Anyone here ever make jewelry or something with molten copper...

Most make their template out of wax, it burns off easily.

Interdasting. But I mean I’d be using the outer shell of pennies or scrap plumbing copper, so I would need to at least melt it to get it to a workable shape and thickness

Plus copper stinks,it smells like old pennies...and salty milk...

Investment plaster?

2000°C - OMG
How do you heat up something to 2000°C?
This sounds impossible for me.

A backyard wood bonfire gets about that hot

i would melt it, cast it in a simple square mold and then hammer/roll it into shape, seems like a lot of work though, n yeah copper doesnt make great jewelry

It worked out for literally every ancient culture throughout all of humanity

There are fuck loads of YouTube videos on this shit, why ask these cunts you absolute retard

lost foam casing is your best bet

imgur.com/OzF6Gk2

oh yeah man, but its harder than you think. tin and pewter is something you can do in your kitchen super easy, copper is not. in sure you are aware of mold max 60. copper molds are much harder to make, usually you gotta use a plaster or high temp clay. both are pains in the ass because if any moisture is trapped and you don't have your vents correct, it turns into steam and blasts right out your pour gate. it ruins the cast and probably your hands a it too.

What I ended up doing is a medieval style soap stone mold just for fun and doing a few open face molds for a utzi ice man axe project. that worked ok, but its not what I would call easy.

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Wow no shit. That’s cool. Is this a hobby Worth bothering with?

no. you need almost pure carbon coke with forced blown air in a well build refective furance to get that hot. obviously possibvle to do with hand tools and no machinery, but its not as easy as lightly a pile of wood on fire.

also, 2000f will melt for copper. 2000c is 3632f. thats insane, that will melt like stainless steal and all kinds of super hard alloys.

Copper stains your skin green. Why would you want to make jewelry out of it?

tin is super fun and pretty easy. all the skills to make tin molds can be learned with resin. your first molds will 100% suck no matter what you do so saving some cash and having safer meduims with resin stuff is a very good idea. I'd do that anyway, just to understand how molds go together, even if you want to skip up to more obscure mold types. a few bottles of smooth on will cost ya like 50 bucks, but a block of soap stone will take HOURS of work to get to function even like 60-80% well for one cast.

youtube is full of tutorials and the exact type of silicone will be depend on what you make, google will prettyy much answer those questions.

clean your jewelry. oxides stain your skin, and oxides can be removed very easily.

Cool. Thanks user.

most ametures order graphite molds and polish it from there
blacksmiths may actually just heat up and bendbthe metal, but copper work-hardens like a bitch under mechanical stresses if it's not hot enough

OP you're talking about casting metal. copper is soft and easily workable so you don't need to cast

get a copper disc about the size of a quarter and use this method:

youtube.com/watch?v=548qCuDHe_Q

OP, look up BigStackD on youtube, he melts doen all sorts of shot for his metal collection (lots of ingots and coins, plus his pug is named Ingot)

That looks like an anomaly

Mac Nugget ?