Crafty types use Scorifiers, especially workers in gold/silver/pt Options

[gold_tutor]

In this next short series of posts is my attempt to illustrate how a scorifier dish is useful to craftytypes who are working with Jewelry and Gold wire wrap, silver, jewelry repair entrepreneurs, etc.

For example, I am able to make 24K 'gold shot' such as you see here below:

It's what I do with some of the shot afterwards that I thought might give you all some ideas.

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[gold_tutor]

...choose a few and place in scorifier dish...sitting upon a firebrick or fiberglass pad

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[gold_tutor]

TORCH ON B)

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[gold_tutor]

I hardly think there is any color more beautiful than that brilliant color change just before gold goes molten an you can see the mols zip around on the surface like some kind of firebugs...

then fwap...the edges blur and a piece of free-form art pops up in your scorifier dish, appropriately sloped sides so that it flows in toward the center, making a very 3 dimensional 24K gold decoration, right front of your eyes. In fact, if you blink, you might miss the melding into your new piece of one-of-a-kind art.

Add a "rabbit ears bail" from your favorite findings supplier, and Voila...you have a pendant like no other in the world for your customers or your investors or your favorite squeeze.

Every guy/gal, likes to be unique with their personal adorement in gold. Free-form with gold shot and a torch is just one of a jillion ideas out there, ya'll

Will this be an earring? A watch fob? A pinkie ring mounting? A neck chain pendant?
Want it bigger, add more gold shot and repeat.

One thing it is NOT...
....a miniaturized cowpie

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[gold_tutor]

Add some silver shot to the gold shot, get some rose gold shot, and some green gold shot---
make a landscape
......a mars'scape
.........a moonscape
...or jis give Black Hills Gold jewelers a run for their money. :D Sky's the limit.

Here's another use for the scorifier dish...soldering

I make my own flat solder stock...
I've got a roller mill, which makes it easy.

And it's cheaper than buying drawn wire from a refiner who gets to charge extra for his fabrication skillset.

You also can hand hammer gold into thin solder slivers.

These little slivers,
plus some goldshot for custom making doodads,
plus some handmade solder slivers (gold and silver ones) for flea market/craft show repair boothe,
.....this makes your jewelery fab design biz., jewelery chain repair biz, or whatever, extremely portable.
Toss in a $10 Harbor Freight refillable 2300F torch and you are in BIZ!

As Palladin usta sayback in the 50s western shoot-em ups:
"Have Scorifier, WILL TRAVEL!!!!!!"

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[Denise]

Great ideas Megan! B)
I'm just a little afraid to take a torch to gold. How do you know when you have melted it enough?
I would love to incorporate that idea with gold into some of my art work.

Thanks for the pics...A visual always helps to understand a little better when you cant just learn hands on. :D

[gold_tutor]

You know you have melted it enough when it starts to "flow." It won't burn and get sticky like eggs or taters... :)

I've tried to describe the absolutely molten white it gets, almost translucent just before it rolls due to the concave shape of the scorifier dish...it truly does look like little molecules are zipping around on the surface of the gold at that gold temp.

Now, of course,
if you are using an alloy instead of 24K,
you will bring the impurities to the surface with the torch heating,
due to their lower melt temps. It is also called firescale if memory serves.
It will give a nugget the most gosh awful motled look, like a sickly nugget, or worse yet, like an imitation brass nugget.

Then you have to learn to "flame polish it."

If ole Dan will let you have some of his goobers to practice with, then you can learn by doing. Tell him I sent ya.

Thanks for your question!