One Ounce Nugget

[chlsbrns]

I cast the one oz nugget shown below from some of my fines. It's my first time casting anything. I think it turned out ok but I'm going to try and cast some GNARLY Nuggets.

I'm going to try casting arrowheads, doubloons and other cool things.

 

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[chlsbrns]

Hey There chlsbrns,
Interesting hobby you've started for yourself. The practice you are getting now could just give you more than the smile and the giggle your are getting from your efforts at the moment. Who knows what this pastime might bring to you in the future in the form of turning your dust into objects of art.

Did you just have the oven around and what would they cost new?? Thanks much...............63bkpkr

You can get a furnace on ebay for about $400 but really don't need it. A Mapp or acetylene gas torch and a crucible will do just fine. Either otrch can be bought for less than $50.

I just made this from an 1883 Hobo V Nickel. I haven't cleaned it up yet and messed up breaking off the excess gold. I'll probably melt it and do it again. The pic sucks too!

 

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[bedrock bubba]

I cast the Madusa. The pics suck! The coin looks much better than the pic.

I'm going to try some roman coins. I'm going to run out of gold fines but I have some jewelry I can melt.

Is that the old Roman version of Nancy Pelosi?

Pretty scary, man!

 

[recondigger]

You could use a hand held MAPP gas torch or a small acetylene gas torch to melt, a hammer to flatten and then use your imagination to hammer some sort of design using chisels & other tools.

I tried MAPP but is there a torch nozzle that works better because after trying and even using fire brick built around it I couldn't get it hot enough. I have the sand and small crucible but no luck with getting hot enough.

Dig until your arm falls off

 

[chlsbrns]

I tried MAPP but is there a torch nozzle that works better because after trying and even using fire brick built around it I couldn't get it hot enough. I have the sand and small crucible but no luck with getting hot enough.

Dig until your arm falls off

I've used a MAPP torch but it had a swirl tip or something like that? Any MAPP should work. It just takes time.

 

[Jimmydolittle]

Make yourself a mini fire brick furnace. You can then use your mapp gas torch to melt with. Gold Refining Forum.com ? View topic - Using the Mini-Firebrick furnace

 

[Reed Lukens]

I have some thoughts but have been looking at items on ebay to cast.

Any Suggestions?

Some Pirate treasure
Authentic Disney Trading Pin POTC Aztec Gold Pirate Coin Pin | eBay

Pirate Coins & Doubloons

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[chlsbrns]

Hi Reed. I just got some doubloons from that company. I got 6 of the Individual Gold and Silver Escudo Doubloon Replicas. 2 of each size. Not one of them looks like the pic they show! They look so bad that I doubt that I would cast them.

The Disney coin looks good though!

 

[flyadive]

Holy crap!

 

[kuger]

I have a dear old friend that actually bought dies for huge Indian head Nickle type coins on E-Bay,and he has cast about 20 oz worth...easier to keep he says...LOL. I have melted fines and poured it over rock salt as well.It looks pretty neat

 

[mellowyellow]

I finally got around to casting a skull bar. 60.47 grams!

That's really cool! Pirates of the Caribbean! I like my gold to stay the way I found it, but that's a cool idea.

 

[GrizzlyGremlin]

I like this! Personally i think the nugget is much more boring than the other pendants and i bet sone would fetch as much as a nugget anyway! Really cool man. I got a few requests. First cast a bullet. Maybe a 243 or other dramatically necked down cartridge like the WSM line. Other thing. How about natural shapes? closed pine cone, holly leaf, made into earings! Bleached mink skull or a small femur bone.
I bet most of the natural stuff is too irregularly shaped. Possibilities are endless.
I smell a new Forum called Melting/smelting lol. I guess a ring for my GF would be a cinch! Good to know!

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Cool

 

[geturdug]

I have not tried this but I was told by an old prospector if you want to make some nuggets you drop your melted gold in water.He had onces of gold shaped like a tea spoon which he said a tea spoon of gold will be an ounce.Like i said never tried it just what i was told.

 

[kazcoro]

Hard to believe that the clay will hold that detail.

 

[triple d]

Great idea. Supper cool.

 

[KevinInColorado]

I have not tried this but I was told by an old prospector if you want to make some nuggets you drop your melted gold in water.He had onces of gold shaped like a tea spoon which he said a tea spoon of gold will be an ounce.Like i said never tried it just what i was told.

what you make that way is not a nugget, it is jewelry...or just a cool doodad. That said, I bet it would spit up some HOT steam and be quite dramatic!

Edit: removed my scolding sentence since that was said above and I'm not here to browbeat people about fraud n stuff.

 

[chlsbrns]

what you make that way is NOT a nugget, it is jewelry. It would be fraud to represent that as a nugget.

Pouring melted gold in water will not look like jewelry or a nugget. Try it!

 

[kabah088]

Screw the haters!

This is cool and I like what you did with the cast gold coins.

How many grams of gold fines did you use for the medusa and Athens coin?

 

[chlsbrns]

The Athena weighs 20.71 grams. The Medusa weighs 11.83 grams. Both are about 1" in diameter. The Athena is thicker.

 

[marion moore]

fairly new member, first time trying this, I have melted a small gold ring and poured it into a small bucket of water, it looks like a different nugget each time you do it.