Gold Upcycling: Turning Scrap Gold into Wedding Bands

In this video I take the exciting challenge of crafting my very own gold wedding bands. The decision to make these myself was a meaningful choice. It’s not just about the potential savings from recycling old and broken family gold but about the joy of wearing something I made. While working with gold is something new for me, my previous experience with lost wax casting came in handy. And I have to admit, gold is truly a beautiful material to work with. My setup is simple, utilizing tools I’ve made for other tasks. Moreover I think wedding bands are often crafted differently, involving the soldering of metal strips rather than employing the lost wax casting technique. Anyway, after a first failed attempt due to insufficient metal and an overly thick sprue tree, I tried again and the subsequent attempt was successful, resulting in perfectly-sized right out of the plaster. The resulting rings weigh in at 5g and respectively. After remelting the filings and sprues, a total of