NileRed - 2023-12-22
💻Thanks to Opera for sponsoring this video! Get a browser that’s literally better at everything, download Opera today: https://opr.as/12-Opera-Browser-NileRed A few years ago I stumbled onto something called purple gold and I really wanted to buy a pure purple gold ring. However, I was devastated when I found out that it didn't exist...so I decided to try and make one myself. Turning old jewelry into pure gold bars: https://youtu.be/37Kn-kIsVu8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Merch - https://nilered.tv/store ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ■ NileRed is now available on Nebula! https://go.nebula.tv/nilered (when signing up with this link, a portion of your membership directly supports the channel) Join the community: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/nilered Discord - https://discord.com/invite/3BT6UHf NileRed Newsletter - https://nile.red/home#newsletter You can also find me here: Facebook - https://m.facebook.com/NileRed2 Instagram - https://m.instagram.com/nile.red Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/NileRed2 Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA Chapters: 00:00 - What is purple gold? 00:50 - I need a purple gold ring 02:13 - How to make purple gold 04:21 - Getting a gold bar 05:16 - I need to destroy the gold 05:48 - Dissolving the gold bar 07:45 - Bringing the gold back 10:48 - Making the purple gold 42:47 - Making the ring 49:02 - Outro 52:18 - Credits Music in credits (Walker by SORRYSINES): https://soundcloud.com/sorrysines/walker
Fun fact: in the semi-conductor industry, this alloy is known as “purple plague” because it’s extremely detrimental to parts. Basically, if gold and aluminum contacts touch at high temp, some purple alloy naturally forms. This alloy is both brittle and a poor conductor, leading to electrical or mechanical failure. It was a big issue for a while, and Al and Au are some of the most common contact materials in chips. So yeah, fun facts for ya.
Edit: Wow, this blew up, haha. Glad to start some cool conversations and learning!
Very interesting thanks for sharing
one man's plague alloy is another man's shiny finger trinket
Grats, I give you 100 likes, on this, Christmas Eve.
My gold is better than NileRed’s gold
Glad someone else called it out. It's super obscure unless you're in the right industry, and then you hate it lol
One month on, Singaporean here and I just happened to stopped by Lee Hwa for some jewllery shopping. Asked the staff about purple gold and would you know it, the staff informed that this video was shared all over the company internally. Staff shared that Lee Hwa actually experienced a spike in international sales right after this video dropped, so they have Nile to thank for!
Betting on new jewelry companies to start rising up and making more polished purple gold than what's currently available. The competition begins...
You are correct. Lee Hwa's website have gone from an average of 20k viewers a month to a bit above 290k.
Thanks to Nile they most likely gonna have their best year.
THATS WILD
WHERE'S HIS CHEQUE???
This is so amazing ❤❤❤
Yeah, another future sale here
I love how the chemistry in this video isn’t complicated, it’s just Nile learning that casting metal is complex.
I'm totally down for this arc for Nile. Sometimes he doesn't need insane chemical recipes to make something exciting.
Turns out that materials science is pretty different from chemistry and just as complicated. There's a lot more to making a high performance alloy than just the right mix of elemental metals.
@@iankrasnow5383 but material science is partly chemistry. Especially when this is about alloys.
This video features a lot of manufacturing and material science, two things I did in mechanical engineering. I did very little chemistry in it
@@SURok695 Mainly engineering though
The gold and the aluminium aren't just mixed together randomly, they form a crystal structure. The color comes from the specific structure. On the surface the structure is incomplete after casting, and when you grind it, you also destroy the crystal structure, that's why it's silver in those cases. Annealing allows the atoms to rearrange into the crystal (state of lowest energy), which brings back the color
Very cool and interesting, I love reading comments and learning new stuff about things I don’t normally watch, I usually watch chemistry and science videos.
That's exactly what I was thinking actually. It looked crystallized. I couldn't really explain it though.
also, the two have different diffusion rates, and similar cubic structures. The aluminum may drift into the gold lattice faster, leaving behind a porous brittle aluminum lattice that wont settle as well without annealing, this explains the silver veins in the product. When sanded, that brittle aluminum shell is broken and smeared over the fine allloy that is stronger, which is cured by letting the strutures cool slowly. also, I read that this metal may have been discovered from electrical circuits as 'purple plague', gold and aluminum components electrolysing into purple. The name hints at the electrical inconcsistency, which reflects the inconsistent lattices of mostly aluminum and mixed 'ruined' gold--aluminide.
I might be wrong but it seemed clear to me, thinking in terms of crystal lattices and metallurgy, which isnt Nile's regular thing, but I was surprised he didn't think of that.
When sanding destroyed the pink-purple color, I suspected that it was structural coloration and not *pigmentary coloration*. It’s fairly rare in inorganic substances, but we see it all the time in living creatures: the feathers of peacocks, the shell of beetles, and so on. Spectacular in their natural state, if you grind them to powder, they are just gray,
I showed this video to my godfather who owns a large jewelry company and he told me he had tried to make this about 5 years ago and this was some of the finest work he had ever seen
My farts are better than NileRed’s farts.
you have autism@@p-__
That's interesting to hear! Do you think he would try again in the future?
@@p-__congrats? 🤨
Will he make it
Remember that aluminum immediately passivates into aluminum oxide, so all bulk "aluminum" contains surface layer of aluminum oxide. You need to use chemistry magic to add PURE aluminum to the liquid gold with no surface layer. Perhaps suspended in a liquid. Add the liquid to the crucible with bubbling argon and slowly warm up the crucible evaporating the suspended liquid. Now you have pure aluminum you can add gold to.
You're also sanding / polishing with aluminum oxide. This is why it remained silver.
Do this: mix pure aluminum with no aluminum oxide, pure Gold. Bubble some argon. Pour into a mold, and put DIRECTLY into a furnace and do not let it cool below 600C. Let it sit at 600C for 24 hours, and cool down to room temperature over the following 24 hours. Then polish with stainless steel, stone, or some non aluminum compound.
I am going to do my own work with my goldsmith friend but you have much more resources.
Finally, you say you don't knowing where the gold went... But you were sanding for 10 hours (!) multiple times (!) and you ONLY lost 5 grams?
Burn the sandpaper! Burn it, I say! (I suspect it's in the crevices)
I had exactly the same thought @Wireball
The sandpaper had increased his value with those gold between de crevices 😂
@@Wireballthis was my guess too. Fun fact: gold purifying plants burn disposable bodysuits and air filters for extra gold recovery
It can hide in places you might not expect
@@Wireball Even just completely washing it might have recovered some of those lost 5 g. :p
Even if the paper doesn't require it, using water while sanding metals makes it easier to recover them because they'll be a slurry instead of dust that can get anywhere by just blowing in the general direction...
Every time he confidently says something like “figured this would be pretty easy” I check how much time is left, and it’s usually about 40 minutes
Hmmmmm
Lmao
I would have never tried for that many of time. I would have give up already after 2 tried .
This guy is never give up material.😅
The programmer's credo: "We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy."
Lol
i know that you probably wont see this but you should make blue gold its a very good idea for a video
I would be down to watch him make all the other colors of gold. I was just looking into red gold today. There's green as well iirc.
@@StonedtotheBones13 how cool is it to watch Nile making shit up while stoned? 😂
I'm a jewellery maker, and I just watched this whole video utterly fascinated. The chemistry, the complexity of casting metal, and the artistry, all combined into an absolute thriller. When I studied jewellery making, I never got to cast gold for budget reasons, and I only know in theory how gold can be dissolved in aqua regia, and I'm just mindblown right now.
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@LOLOLOL69220 i already know you're a bot
Having studied jewelry making I kept wondering if he knew what a centrifugal caster is. That might have eliminated the last of the bubbles and cast the purple gold into the final form all in one.
@@CalophonMechanoChemistry?
this must be so satisfying for someone in the know lmao
"Im not usually into jewellery"
Nile casually making himself grillz a few months ago
My farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨
He's right tho. He's unusually into jewelry.
@@kphaxx Exactly
He’s right tho
In the grillz video, he mentioned that grillz was really the only jewellery he liked.
The beaker drop had me in shambles until I realized it was just a bamboozle
Oh no....
same lmfaoo
My heart sank when I saw that then I swore at Nile
I about had a heart attack lmao
I literally yelled out loud in anger, frustration, and sadness. But then I realized that it had to be a prank, and I am very glad that it was.
17:42 goddamnit, Nile you had $5700 to spend on gold but not enough to commission someone to draw a machine?
RIGHT? That kinda pissed me off. And the ring, too.
Like I sort of understand why your upset, but its such a tiny, miniscule part of the video. Its really not worth being upset over at all, I disagree with AI as art as much as everyone else but it really is such a nit picky thing to point out like that is all.
i am a jeweler and goldsmith apprentice and seeing you drop the beaker "full of gold" game me heart palpitations and i almost started crying in Italian
yeah i seen that and was like "oh my god WHAT?"
MAMAMIA THE GOLD
@@pohkuangda6662I literally cackled when I read this
😂😂😂
Before he dropped the beaker I was thinking "Wow it would really suck if you dropped that..."
Casual 8k CAD beaker
Whats crazy is you've advanced a field. no one makes cast purple gold jewelry because of the complications. You are now one of the best in the world at that specific task and made it look like a college students term project.
To be fair bro has a 6 figure laboratory
@@Devblivion 🤣 You're not wrong
Purple gold is ugly but...
He's a chemist doing material science lol
@@Devblivion That certainly helps in figuring out the correct process. But the actual gear you really need doesn't seem that expensive.
I mean, you need the beaker and the acids to pulverize your gold (and that seems to be optional, you can use other methodes) - you need some way to melt the gold, the argon-setup and a way to get your molds.
I think some mid 4 figures of gear and material (excluding the gold) to start you off.
I'm from Singapore and i grew up seeing Lee Hwa's purple gold ads and shop displays. I didnt know the purple gold was legitimate gold! My husband also thought there was a coating of purple substance, not actual gold. This is so interesting. Good job Nile on replicating it so perfectly.
I would have just used 24k casting grain like most sane jewelers would do.
Purple Gold was found and patented by a Professor in Singapore. Then Lee Hwa Jewellery brought the formula rights, and then make it Gold Heart’s exclusive. I used to work with Lee Hwa Jewellery, therefore, it’s part of the training.
spraying the gold purple and lacquering it would be a damn sight easier.
I was in Singapore back in 07 for some courses through the company I was working for. I remembered walking past some jewellry stores and they had purple gold jewellry for sale. As I had previously worked in a gold refinerary doing the Aqua Regia making 99.999% or Five Nines (sometimes higher) I was curious as to the process of making the purple gold. The sales team couldn't tell me the exact process but there had been a patent taken out on it.
well it's not actual gold, it an ally of about 80% gold and aluminium. Like the other gold ally with silver, or copper, that the jewelers sell as "gold".
Makes a stunning bar of purple gold - instantly calls it hideous.
38:19 I’m a student at a goldsmithing school. One of the first things we learn when working with gold is that it’s basically impossible to not lose any, especially when sanding and filing. You spent 10 hours sanding a bar of it. Some of that gold turns into dust that gets carried away in air, some of it sticks to the paper. Only losing 5 grams is actually quite impressive considering how much you worked with it. When we do cost estimates, we typically factor in a 15% loss when smelting and remaking something.
goldsmithing school? wow school has never sounded this fun…
Yes… but you recover a lot once you make reduction of chains or rings… size
O mundo quebraria se toda vez que derretesse ouro perdessem 15% dele
In Gold refineries, we harvest the gold dust in the air. No spec escapes. There are hoods and ductwork to capture at source. & if there are any in the air, there are scrubbers as well as dust collectors installed. When he said the gold was declared 999,9 purity when he bought it & that he possibly purified it further, he was wrong. No refinery ever says gold is 100% pure. The purest gold that has been reached is 6 nines. But as of today, the Royal Canadian Mint produces 999.99% (five nines).
The part with the Aqua Regia is exactly how George de Hevesy hid 2 Nobel Prize medals during WWII. To the soldiers who looked around his lab for valuable things, it just looked like a beaker of orange chemicals. After the war, he precipitated the gold back out and the Nobel Committee recast the medals from that gold.
Dude, that is amazing! Thanks for sharing!
didn't know this story. so cool
I knew that story from wayyyyy back in chemistry lab when we were playing with strong mineral acids.
Science wins again! Love it.
This is an amazing story. I think this would have been cool to hear in the video.
This is legitimately some stuff that may have never been recorded on camera let alone documented in this way. Fantastic work, NileRed. You should be very proud of this one.
May even help future companies that want to try and make this stuff. This video was very impressive.
I never knew elixir was real irl
He's the local chem wizard of YT. This is what youtube was made for. 💙
From now on jeweleries from all over the world trying to make purple gold will look at this video the same way we look at those extremely detailed answers from 2007 forums for ridiculously niche questions
My mom is a baby
My man just casually making one of the most unique and still traditionally desirable/valuable jewellery items in the world for funsies on youtube.
Can we just appreciate the fact that this guy took an arcane process only known to a few specialists and made an entire YT step-by-step that everyone can now see.
Congratulations, man!
Lee Hwa's not going to be happy 😂
"Purple gold is super difficult to work with" meanwhile he's making a whole ring of this stuff.
@@SkyEcho751lee hwa probably trying to scare away the competition
@@yanuk818They’re gonna be very exited. Millions of people now know that purple gold jewelry exists.
Lee Hwa Jewellery may be putting a hit out on him.
Nile: "I have no idea where all the gold went!"
Also Nile: sanding, grinding, hammering
💀
It's hilarious watching how Nile's knowledge base is kinda a mile deep, and an inch wide :D
My farts are better than NileRed’s farts
He said in the video that he collected all the dust and dissolved it with the rest.
Smashing some chunks through the lab 😂
Dude this is huge. You just provided a production process to small independent jewelers all over the internet for a really cool thing that the greater jewelry industry has dismissed as unprofitable. I have several ideas for how to improve your processes, based on my own past jewelsmithing experience as a hobby, and once I get my garage workshop set up, I can definitely see myself making some purple gold jewelry. Big thanks for sharing the info!
I hope you realize I'm subscribing to your channel and waiting patiently for you to join some of the few souls who've been willing to try their hands at AgAl alloy jewelry-ing! Here's wishing you good luck and god's speed on getting that garage workshop set up! I believe in you!
Good luck. Would love to see results
Rad. Artisans at work. Best of luck.
Except for one thing; the patent. It’s one thing to make small samples for personal use (like NileRed did here), but if you try to use this and sell the results, you’re going to have a lawsuit on your hands, or at least angry lawyers showing up with cease-and-desist orders. 😢
Tell us what you figure out. I'm not a jewelsmith but I love seeing people talk about things they love
Absolutely fantastic! Such a beautiful ring, I'm so impressed with your finished result and patience!! Loved watching this ☺️👏👏👏👏
Love way you introduce the metals. Like, “here is my 5000 dollar bar of 24k gold, i considered smashing it, here’s me throwing it on the ground. Im going to disolve it now..” and then “i bought this aluminum off ebay, here is me showcasing it on the table, im not going to do anything to it it’s staying like this.”
I enjoyed that too. Also, good to see I'm not the only one it pushed this video to this week.
Right before he redissolved it again for the first time I thought "Wow he spent 5 grand and now it all looks like a bunch of grey junk". For some reason the thought didn't occur to me that you could just put it back in the aqua regia.
It's absolutely fascinating that you ALWAYS include processes that went wrong or produced unexpected results. It makes me appreciate the hard work, time, and patience that you put into all of your projects even more.
I appreciate that he shows this because as anyone who’s taken a chem course can attest to, experiments never go how they’re planned so it’s nice to see that that’s not just a problem at the student level
Honestly that's by far the best part of his videos, the problem solving. If it was just a step by step on how to do chemistry it would be like reading a recipe, it isn't exciting. But finding roadblocks and manouvering around them with relatively limited equipment is a testament to ingenuity, creativity, and the indomitable will of human beings.
The failures are sometimes the funniest parts. It was fun seeing him make the cherry soda from the paint thinner, but it would not have been the same experience without including the mistake where he accidentally tear gassed himself.
My farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨
@@p-__me too💭😫
2:06 “But for some reason, I really felt that I can do it”
50 minutes remaining
Nile, you’ve done it again
I felt this in my adhd
This guy could get any freakin job he wanted and he's a chemist on YouTube
Wth I didn't even know that I just finished a 50min video until I read this comment...
12:15
Nile: Go into the red-hot gold!
Aluminum: NO!!!
7:50 As soon as the gold was completely dissolved, I thought to myself, man, the worst thing that could happen is if he spilled this beaker of $5,700 orange soda. I basically yelled out loud when I saw it slip.
dude, this exactly hahahaha i flipped out
I pictured dropping or spilling it as well! It definitely put me on edge haha.
He did the same thing with bromine lol
I was expecting the prank. Still gave me a heart attack
That was such an easy joke, considering he already did it once)
The loss of Gold was almost certainly connected to the Sanding portion of your working with it. You likely have a significant amount that is still in the matrix of the sandpaper you used, and there is also a loss of gold in dust form through air movement. I would suggest using a wet sanding method in a container or water where the gold dust will be collected in the water of the container. I also saw when you hammered earlier pieces of purple gold, small pieces flew off due to the brittle nature of the metal. and because gold is so heavy it doesn't take much gold loss to amount to 5 grams. but it is still a lot of gold to lose. so, if and when you decide to work with gold alloys again, make sure you are using a vacuum with a filter that can collect the gold dust or better yet just sand the gold inside of a water filled container to that all of the abraded gold can be kept from being lost. Also not go hammering any of those pieces anymore because metal does form into crystals when freezing and if it is brittle like the purple gold, you made hammering it will cause the crystals to break apart and some of them will shatter. to get an idea of how to keep all of your gold in a form that will minimize loss you should watch Sreetips and his gold refining videos, but it does little to show how to keep your dust to a minimum. Work your gold in a different medium than air, work it in water, or rather sand it in water. Your Dremel can be hooked up to a flex shaft and you can do your shaping of the gold in water as well. this will prevent loss but may not stop it all. when working with precious metals, jewelers have to accept a certain amount of loss, and this loss is figured into the price of the Jewelry being made. Sure, jewelers collect as much dust and granules of the precious metals they work with but it can never be truly all accounted for This is just the nature of the world we live in.
Yeah it's absolutely hilarious that he says he has no idea how he lost it! The whole video long he's smashing stuff and pieces are flying off, tons of it going into the sandpaper, random blobs splashing out of the crucible, ...
I was watching the sanding.. I agree.. he was also pretty aggressive.. plus the dremel tool .. that’s a lot of loss .. but makes sense
Liked the comment so that Nile sees this.
My suspicion was it went into dust form and just kind of permeated his environment. But likely a good floor sweeping, plus brushing his clothes, and recovering metal from the sandpaper, would help.
My farts are better than NileRed’s farts
Same thoughts here.
I feel like this man single-handedly expanded the purple gold community from almost nothing to something in the eyes of the people
frrr
A hundred percent
Smart marketing 👀😅
He just filled the entire Wikipedia page single handedly,
The patent US6929776B1 looks to have expired in 2020. Maybe there will be more purple gold jewelry coming around using this method.
So you just mix 81% pure gold with 19% pure aluminium, melt them together, mix them together, blow in argon to remove any hydrogen bubbles, pour it out, sand it, anneal it, and wear it?
N i c e .
Former ultra-high purity metals foundryman here. There is a common misconception that gold does not evaporate and that there is no loss during heating and casting. We unfortunately learned the hard way that you do lose some gold any time you heat and cast it. Not to mention when you process, sand, and polish it. It's a very small amount per process, but it adds up over time. I would also suggest trying high-purity nitrogen instead of argon. The only way that I know of to (almost) completely eliminate any chance of voids, is to cast in a vacuum.
I was also thinking of the vacuum casting method.
@@davidsymalla me too!
Same
Also, is breathing gold vapor safe?
@@PrestonSartinI would expect it is, because gold is very poorly reactive, especially with biological matter
This has to be one of the most well deserved patents. Not only figuring out how to make purple gold but refining the process so it can be strong and once it’s set into a shape then annealed into the crystal structure that gives it the purple colour. It must be near impossible to rediscover this without a deep, deep understanding of metallurgy.
Plus: Stuff disclosed actually works as described. Not all heroes wear capes, some sell jewelry.
He probably payed a lot of money for the patent
Metallurgy is freaking magic. I have an insane amount of respect for the researchers, engineers, and artisans that have put in the time and effort to understanding it. Every time I look at a phase diagram, I am reminded that there are some real geniuses out there.
Imagine making this stuff 1000 or so years ago. You'd be some kind of wizard/witch!
@@CrimsonA1 given the technology back then and the challenges involved I'd agree with the town folks ;)
Aluminum die caster here. We have graphite tubes with hundreds of little holes in them. Think like a fish tank bubbler rock. The sole purpose is to degass our molten aluminum with argon! It was fun to watch you figure this out on your own. It took the casting industry about 50 years to do it!!!
Edit: we also put negative draft on all of our molds. I think you now know why!!! We have very expensive mold design and testing software that I would be happy to use to help you if you want to make another mold. Just let me know!
I hope he sees this and tries this once more.
Agreed
Uninterested in getting some of those tubes.
I wonder if the tubes are like fritted glass which makes mucho bubbles
its pretty cool to see two different sources, both professional and personal "hobby" project arrive at the same solution for a problem like this.
I used to work for a company that produces industrial compressors and vacuums like the ones installed in hospitals for their pneumatic equipment (think the tube a dentists uses to pull excess water and saliva from your mouth while they do cleanings an such.) we always installed "brass sponge" mufflers on our units for all of the exhaust and drain pipes. The brass sponge fittings also have tons of holes but I guess wouldn't work under such high heats. However I have seen them used alternatively as percolators for fume filters an such
50:09
is it possible when you were sanding / grinding, some of the gold went with it?
A man approaches you, he smells of Raspberry perfume and hes wielding a Bismuth knife. His finger is adorned with a rare purple gold ring. Intoxicated by his homemade toilet paper moonshine, he smiles at you exposing custom gold grillz.
What do you do?
Fucking RUN
Ask for an autograph and a picture
Marriage, immediately.
Accept his offer to go back to the magical alchemy dungeon and trade my services for teachings in production of psychedelics.
Hopefully he proposes with my own set of pinkish purple gold grillz.
End up having a Las Vegas drive thru wedding while cross faded on toilet paper moonshine and toxic frog.
Fast forward to the end of the night taking an explosive bath together watching the city burn from the window….
Is this comment AI generated? Just wondering.
The missing gold is likely from the sanding and polishing. Even if you got all the fine dust that piled up, there was still probably some left on the sandpaper, especially with the finer grains.
My farts are more purple than NileRed’s farts 💨
And casting. Some of the gold stuck to the crucible, unless Nile managed to get it out.
I agree atleast 95 percent of that 3 lost after the initial 1 percent lost from the 99.9 was from the sanding, the rest could have been some percent from the none gold or lost from the beaker.
I absolutely agree. I even said the same thing. I couldn't believe he couldn't catch that. It's almost shocking someone's so smart could not catch the fact that he was just picking up the fine particles
I came here to say that most was likely lost due to loading (getting stuck) in the sandpaper.
I love the premise of Nile coming into the jeweler space with his chemist perspective and finding a more convenient way to work with a difficult alloy.
Worked better than when he tried to do the same with cookies.
He should patent his adaptations to the process.
He should team up with a youtuber that focuses more on metals like CodysLab or a materials scientist like Alpha Phoenix.
2:20 "i really want to make purple gold but i don't know how to do it please give me information i am willing to accept anything" 💀
I worked in a Aluminum foundry. For degassing the metal the graphite rod had to be spinning with teeth at end to "chop up" the argon to grab more hydrogen. We also added strontium (less than 2%) to make the parts stronger
Woah what’s this about strontium? Lol
This is such a genuinely cool and insightful comment. It's so cool that you were able to bring experience from your work life into this neat purple gold video!
hope nile sees this
O hello fellow foundry man. I am currently studying to work in a foundry
@@fromthefire4176yeah would love a follow up on that Strontium business.
I come from a family of Jewelers with an over 50 year history of being in the business. Purple gold is not the only interesting color you can find the alloy in. In the early 2000s Green Gold suddenly became very popular for a brief time. Rose gold has been very common place for a long time as has white gold. The most striking color of it in my opinion is an alloy of either gallium or indium. It looks kind of like Cobalt. When I heard you wanted to break that bar down with a hammer my heart skipped a beat. Gold is incredibly mailable, the purer the bar the soft it is. You can also get a Jewelry Workers Kit for very cheap and it should have all the tools you need except for the for maybe the Manual Rolling Mill Machine.
my farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨
@@p-__ he can chemically synthesize farts (video idea)
Do you have any more tips? I want to handcraft a set of rings by hammering, primarily for the look of a hammered surface.
I plan for them to be durable, reworkable, and entirely made of precious metals and/or their alloys.
I might make a piece for a necklace later on, idk
Amateur jeweler here, played with alloys of gold back in the early 2000s. You can also get various shades of pink. Purple is fun, maybe Nile will start a trend.
Tempting to go back to jewelry. So much you can do with semi precious stones and metals.😊
Wow that sounds so cool! Can I intern for you guys lol 😂
Oh my god, nilered. Having been a hobbyist Goldsmith for nearly 6 years, I have never even known about having a metal be coloured like this. The closest unusual colors I could work with were blue titanium, chrome/soapy titanium, pink or green gold (which is an even bigger pain to work with than this), but this, this is so amazing to see. I love how your chemistry path has somehow crossed into what is my passion in a way that inspires me further.
One of the main appeals of gold is the gold 'colour'.
@@kirkc9643 bet. That's why brass, bronze and Nordic gold (variant of bronze) are also so very popular for people to work with, or wear. (Note, coat the brass with something like hairspray so it doesn't oxidize on your fingers).
Wayyy
I am, for the first time in my over 50 years, looking to buy some gold. Just to have it in my hands for the first time. And, as I understand it, it's not a bad investment! It generally doesn't lose value. LOL
Back story, when I lived in S Florida, I used to dive, but more often just metal detected the beaches. I accumulated a pill bottle of 'scrap' gold. I really wanted to learn how to purify it. But then I had a roommate that allowed a friend of his to stay on the couch. In short, this person had a drug problem. The rest is obvious. My gold, my Sig P226, my coin collection, much of witch was given to me by my father. All gone. I still push it outta my head when I think back on it.
I've considered buying leaf, cuz it't the best, but the geek in me is fascinated by the pure raw material as a sample.
Any advice is welcome, and many thanks in advance.
@friskfromutoh I'd love to see that too
the most impressive part about this video is nile's humongous acquisitional power, "so anyway i bought this and that" so casually lololol, he does this in multiple videos too hahahaha
Never in my life have I made it through 53 minutes of chemistry, but this channel is gold… pure purple gold
Wait til you see him turn gloves into grape soda
Ummmmmmhhh actshually pure purple gold doesnt exist since its alloy🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
@@ACookie3994 no ur wrong. A pure purple RING is not real due to the fragility of purple gold. Pure purple gold is, in fact, real.
Hello, metalsmith and jeweler here! This process looked BRUTAL, especially as someone who consistently works with metal to shape it into something new. You did a fantastic job, though, and your resilience is insane!
How would you have done this?
When he said "This wasn't as bad as I thought it would be" ... my first thought was "you've got more patience than I do buddy"
@@takumi2023 honestly probably no other way to do it, with metals you usually are able to plastically shape it, but this thing can't even be bent😅 closer to working with a stone than to metal
@@RENO_K Not all metals are malleable or ductile, including a lot of steel alloys. They can only be shaped by grinding and cutting. You can't reshape knife steel after it's been quenched for instance. For some brittle metals with a super high melting point, like tungsten, you can't even really cast them- any material you would use as a mold would melt too. Tungsten is actually formed by sintering. Metal powder is put in a mold or built up in layers and each one is melted or heated to near its melting point with a laser and then it fuses to a single piece. But this limits the applications for the metal since it will have very small, jagged crystal structure and be brittle.
I took jewelry in high-school. We used a wax reverse casting. And then we measured out the metal we need in a crucible. We then had a sort of centrifuge arm that held the cast and crucible and would spin around forcing the liquid metal inside.
Sadly I don't know how to do that without a whole chamber filled with Argonne to for the purple gold.
I like that you don't just act like you researched and got it right first try. Showing your trials and errors along the way, and bringing us all on the journey with you is what makes this channel truly special.
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probably the reason that around 5 grams of gold were lost the second time is the sanding! That might not make up all of it, but you can see on the sand paper smudges left behind. sand paper gets less and less useable because stuff gets trapped in it, which also means your loosing the stuff. I have yet to find a way to clean sandpaper without ruining it unfortunately, so collecting whats lost is probably impossible, or at least not worth it.
Hi, was a jeweler when I was teen, and we'd sell used polishing pads to larger jewlers since lots of the gold we'd polish would microscopically end up there. So I'm sure the sandpaper and whatever you used to polish has some gold in it. So I wouldn't throw away any sandpaper or pads you used to polish if you wanna salvage some gold, cause it adds up quickly
This is gonna be it, plus the stuff that sticks to the crucibles
Thats probably where he lost the 4.9 grams
I thought this too, as sanding is removing material. He didn’t show what happened to the sand paper, but did show multiple new sheets across all the attempts. 5g isn’t all that much, so it’s possible it got sanded away, dremeled, and polished away. Recovering the gold from those would interesting to see, though I imagine it would be time consuming.
@@BenjaminSeuser It actually wouldn't be all that hard but yeah time consuming. The good part is he has that part down already. Reduce the sandpaper to ash, Run the acid extract. Filter any trash out then pull the gold from the acid. I was going to use a method similar when I was extracting gold from pc components. ROM Chips using micro gold wire inside of them and incineration was the best method i found to get that out.
This would also explain why it would turn silver when he sanded it that's for sure where the gold went
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