Making a Golden (aluminum-bronze) Egyptian Falcon Necklace - part 1
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- In this video, Fox attempts to make a replica of a falcon necklace from the treasures of Tutankhamun!
This video will be in two parts, because of delays with shipments of supplies!
The necklace in question is one of the thousands of pieces of jewelry found in king Tut's tomb when it was discovered by Howard Carter, in 1922. There are many crappy replicas out there, and a few rare very good ones. Hopefully we will be adding to the list of 'good ones' with this! 😉
The second part can be found here:
'Egyptian Falcon Necklace - part 2'
• Egyptian Falcon Neckla...
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Great work. Love this alloy that looks like gold, is fairly cheap but does not tarnish. Amazing.
This is really cool, I'm glad UA-cam recommended it😀
Can't wait for Part 2!
I love this project! And all things Egyptian, of course. If I ever get into making jewelry, this is the kind of stuff I would want to make.
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An office I worked at as a dental assistant a number of years ago had a patient who requested the hygienists save their old instruments for him to have--I think for some sort of model making he did, I don't remember. What you were using didn't look quite like a dental instrument I was familiar with, but I guess when you get down to it, something for working clay and something for working with teeth wouldn't be all too entirely different! So interesting watching this come together--it's already beautiful. And I think the role of cat approval is grossly underappreciated:-D
Some clay tools do look a lot like dental tools, yes; and I actually have some retired dental tools that I use too! 😊
Can't wait for part 2
ua-cam.com/video/8A3TgOdkLFk/v-deo.html 😊
This is very exciting! I am looking forward for the second part. Ash approval is absolutely necessary! 😂❤
The part where you melt the metal is for me the scariest. I don't know if I would be able to do it. But you seem comfortable with it. Beautiful job so far!
Roberta
Thanks! It can be scary! You've got to keep focused, and respect the dangerous stuff, so accidents don't happen. After you do it for a while, you get comfortable with it, like with any other dangerous activity, such as driving, or... lion-taming. 😉
Eagerly awaiting part 2. Lovely Ash. I think I'll go listen to him purr for a minute or six. He is such a chilled creature. Guaranteed to lower one's blood pressure in a most pleasant way. I wonder if this piece was part of a traveling exhibit of King Tut treasures that came to my home town many, many years ago. I was able to get a ticket to see the exhibit. Was fantastic and especially interesting to me as old bones and stones were what I studied in college.
Ash is the most chill cat ever. 🐱
I don't know if this piece specifically was part of the exhibit all those years ago, I didn't get to see it, but I know The Met made a big deal of it and made some of the GOOD replicas back in 1976.
The original was on a recent exhibit that I think is still going around the world ("Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh").
Another super video. Loved it! Just a gentle reminder that you also make great videos using your lathe.....and I'm still waiting for a new one to be released!
Thanks! I have three or four projects lined up for the lathe, just haven't got around doing them. I blame the cellos! Too many cellos to work on! 😉
Casting the same metal twice, and they turned out so differently! Luck really matters.
Luck plays a role, yes! But something I forgot to mention in the video is that I changed the technique on that last pour. 😉
On the first mold, the sprue went straight into the cavity for the pendant; it failed because simply there wasn't enough silver to fill it all. On the second one, I did it the 'correct way' and put runners and risers and all those fancy metal-casting things. But since that failed, I figured I was asking too much of a metal that does not like to flow into tight spaces, so I changed back to putting the sprue straight into the mold, and that worked! 😁
Very nice.
Wow!!
Would it ever be possible for you to show us how you craft your violins in details?
I really wish to learn how to do so and there aren't any luthiers around here I could learn from (which happens to be Egypt, coincidence lol?)
The reason I haven't made a "making a violin" video yet is because it's an extremely involved process that takes me about 3 months of on-and-off work, and setting up the cameras and all that for recording gets in the way, but also it would have to be either a series of videos or one huge long video, because each step in violin-making could have its own video dedicated to it.
And ultimately, there are already some really good violin-making videos by some incredibly good makers out there.
My suggestion, if you want to learn, would be to start first becoming intimately familiar with violins; there's a lot of material you can use for research, and maestronet.com/ is a place that helped me a huge deal when I was first starting without a luthier to learn from in person too. 😊
There's also www.makingtheviolin.com/ where you will find pretty much step-by-step instructions, but it assumes you already have familiarity with woodwork and woodworking tools.
I don't think I am at a level yet where I can be teaching people to make violins. I have restored and repaired hundreds, but I've only made 4 1/2 (the 5th one was started last October, but I haven't had time to work on it), but I am willing to share the knowledge I have, so if you have questions, feel free to ask!
@@SculptyWorks I see! And yeah when you feel like you're qualified and ready enough to share the knowledge. definitely a video on each topic in a playlist would be a really good idea!
And thanks A LOT for the websites you sent
And oh can you please reference me some of those violin-making videos? Also can I ask how you got into violin-making? It'd be really interesting to hear about that
And as always keep the great work and good luck with everything! Really appreciate it!
@@nerdcartoon2544 Getting into violin-making and stringed instruments works kinda just happened! I chat some about it on the very long livestream I did for a violin giveaway we had ua-cam.com/video/QW5vuXqHQ8E/v-deo.html but basically it amounted to my love for violins and my love for making things coming together. 😉
One of the most beautiful videos on a violin being made is at ua-cam.com/video/YO5KMZfyKBc/v-deo.html but check it out quickly, I have seen it taken down multiple times before because that's a repost from someplace else so UA-cam copyright policies every now and then find it and take it down.
Then anything by Davide Sora, he's one truly masterful craftsman ua-cam.com/channels/ggqGrdYUEovaC9UKnSMD3g.html
And this one, I don't recommend you follow what this guy does, because he uses a lot of unconventional techniques and the wrong type of glue and varnish, but it's good to show that you don't need years of training to get something violin-shaped started ua-cam.com/video/rj5i3H8cQOo/v-deo.html
I don't know how available violins are there in Egypt, whenever I tell my friends there that I'm a luthier, they're like "a -what-?" 😉
But if you can, to get started, I would suggest getting some old crappy instruments that nobody would lament the loss of, and take them apart, or if they are broken, try to put them back together following restoration methods luthiers use; it's a great way to get a feel for the stuff you will be working with. Then, ideally, get a hold of a good violin, or visit a place that has good violins that you can see up-close. If you can't do that in person, the Tarisio Cozio Archive is an amazing source of images of the word's greatest violins tarisio.com/cozio-archive/ and after staring at those for a while you can tell the difference between a Stradivarius and a Del Gesu simply by the shape of the f-holes. 😁
@@SculptyWorksOh the violin making video, is truly amazing I've rewatched it countless times and it's what originally got me interested in the idea of making a violin as well as that video ua-cam.com/video/xejx48lZVhQ/v-deo.html
And the "Homemade Violin | DIY Guide", the violin is a bit sacrilegious lol but I'm sure it will sound better than those Chinese factory-made VSOs
Which are what's mostly available here in Egypt, there's only one single luthier that I'm aware of and he's living in the capital, so sadly no way I could ever go be his apprentice
And yeah most people don't know about violin making here because the tradition died almost a century ago
Even finding actual violins made by professional luthiers(that are playable and sold in instruments shops) is not easy mainly because the majority of people can't afford them thus there isn't any demand
But I could try restoring violins, I've actually found really old instruments(probably were their grandparents' instruments) sold here that need repairs and would be playable and hopefully will sound and play a lot better than my current violin which is another VSO
"My phone updated and disabled my alarms"
Phone be like: I'm sorry, was there something important?
But anyhow, I like to say. Ouch!
So in other words, you made your own.
Aluminium?
For the British! 😉
In Spanish, we say aluminio. And the pronunciation is actually pretty similar