CAN YOU FORGE PLATINUM???

welcome back today i want to find out if i can forge this 5 000 bar of platinum as you might know in the workshop i'm working on transforming this 10 pen into a 10 000 pen and i want to make one of the components out of this oh it's weighty it's got a lot of weight to it for its size smells like plastic very hard let's see if i can dent it with a knife yeah i can it's definitely not as soft as gold let's see what happens when we hammer it cold well it definitely feels softer than steel that's for sure hammering cold isn't making a lot of progress though the intent of this video is to forge the platinum and i want to make at least the clip from platinum so let's get it hot and hopefully not make a five thousand dollar puddle now this could be a very expensive mistake so thank goodness we've got sponsors like red shadow legends it is the game's two-year anniversary it's two years old and what started off as just some cool character art and an idea has now taken the world by storm is the 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clean and polished up and if i actually want to make something worth any money out of this platinum it certainly can't have any steel particles in it get rid of all this stuff i want to clean any scale off of this area in case i drop it on the ground for when i drop it on the ground we're gonna put a brick in the fire too so it's hopefully a cleaner surface upon which to lay the platinum it is now go time are you kidding me i've already dropped it but when i drop it on the ground okay now it's good oh it's blisteringly hot ah it's sticky it's stuck to my tongue it's so shiny it's also ridiculously sticky okay back in the fire ah no i dropped it in the fire and it's hot cooling down so fast oh my goodness it's so sticky i can't move it around the anvil it is impossible okay it's not impossible but every time i'm trying to manipulate it like i would a little bar of steel a bar of steel you just slide along the anvil here i can't it is so sticky i wonder what the royal mint would say about their ingot now looking like this no that's not good it looks like there's a crack forming or is it made up maybe it isn't a crack forming i got the impression there was a crack forming right there i don't know more upsetting that's what we're doing i'm trying to shorten out this material so that we can get a thicker section of bar to work with so i'm hitting it from end it means we've got to do a lot of straightening as we go as you see we are successfully moving it it's relatively soft and it cools down very fast [Music] so it's been a great material to work with it's a lot tougher than gold but it's still a lot softer than steel the next step is i need to get this thin down to seven millimeters and round it out so that we can stick it in the lathe to turn down a clicker [Music] [Music] i didn't even catch it i made the clicker it's on to the clip and these are all the shavings we've accumulated so far [Music] and one two and the metal is cold one and it's cold again [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] bye so we found out platinum is jolly good fun to forge we've got the clip rough shaped it's ready for finishing we're turning one of these ten dollar pens into a ten thousand dollar pen i'd love for you to watch part one of the series where we make some beautiful twisted damascus i'd love you to subscribe and turn your notifications on so that you can see us finish this project out and hopefully make something exquisite or make very expensive mistakes it's been a pleasure thank you to raid for having sponsored this episode and helping me not go bankrupt see you all soon bye [Music] you

Channel: Alec Steele

Views: 738,473

Keywords: alec, alec steele, alex steele, anvil, art, axe, blacksmith, blacksmithing, blade, bladesmithing, craft, damascus, diy, engineering, fabrication, forge, forged in fire, handmade, knife, knifemaking, lathe, make, mig, mill, steel, sword, tig, weld, woodworking

Id: lH6O0EYK9lU

Length: 8min 35sec (515 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 06 2021