Maria Langer | 📝🛥️💎I really need to stress what an incredible learning tool #YouTube can be. If you recall, I have a new interest in #sandcasting to make #jewelry. Because silver is so expensive and because I have a lot of scrap copper and silver, I've decided I want to cast pieces in #Shibuichi, a Japanese alloy of 75% copper +25% silver. (Or 80%/20%, depending on your source.) That means measuring out my scrap metal properly and melting it down together. (1/3)
Because I suspected there might be more to it than simply combining the metals in a crucible and melting them down with a torch, I did a search on #YouTube for #Shibuichi. I found a bunch of videos, but two of them were especially good.
One was short and focused on water casting an ingot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ_6C0Cmq_E&feature=youtu.be
The other was very long but provided a great deal of technical info before casting into a bar. https://youtu.be/5Qi-zCtLycw (first half) (2/3)
