Hi everyone, today I start making my Dad's old backgammon set. I've finally decided on the metals I will use... so lets get this baby started !!! Hope you enjoy this series. Don't forget to like, subscribe, comment and all that jazz. Cheers all, stay safe... Andy 👍😎🍺
Fantastic pour Andy, Edge of the seat stuff again. and NOW I see why I've missed out on the other give aways, It's cos when you've finished this beautiful set It'll be a give away with only ONE entrant...........MEEEEEEEEEEEEE ;@) Ps I WILL grind you down eventually, resistance is futile lol. really lookin forward to pt 2, they should polish up a treat, well done
Thanks Kayla, hopefully they'll look a bit nicer when their finished... Closing the business as of Monday for a couple of weeks, hoping to make a bunch of videos whilst I'm off... You take care too... Best wishes Andy 😎👍🍺
Nerve racking watching those counters come out of the sand after so much work but they looked nice. Look forward to the next instalment. Cheers MeltandCast.
Thanks Francis, It's always a nice feeling when you finally get the casting out of the mould and find that it's all worked out OK. I've had my fair share of fails, which I don't mind - but the kicker is the loss of time when you have to do it all over again. Best wishes Andy 😎👍🍺
Thanks Danjda, hopefully there will be quite a few videos in the coming weeks. I'm not doing much else right now !!! I have a few projects that need some time that I have been waiting to do for quite a while. Keep safe and good luck with your forge, best wishes Andy 🍺👍😎
Wow, Andy! Those are beautiful, Mate! Thanks for creating and sharing such great, uplifting content in these uncertain times. Stay safe and well Mate. All the best.
Can't wait to see the finished product. Also it's great having your videos to watch because it's definitely helping pass the time while we are in Covid 19 lockdown
Thanks Joseph, yeah crazy times indeed... At least I'll get to make more casting videos over the next few weeks !!! Hopefully I'll be able to help pass a bit more of that time !!! Best wishes and stay safe... Andy 🍺👍😎
+great video very informative I’m so glad the counters came out looking really good. Nice to see the end product with the Shibuichi as I am attempting to make some pendants using the same 35% mix . Love the colour of the metal.
Andy as always your projects are great to watch, a true Oasis in this crazy world right now. I have spent a good part of my week looking for and investing in physical silver which is in very low supply right now. Then I switch over to watch you make something beautiful out of it. Great job.
Thanks a lot Ford, that's really kind of you to say so mate. Mad times indeed !!! Hope you enjoy where this series leads... hopefully I don't balls it up along the way haha. Cheers Andy 🍺👍😎
Thanks Awldune, It was quite hot at around 1250℃. I usually try and get a bit closer with the camera and get a shot of the inside of the crucible when I pour and the colours come out a bit better... Trouble is half the time I try that I overheat the camera and sometimes I can't recover the file when the camera shuts down. It's really annoying when you don't have a money shot to put in the video, zooming in often results in grainy image too. I hope to resolve this in the next few weeks with a big camera upgrade and a zoom lens... Best wishes Andy 🍺👍😎
Thanks Wulfman, hopefully I'll be able to do them justice... looking forward to experimenting with the gold leaf too... Hope you and yours are OK during these mad times. Best wishes Andy 😎👍🍺
Thank's Dan... Just gotta get them finished....!!! I've put my back out again so I'm not really moving about much at the moment... I did manage to get a video done at the weekend though, I'm just editing it now for the weekend. Cheers Andy 👍🍺🥂
Beautiful look at that amazing metal! Could you do us a favor and hit some of that sibuichi with a blow torch and see if it leaves some color to it? How hard is it to hammer it or is it brittle?
Thanks Eleven, I'll heat up the sprue's before I remelt them on the next video (If I remember !!!) Off the top of my head I think the more silver you add, the harder it gets, with 25% silver it's still quite soft I think - once you get to around 40% it gets a lot harder. There are different grades of Shibuichi depending on the silver content. Cheers Andy 👍😎🍺
Stunningly beautiful. On the question of the amount of metal for next pour, could you make the pouring ponds a little smaller as well as putting the counters closer? Hate to mess with success, but maybe an idea. Good luck on the project.
Thanks Mark, I'm definitely going to have to take a different approach on the next pour as I used all the metal on this one. Even re-melting all the sprues, vents and channels it's still going to be tight. I have a 15% Shibuichi ingot which weighs around 6-700g so I may just add that to the next pour and just go for a slightly lower percentage of silver instead. It should still be at least 20% silver and that gives a good result too. They will be patinated black anyway so it shouldn't matter too much. It takes me quite a while to make the sand mould each time so I'd rather not do it twice... It's either that or I knock up some smaller boxes and try and raid some extra silver from somewhere... hehe. Cheers Andy 😎👍🍺
Those turned out great but it looks like you have your work cut out for you when cutting off the sprues and polishing! You should do a collaboration with VOG (another UK guy who does castings) You both seemed to have the same approach to the hobby. Thanks for the vids!
Thanks Hobbies, yeah quite a bit of work still to do on those before the gold leaf... I have a belt sander with a table that makes fairly short work of tidying them up though, so it's not too bad... I'll spend a bit more time on these ones though I kinda rushed the brass test set. Cheers Andy 🍺👍😎
Thanks Sebastiao, I think Shibuichi is quite unusual in that the copper will form oxides but the silver rich regions won't. It might sound wrong but apparently detailed studies have proved this to be correct. But in answer to your question to all intents and purposes, yes it will tarnish. Cheers Andy 😎👍🍺
beautiful metal - I fell in love. receptors simple, but I can not understand the name and what how where for what and for what. maybe some link .... best regards Maciek -FAN
Dzięki Maćku. Shibuichi to japoński stop miedzi i srebra. Stop, który wykonałem w tym filmie, to 25% srebra i 75% miedzi. Shibuichi był tradycyjnie używany w japońskiej produkcji miecza. Po zakazie używania ceremonialnych mieczy kowale zajmujący się mieczem zaczęli używać metalu do wyrobu biżuterii i sztuki dekoracyjnej. Shibuichi można również wrzucić do wody, aby uzyskać wyżarzony wlewek. Chociaż jest to dość niebezpieczny proces. Wlewki wody stanowiły podstawę Tsuba, która była używana jako osłona dłoni w japońskich ostrzach i mieczach. Zrobiłem kilka filmów na temat odlewania wody. Możesz również zobaczyć przykłady Shibuichi na obrazach Google. Ciemne kolory metalu są wykonane metodą Niiro (gotowanie metalu), a zastosowany przepis na patynę nazywa się Związkiem Rokusho. Możesz sprawdzić je wszystkie online. Mam nadzieję, że to pomaga, najlepsze życzenia Andy😎👍🍺
Cześć Maciek, przepraszam, myślałem, że jesteś Norwegiem ... Przetłumaczyłem ci mój wcześniejszy komentarz na polski ... Mój dziadek był z Polski. Pochodził z Jasła pod Krosnem. Najlepsze życzenia kolego Andy 😎👍🍺
MeltandCast thank you again . of course, I'm from Poland, but I speak very good Norwegian (so both translations are good), and I understand a lot in English, and somehow I manage, although we admit that you surprised me with a lot of commitment. have a nice day mate
Good idea Brandon... although I'm hoping once the board and counters have half a dozen coats of lacquer on each, it won't be necessary. Ideally I want the counters to slide as easily as possible without any friction. If the bases of the counters are smooth enough it should be OK hopefully. Cheers Andy 😎👍🍺
Thank you Juned, I still need to finish these off... I've been taking a break for a while... but I'm hoping to get back to my normal weekly videos now. Hopefully i can get this first set finished in the next week or two. Best wishes Andy 🥂🍺👍
Not if I can help it, I do sometimes especially with dirty metals but most of the time I am using pure metals. The copper pipe I use is 99.85% pure and the only real issue is gas take up in the metal, any other impurities usually just float to the top. So far I have not had many issues with porosity especially with Shibuichi which always seems to pour clean. Sometimes I get a little porosity with pure copper but nothing that really spoils what I am doing... If I do I just call it character and shrug it off haha. Most fluxes make a real mess in the crucible and shortens their life considerably. I would always use a flux with brass though as it's really easy to burn the zinc off, although in practice I've had very little success in preventing this from happening. Cheers Andy 😎👍🍺
I still haven't checked it yet VIP, it's a crucible I rarely use. I'll check it this weekend with some water... Thanks for reminding me !! Cheers Andy 😎👍🍺
I'm current;y using talcum powder although it's not the best thing to use, can't remember the reason why - but there is a reason why it's not the best thing to use... It works though and most people have it lying around. The best thing to use is fine calcium carbonate powder (limestone) which I will order when I run out of talc. It's not expensive, talc is just what I had to hand when I started out. Cheers Andy 😎👍🍺
Hi Gabriela, its kinda pink ish... I'll get some close up shots of them in sunlight when I do the next video so you can see the colours properly... Cheers Andy 🥂👍😎
Andy, why are you doing this in petrobond? Wax patterns in Ultravest would be the way to go. Sprue to the back, it's easier to turn the back flat instead of working the sides and trying to keep them round. Thumbs up, but you can do better man.
Hi everyone, today I start making my Dad's old backgammon set. I've finally decided on the metals I will use... so lets get this baby started !!! Hope you enjoy this series.
Don't forget to like, subscribe, comment and all that jazz. Cheers all, stay safe... Andy 👍😎🍺
Can't wait to see this set all finished up! Great video as always Andy!
Thanks Metal, glad you enjoyed it mate 😎👍🍺
Fantastic pour Andy, Edge of the seat stuff again. and NOW I see why I've missed out on the other give aways,
It's cos when you've finished this beautiful set It'll be a give away with only ONE entrant...........MEEEEEEEEEEEEE ;@)
Ps I WILL grind you down eventually, resistance is futile lol.
really lookin forward to pt 2, they should polish up a treat, well done
Wicked awesome counters Andy!!!
Those turned out beautiful!!!
Stay safe friend!!!
Thanks Kayla, hopefully they'll look a bit nicer when their finished... Closing the business as of Monday for a couple of weeks, hoping to make a bunch of videos whilst I'm off... You take care too... Best wishes Andy 😎👍🍺
@@MeltandCast best of luck with everything!
Nerve racking watching those counters come out of the sand after so much work but they looked nice. Look forward to the next instalment. Cheers MeltandCast.
Thanks Francis, It's always a nice feeling when you finally get the casting out of the mould and find that it's all worked out OK. I've had my fair share of fails, which I don't mind - but the kicker is the loss of time when you have to do it all over again. Best wishes Andy 😎👍🍺
Thanks for keeping the content coming, a much needed tonic. With all this spare time I will be able to get my forge sorted out!
Thanks Danjda, hopefully there will be quite a few videos in the coming weeks. I'm not doing much else right now !!! I have a few projects that need some time that I have been waiting to do for quite a while. Keep safe and good luck with your forge, best wishes Andy 🍺👍😎
@@MeltandCast Cheers bud, thanks for helping keep me sane!
My pleasure mate 🍺👍😎
Wow, Andy! Those are beautiful, Mate! Thanks for creating and sharing such great, uplifting content in these uncertain times. Stay safe and well Mate. All the best.
Thanks Stromness, hopefully they'll look a bit better next time you see them. Thanks again, take care... Andy 😎🍺👍
Looking great
Thanks Levsco, much appreciated mate 😎🍺👍
Those are absolutely beautiful! Can’t wait to see them finished.
Thanks Gary, they look a bit rough now but hopefully they will look better soon 😎👍🍺. Cheers Andy
Can't wait to see the finished product. Also it's great having your videos to watch because it's definitely helping pass the time while we are in Covid 19 lockdown
Thanks Joseph, yeah crazy times indeed... At least I'll get to make more casting videos over the next few weeks !!! Hopefully I'll be able to help pass a bit more of that time !!! Best wishes and stay safe... Andy 🍺👍😎
I love this alloy better than Nordic gold, but I still love the Nordic gold alloy...LOL
I can't wait to see the finished product!
Awesome work Andy!!!
You are just getting better and better at this
Thanks Ronin, much appreciated mate. 😎👍🥂
I love the powder-sock parts.
Haha cheers, I only use the finest quality materials for casting... Ahem... 😎🍺👍
@@MeltandCast I love the sound. And hey, it works...
Price - 10/10
Effectiveness - 10/10
Amusing - 11/10
Hahaha 🍺👍😎
love your work wish i had more time to watch more often thx for a great vido.
+great video very informative I’m so glad the counters came out looking really good. Nice to see the end product with the Shibuichi as I am attempting to make some pendants using the same 35% mix . Love the colour of the metal.
Thanks Tony, hope your pendants come out well. I'm sure they will, Shibuichi is such a beautiful alloy. Take care buddy... Andy 😎🍺👍
Andy as always your projects are great to watch, a true Oasis in this crazy world right now. I have spent a good part of my week looking for and investing in physical silver which is in very low supply right now. Then I switch over to watch you make something beautiful out of it. Great job.
Thanks a lot Ford, that's really kind of you to say so mate. Mad times indeed !!! Hope you enjoy where this series leads... hopefully I don't balls it up along the way haha. Cheers Andy 🍺👍😎
Love that white-hot pour. Not sure if that was just the camera settings or if shibuichi always looks like that, but it looked awesome.
Thanks Awldune, It was quite hot at around 1250℃. I usually try and get a bit closer with the camera and get a shot of the inside of the crucible when I pour and the colours come out a bit better... Trouble is half the time I try that I overheat the camera and sometimes I can't recover the file when the camera shuts down. It's really annoying when you don't have a money shot to put in the video, zooming in often results in grainy image too. I hope to resolve this in the next few weeks with a big camera upgrade and a zoom lens... Best wishes Andy 🍺👍😎
Looking good, good luck with finishing it all up!
Thanks mate, much appreciated. Hope things are OK in your neck of the woods. Cheers Andy 🍺👍😎
@@MeltandCast Lots of aluminium to melt or home projects to do, hmm, wonder what I'll do this weekend!
Coming along nicely
Thanks mate 😎👍🍺
The new counters looked great, just think how good they will look all cut off and cleaned up.
Thanks Wulfman, hopefully I'll be able to do them justice... looking forward to experimenting with the gold leaf too... Hope you and yours are OK during these mad times. Best wishes Andy 😎👍🍺
Great mold and perfect pour
Thank's Dan... Just gotta get them finished....!!! I've put my back out again so I'm not really moving about much at the moment... I did manage to get a video done at the weekend though, I'm just editing it now for the weekend. Cheers Andy 👍🍺🥂
Lovely lookin' color.
Thanks Pharaoh, stay safe buddy... Andy 😎🍺👍
Shuich such a gorgeous alloy! Also, love your Mustang shirt.
Haha thanks Bones, take care mate... Andy 👍🍺😎
simply beautiful! silver has long been one of my favorite metals, alongside every other lovely metal :)
Haha, yeah I know what you mean Zaph. Take care mate... Andy 😎🍺👍
Beautiful look at that amazing metal! Could you do us a favor and hit some of that sibuichi with a blow torch and see if it leaves some color to it? How hard is it to hammer it or is it brittle?
Thanks Eleven, I'll heat up the sprue's before I remelt them on the next video (If I remember !!!) Off the top of my head I think the more silver you add, the harder it gets, with 25% silver it's still quite soft I think - once you get to around 40% it gets a lot harder. There are different grades of Shibuichi depending on the silver content. Cheers Andy 👍😎🍺
This is making me want to fix my foundry and start again..
Do it mate, you won't regret it !!! Haha 😎👍🍺
Great stuff my friend
Thanks Big C, take care buddy 🍺👍😎
Very nice. Loved the project :)
Thanks buddy 🍺👍😎
wooow ;) cant wait to next part ;) looking good ;)
Cheers Johnny 👍🍺😎
@@MeltandCast cheers ;)
Cool color
Thanks mate, hopefully the colours will be a lot nicer when they are sanded and polished. Cheers Andy 🍺👍😎
Nice work man keep it up
Thanks James 😎👍🍺
Stunningly beautiful. On the question of the amount of metal for next pour, could you make the pouring ponds a little smaller as well as putting the counters closer? Hate to mess with success, but maybe an idea. Good luck on the project.
Thanks Mark, I'm definitely going to have to take a different approach on the next pour as I used all the metal on this one. Even re-melting all the sprues, vents and channels it's still going to be tight. I have a 15% Shibuichi ingot which weighs around 6-700g so I may just add that to the next pour and just go for a slightly lower percentage of silver instead. It should still be at least 20% silver and that gives a good result too. They will be patinated black anyway so it shouldn't matter too much. It takes me quite a while to make the sand mould each time so I'd rather not do it twice... It's either that or I knock up some smaller boxes and try and raid some extra silver from somewhere... hehe. Cheers Andy 😎👍🍺
Very nice
Those turned out great but it looks like you have your work cut out for you when cutting off the sprues and polishing! You should do a collaboration with VOG (another UK guy who does castings) You both seemed to have the same approach to the hobby. Thanks for the vids!
Thanks Hobbies, yeah quite a bit of work still to do on those before the gold leaf... I have a belt sander with a table that makes fairly short work of tidying them up though, so it's not too bad... I'll spend a bit more time on these ones though I kinda rushed the brass test set. Cheers Andy 🍺👍😎
Awesome video as usual, do you know if shibuichi alloy tarnishes?
Thanks Sebastiao, I think Shibuichi is quite unusual in that the copper will form oxides but the silver rich regions won't. It might sound wrong but apparently detailed studies have proved this to be correct. But in answer to your question to all intents and purposes, yes it will tarnish. Cheers Andy 😎👍🍺
@@MeltandCast thanks for answering Andy, that sucks but yeah that's the nature of it I guess😂👍
You can always spray the metal with lacquer, this will seal it and stop any tarnishing. I will do this with these counters when they're done. 🍺👍😎
i get nervous in projects like this when theyre going TOO well its coming out perfect.
Haha don't worry, I am really good at cocking things up so there's plenty of opportunity for mishaps yet !!! Cheers Andy 🍺👍😎
beautiful metal - I fell in love. receptors simple, but I can not understand the name and what how where for what and for what. maybe some link .... best regards Maciek -FAN
Dzięki Maćku. Shibuichi to japoński stop miedzi i srebra. Stop, który wykonałem w tym filmie, to 25% srebra i 75% miedzi. Shibuichi był tradycyjnie używany w japońskiej produkcji miecza. Po zakazie używania ceremonialnych mieczy kowale zajmujący się mieczem zaczęli używać metalu do wyrobu biżuterii i sztuki dekoracyjnej. Shibuichi można również wrzucić do wody, aby uzyskać wyżarzony wlewek. Chociaż jest to dość niebezpieczny proces. Wlewki wody stanowiły podstawę Tsuba, która była używana jako osłona dłoni w japońskich ostrzach i mieczach. Zrobiłem kilka filmów na temat odlewania wody. Możesz również zobaczyć przykłady Shibuichi na obrazach Google. Ciemne kolory metalu są wykonane metodą Niiro (gotowanie metalu), a zastosowany przepis na patynę nazywa się Związkiem Rokusho. Możesz sprawdzić je wszystkie online. Mam nadzieję, że to pomaga, najlepsze życzenia Andy😎👍🍺
MeltandCast thank you very much . I just couldn't understand why and what this metal is used for. Thank you for your commitment to help.
Cześć Maciek, przepraszam, myślałem, że jesteś Norwegiem ... Przetłumaczyłem ci mój wcześniejszy komentarz na polski ... Mój dziadek był z Polski. Pochodził z Jasła pod Krosnem. Najlepsze życzenia kolego Andy 😎👍🍺
MeltandCast thank you again . of course, I'm from Poland, but I speak very good Norwegian (so both translations are good), and I understand a lot in English, and somehow I manage, although we admit that you surprised me with a lot of commitment. have a nice day mate
What about putting felt on the bottom of your markers?
Good idea Brandon... although I'm hoping once the board and counters have half a dozen coats of lacquer on each, it won't be necessary. Ideally I want the counters to slide as easily as possible without any friction. If the bases of the counters are smooth enough it should be OK hopefully. Cheers Andy 😎👍🍺
MashaAllah its Beautiful 😊🌹
Thank you Juned, I still need to finish these off... I've been taking a break for a while... but I'm hoping to get back to my normal weekly videos now. Hopefully i can get this first set finished in the next week or two. Best wishes Andy 🥂🍺👍
Do you use any sort of flux?
Not if I can help it, I do sometimes especially with dirty metals but most of the time I am using pure metals. The copper pipe I use is 99.85% pure and the only real issue is gas take up in the metal, any other impurities usually just float to the top. So far I have not had many issues with porosity especially with Shibuichi which always seems to pour clean. Sometimes I get a little porosity with pure copper but nothing that really spoils what I am doing... If I do I just call it character and shrug it off haha. Most fluxes make a real mess in the crucible and shortens their life considerably. I would always use a flux with brass though as it's really easy to burn the zinc off, although in practice I've had very little success in preventing this from happening. Cheers Andy 😎👍🍺
So no pin holes in your crucible?
I still haven't checked it yet VIP, it's a crucible I rarely use. I'll check it this weekend with some water... Thanks for reminding me !! Cheers Andy 😎👍🍺
@@MeltandCast my name is Alex incase you wanted to know 😉👍
What do you use for the mold parting powder?
I'm current;y using talcum powder although it's not the best thing to use, can't remember the reason why - but there is a reason why it's not the best thing to use... It works though and most people have it lying around. The best thing to use is fine calcium carbonate powder (limestone) which I will order when I run out of talc. It's not expensive, talc is just what I had to hand when I started out. Cheers Andy 😎👍🍺
@@MeltandCast ok, cool thanks.
Could you please tell me if the color is yellowish or it is white ?
Hi Gabriela, its kinda pink ish... I'll get some close up shots of them in sunlight when I do the next video so you can see the colours properly... Cheers Andy 🥂👍😎
Andy, why are you doing this in petrobond? Wax patterns in Ultravest would be the way to go. Sprue to the back, it's easier to turn the back flat instead of working the sides and trying to keep them round. Thumbs up, but you can do better man.
Is there such a thing as Silver Bronze? Copper Silver Alloy.
Edit: lol that's what Shibuichi is xD
Haha Cheers TnT 🍺👍😎
Sterling silver is also a mix of silver and copper.
92.5% silver 7.5% copper
Thank you, for trying to hide that cig. Not cuz I gotta problem with you smoken, but cuz Im trying to quit!
Ooo thought I'd edited all that out... Sorry mate. Cheers Andy 😎🍺👍
@@MeltandCast it's Kool, mate. No worries. I havenT smoked one in a few months.
I really need to knock it on the head, I gave up for a few weeks and then my Dad died and I started again... That was 10 years ago now... 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@MeltandCast bummer, but that's how things go, sometimes.