! I personally just want an actual jewelers bench. I have been working on a handmade bench that my neighbor made for me. And although i absolutely appreciate it and am so grateful there are many aspects of it that just dont work for me. For instance its entirely too tall I have my chair raised as high as it will go and I still had to buy a booster seat recently😳😁, it doesnt have a sweeps/catch drawer so ALL of my "sweeps" land on the floor😭. I hope to start saving soon to buy myself an actual bench (even been keeping an eye out for used ones) its just with my health issues and just life expenses in general I havent been able to save yet. Cant wait to see what you do with yours!!!💙
This brings me to an internal struggle I have: I have jewelry from family that I do wear because it is not my style. Do I just leave it in the darkness of my lock box or do I sell it? Do I have something made? Any guidance? I don't want to get taken advantage of if I try selling.
I don’t think selling is ever the best option unless it’s a private party sale. You’d be almost better off just giving your jewelry away to people you care about. But since it is YOUR jewelry, I’m a huge fan of restyling it to something you can love and enjoy now :)
I did a gold bangle with young creator/designer. Was happy to support an independent business but got impression of being ripped off on those scraps. For a final product weighting 15,6gram I was requested to provide 20 gram of gold (all 14 carats).
You probably didn’t get ripped off as it’s all included in the price and they have to make a rough estimate as there is filing and casting where you will always lose bits of gold
How was the transition from working for someone to working for your self? And I would dream of a laser! My company just brought a puk to my store but I was promised an Orion 😂
I just started working with gold and had a sold finished piece but the buyer wanted a longer chain. I wanted a laser but got a PUK arc welder as a next level up eventually hoping to get a laser in a couple years time. The Puk welder will pay for itself in about a year or less. Good luck. Enjoy the content.
I was really expecting a KEEPS ad right after you shared your "insecurity" with us. If it makes ya feel better, you can pull off the little hat of yours pretty well. :)
May I ask a question about gold? I recently got engaged and my fiancé bought a 14k yellow gold ring. But it keeps making my finger green! I thought yellow gold wouldn’t do that. How do you prevent it?
@@fortheloveofdesign6948 my ring is 14k gold and contains metal alloys, like all rings do. Nickel and copper are included in that compound. If my ring was 18 or higher, the compounds would be lower and therefore may not cause this reaction. But I have learned I’m allergic to nickel and need my ring made in platinum or rhodium plate
"Smashed the like button" not because of you sharing your insecurity, but because you have good content on a consistent basis! So it's really a "great job" smashing of the like button. :)
You could refine the gold and silver your self and maybe cut your input costs. That depends on the rate you receive for your scrap compared to the costs of acids etc and your interest in refining of course. It also depends on your need for fresh material for your work. The material you already have will be cheaper than buying more in the future given that the gold price will increase over time, so maybe you should at least keep some of the "known" gold for your stock of materials. What's this laser you speak of? Laser engraver? Laser Welder? Particularly if the new item of equipment will generate income greater than the expected increase in gold price, then you should swap your scrap for that equipment. That's just my 2 cents worth of input. 👍
Bald is no big deal! Guy make it a big deal, most women don't even notice! You are who you are, it's totally cool! I throughly enjoy your videos by the way!
Can you show how to refine it into a pure gold bar? Donte you have to chemically liquify the metals to separate them and then you end up with a gold powder looking substance yiu then melt into a bar?
Metal detectorist here who finds gold on beaches: I keep the wearable jewellery for sale in case I need the money one day. I collect the jewellery that is only scrap value over the year, then sell it as scrap gold and buy bullion for it as an investment.
Fellow baldie here. Honestly, we are our own worst enemy when it comes to the perception of baldness. Just remember that some of the world's most desired men are bald: The Rock, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, LL Cool J, Mark Strong, etc. Embrace it!
I have a matching scar on my left eyebrow that i got when my cousin and i were throwing a coat back and forth and i dove for it....into a thick wooden chair....because i wasn't the brightest kid :P
Over the years how many ounces of gold do you think you’ve pooped? Between tiny particles that get kicked up in the air, any residue on fingers you end up chewing on, etc. there has to be a number known only to the universe of the total ounces of buttgold (I guess you could say...booty?). Also,: Choose the laser. If given the option to choose between something and a laser beam-always, always choose the laser beam.
I'm looking into getting a mountain bike and man, there are bikes that are worth upwards of 10k lol, so maybe it's possible to get a wayy too nice bike with gold scraps
Can always turn the gold scrap into thin stands of wire and create a gold Toupée. Heh heh, just kidding. I'm going bald as well. Love your videos and vlogs.
I would save it for 1 more yr just in case you really need it. And see you may never know it could be worth double or triple depending on prices. So just save it!!
I know of a goldsmith who collected all of their emery paper for 15 years, had it refined and made $16,000 back, purely for just not throwing away any bit of emery paper.
I kinda guessed from your ring videos that scraps could easily be used for adding volume to molten rings or recycling them in other projects, but I never imagined there could be enough scraps to actually be exchanged for new tools or equipment. Always something new to learn.
Gold Dust-bunnies, Gold in the air, Gold [dust] on his clothes. I never thought about how gold could be everywhere in his studio after a project.
If you do it on your own Id love to see a video of you refining your gold scraps. It seems like an interesting process, especially from sweeps and the dust, as I wonder how you deal with the stuff that isn't gold that ends up in there. Like does it just burn off, or?
Then again a laser does sound cool as hell.
I was hoping he was going to do it in this video, going off the title.
It's a whole chemical process, very entertaining to see btw. But they mix different solutions that separate the metals becuase some metals are reactive to some solutions. I've seen videos of how they separate them and molten. Highly recomended.
… I love it
Check out Sreetips channel, he can refine bs into.999 Fine!
The amount of real gold jewelry I've found at thrift stores and the like is astounding. Idk if people just don't know what they have or what, but I've gotten some great pieces.
Never to worry gold scraps. You can use fire to separate purest gold. Don't feel guilty. I know of a friend who uses vacuum cleaner to clean his gold smith studio. The collects dust and throw them on a bin. Once the container is fill up, he uses heat and still able to turn gold dust into money. Once in a blue moon he cleans up his pipeline coming from his jewelry washing area, he is able to collect gold dust too. Nothing is wasted if you know how the process of collecting them.
A laser actually sounds pretty good and can be super helpful depending on what you're using it for
I know I’ve always wanted one….that would be an instant level-up for the shop
When I was first learning from other goldsmiths, I remember spending one slow day in the shop crawling around the floor picking up gold scraps and escapee diamonds
Its 3:39 AM thursday morning, and here i am watching your video from malaysia 💕
Love the videos, I am thirteen and have an amazing 18k signet passed down 3 generations. It is awesome to watch you using old gold to make new things, keep it up!
My grandfather was a policeman during WW2 and was sent to help in the city of Coventry during the blitz. He said the fires from the incendiary bombs were so bad that the gold in the jewellery quarter liquified and dripped through the floorboards. I know it’s not about scraps, but I was so shocked when grandad first told me that, it must have been like being in hell itself. So proud of my grandad that he stood for, and did his duty.
Thanks for sharing!
Interesting!! Love this little story
Your ✨vibe✨ and your videos are so cool. I normally don't give a f about jewelry but the way you explain everything is so entertaining I had to subscribe
Congrats on the baldness!💖💖💖 lol! love your channel and your calming energy!!
thank you! Next up, I think I’ll get a white beard
@@moderngoldsmith levelling up!💪✨
I may be late to the party but my vote is on making more jewelry with them, I would think that it would be worth more at the end and you get to get your creative juices flowing AND make a very happy future customer with a unique piece 🤷🏽♀️😊 so that’s my best suggestion 😁
Your talent and your family will always be most important here. 💯💯💯
Those urban legend scrap uses are pretty amazing lol
OMG thank you for this, I wondered for YEARS where all the gold dust when.
Think I see gold as a finite source, so I was worried it will run out one day !
technically it is not finite as long as meteors hit earth
If it was my decision, I would first buy the laser; great tools are sublime. I'd start designing a fine piece for myself, heavy & beautifully wrought, and start saving scraps to create it. Gold can be too flashy, so I might then enamel the piece. Art!
Use the scrap gold to make a little dragon charm on a bed of gold, and give it a gem or two to guard, then sell the beastie!
Always so informative! Thank you!
I totally believe he paid off his 20 year old mortgage with scraps. 20 years ago houses were soooo much cheaper plus he already paid off 20 years of the mortgage so only like 10 years to pay off of a way smaller mortgage.
Bro, you had me laughing the whole time. Worked till 4am this morning on something that should have taken an hour, needed the laugh
Thanks for sharing!
This is sooo interesting, thank you for sharing 😍🥺💖
Love this channel x
I like ur calmness
Been loving this channel
I am totally on Team Laser.😁👍👍
You may want to install a gold trap on your sink where you wash your hands. It adds up quickly.
can you show how you refine the gold? no one ever shows it on youtube or film in general. especially how you go about refining the gold to a specified karat
nile red has a video on it, a subscriber send him some jewerly and he give it back to the owner once it was done
Yesss!!! Please buy a laser!! Loved this video
I'm late to the party as I just found your channel yesterday or the day before. That being said, I reside in Arkansas (was born and raised in Illinois) but I don't have a car or a bike. I would love to have scraps of gold and sell them for another bike 🚲!
As an artist, I would pretty much trade what I had for tools too! Pretty good investments there
Watched a doco a while ago about how gold is smelted and refined.
Had filters everywhere to try and capture all of the gold dust particles.
So maybe a you could invest in fine air filters if not already, or if it’s worth it?
I helped a few friends with decision, so you too could pull of the shaved head look, be confident in it, own it, love it.
❤️my new favorite channel
I think you should do what ever makes you more money or craftsman which accomplish both! PS. Could you please do a video on the differences between yellow gold and white gold?
bro i am loving this video
i want more vids like this
A little off topic here, and being the Modern Goldsmith maybe inappropriate, but I would love to see how julery was made 15-20 years ago. With no 3D printer or stuff like that.
Keep up the good content, we are all here for that!
I love Petaluma market and deeply appreciated its feature. That's all.
That is Sooo awesome!!! I personally just want an actual jewelers bench. I have been working on a handmade bench that my neighbor made for me. And although i absolutely appreciate it and am so grateful there are many aspects of it that just dont work for me. For instance its entirely too tall I have my chair raised as high as it will go and I still had to buy a booster seat recently😳😁, it doesnt have a sweeps/catch drawer so ALL of my "sweeps" land on the floor😭. I hope to start saving soon to buy myself an actual bench (even been keeping an eye out for used ones) its just with my health issues and just life expenses in general I havent been able to save yet.
Cant wait to see what you do with yours!!!💙
I mean if you want to just level up your laser game there's nothing wrong with that. Perfectly reasonable use considering what you do for a living.
I was literally just thinking about when the next upload will be! I feel psychic.
This was so useful!
I quite like your amazingly amazing videos!!!!😊❤
This brings me to an internal struggle I have: I have jewelry from family that I do wear because it is not my style. Do I just leave it in the darkness of my lock box or do I sell it? Do I have something made? Any guidance? I don't want to get taken advantage of if I try selling.
I don’t think selling is ever the best option unless it’s a private party sale. You’d be almost better off just giving your jewelry away to people you care about. But since it is YOUR jewelry, I’m a huge fan of restyling it to something you can love and enjoy now :)
I did a gold bangle with young creator/designer. Was happy to support an independent business but got impression of being ripped off on those scraps. For a final product weighting 15,6gram I was requested to provide 20 gram of gold (all 14 carats).
You probably didn’t get ripped off as it’s all included in the price and they have to make a rough estimate as there is filing and casting where you will always lose bits of gold
How was the transition from working for someone to working for your self? And I would dream of a laser! My company just brought a puk to my store but I was promised an Orion 😂
I just started working with gold and had a sold finished piece but the buyer wanted a longer chain. I wanted a laser but got a PUK arc welder as a next level up eventually hoping to get a laser in a couple years time. The Puk welder will pay for itself in about a year or less. Good luck. Enjoy the content.
Still cool eyebrow dude.
Lasers are always cool.
hey make a vlog on how to collect gold on the dust I'm just curious since it is already a dust.
I was really expecting a KEEPS ad right after you shared your "insecurity" with us.
If it makes ya feel better, you can pull off the little hat of yours pretty well. :)
May I ask a question about gold? I recently got engaged and my fiancé bought a 14k yellow gold ring. But it keeps making my finger green! I thought yellow gold wouldn’t do that. How do you prevent it?
Copper when rusts gets green.. you should get your ring checked
@@fortheloveofdesign6948 my ring is 14k gold and contains metal alloys, like all rings do. Nickel and copper are included in that compound. If my ring was 18 or higher, the compounds would be lower and therefore may not cause this reaction. But I have learned I’m allergic to nickel and need my ring made in platinum or rhodium plate
@@pinkklink oh.i wasn't aware that nickel causes allergy. I think you should look into other options then.. 😊
I love your videos.
"Smashed the like button" not because of you sharing your insecurity, but because you have good content on a consistent basis! So it's really a "great job" smashing of the like button. :)
You could refine the gold and silver your self and maybe cut your input costs. That depends on the rate you receive for your scrap compared to the costs of acids etc and your interest in refining of course. It also depends on your need for fresh material for your work. The material you already have will be cheaper than buying more in the future given that the gold price will increase over time, so maybe you should at least keep some of the "known" gold for your stock of materials.
What's this laser you speak of? Laser engraver? Laser Welder? Particularly if the new item of equipment will generate income greater than the expected increase in gold price, then you should swap your scrap for that equipment. That's just my 2 cents worth of input. 👍
Bald is no big deal! Guy make it a big deal, most women don't even notice! You are who you are, it's totally cool! I throughly enjoy your videos by the way!
Very interesting.
Laser, all day. The amount of time it saves in the end will make you more money.
Can you show how to refine it into a pure gold bar? Donte you have to chemically liquify the metals to separate them and then you end up with a gold powder looking substance yiu then melt into a bar?
You should make a gold coin necklace
Great Video
I have a family heirloom I need repaired. Where is your shop located?
Metal detectorist here who finds gold on beaches:
I keep the wearable jewellery for sale in case I need the money one day.
I collect the jewellery that is only scrap value over the year, then sell it as scrap gold and buy bullion for it as an investment.
Always wanted to try that
@@moderngoldsmith careful! it is addictive!
Omg I also fell and have a scar in my eyebrow too! What did you fall on? I fell on that track that the shower door slides on 😐
OMG GET THE LASER
Hiya, and, like, hmm, so, and, like, well WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE LEMAL AND SCRAPS???
Do you make bangles ? Do you have a website?
Fellow baldie here. Honestly, we are our own worst enemy when it comes to the perception of baldness. Just remember that some of the world's most desired men are bald: The Rock, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, LL Cool J, Mark Strong, etc. Embrace it!
did you get the laser?
Look at sreetips here on TH-cam. Sreetips made some videos of him refining scrap gold and/or silver.
When I was very young I fell and hit my head on a table so I got that mark too
Make massive gold chain
Good video
I have a matching scar on my left eyebrow that i got when my cousin and i were throwing a coat back and forth and i dove for it....into a thick wooden chair....because i wasn't the brightest kid :P
This reminds of of Cody's Lab. He's not a goldsmith but he dabbles and melts down gold scrap.
He looks like Chris Evans.
Over the years how many ounces of gold do you think you’ve pooped? Between tiny particles that get kicked up in the air, any residue on fingers you end up chewing on, etc. there has to be a number known only to the universe of the total ounces of buttgold (I guess you could say...booty?).
Also,: Choose the laser. If given the option to choose between something and a laser beam-always, always choose the laser beam.
all the head hair now supporting that epic beard.
My brother had a similar accident at 4/5 years old. In high school people would give him a hard time for “trying to be cool”. It’s just a scar 😂
Youre such a trend setter.
Also, you could make a Gold Bald Cap.
I vote trip to Denmark but that’s just me. Please.
Yes, please! I'll go with you and watch the boys...😄❤🙏
I'm looking into getting a mountain bike and man, there are bikes that are worth upwards of 10k lol, so maybe it's possible to get a wayy too nice bike with gold scraps
You know what you should use it for..... a gold tooth 🦷 🤣
Since you mentioned it… I’m slowly balding, I’m considering to just shave it idk
Not hongjoong on your reference pics of your eyebrow look
Why do you only make engagement rings? I would use all that gold to make a wonderful big ruffled cuff bracelet.
Can always turn the gold scrap into thin stands of wire and create a gold Toupée. Heh heh, just kidding. I'm going bald as well. Love your videos and vlogs.
I would save it for 1 more yr just in case you really need it. And see you may never know it could be worth double or triple depending on prices. So just save it!!
This guy looks like my engineering teacher
you might be bald but i have no friends! :D who's winning now?
We can be digital friends. Unfortunately I’ve hit my real life adult quota of only 2 friends.
@@moderngoldsmith oh dang :( well an attempt was made! :D
Legend has it there was a bald goldsmith who made himself hair of gold.
You might think being bald is bad, but you look good. Plus no one will see it that much even if you being bald was bad, so yeah no worries man
God made very few perfect heads. The rest he covered with hair. 😊
I would hold on to your scraps a bit longer gold is going to increase in value soon! And save silver it really will:))
Hey that's my ring! :)
Buy a laser!!!!! It's gonna absolutely change your life in smithing and repair especially
Get a laser its an investment
"Cool I guess" LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
I hit the like button before the bald comment. You're welcome. Lol