I bought a gold plated tungsten carbide replica of the One Ring with the tengwar script laser engraved on it (inside and outside) back when the movies came out and have worn it on a silver chain necklace nearly everyday since. It doesn't have a scratch on it. Highly recommended if you want a long lasting piece of geeky jewelry. =)
The OG Star Wars was about Luke Skywalker. Then, during the prequels, Lucas retconned the whole thing to have been about Vader all along, be ause audiences loved the character so much. And even later, Disney is like "Nonono, it has been about Palpatine all along!" I wouldn't be surprised if Twenty years from now the original 12 Star Wars movies will be known as the saga of Darth Jar Jar.
Considering the script is available right from the book, one wonders why they took the route of downloading a tengwar font and typing it by hand, allowing for errors like this. =/
It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched, so that I doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it… The Ring misseth, maybe, the heat of Sauron's hand, which was black and yet burned like fire, and so Gil-galad was destroyed; and maybe were the gold made hot again, the writing would be refreshed. But for my part I will risk no hurt to this thing: of all the works of Sauron the only fair. It is precious to me, though I buy it with great pain.
Yeah. Some guys tunnel under the buildings and collect the gold dust as it filters through the floorboards. Lol. (Have you ever heard Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin sing?)
Worked in the jewelry industry years ago. Yep, everything is saved. They'll even send in entire carpets and vacuum bags from the bench work areas to get the most of it every so often.
After years of filing and polishing jewelry in the same room, there's a substantial amount of metal dust that can be found in them. Vacuum bags from the bench areas are saved also.
Yes. Refiners will take various size containers, even 55 gallon drums of whatever fits into them. There are various processes, usually incineration and then using various chemical reactions to extract the precious metals that can then be refined. Jewelers also take "bench sweeps" (dust and fine shavings) and smelt them themselves to be reused for castings.
There's actually enough gold dust that it's financially viable to collect the dust and dirt from the streets outside of a jewelry-district in a large city.
Math time: 1 teaspoon = 4.9282 milliliters / cubic centimeters. Gold weighs 19.32 grams per cubic centimeter. That makes 95.212824 grams per teaspoon. At today's price, Gold is $74.81 per gram. That makes a teaspoon of gold worth: $7122.871
TIL - I didn't realize gold was so close to the top end of elemental metal density. Hell I would have guessed it floated on mercury, but it is significantly more dense.
More likely just really low viscosity cyanoacrylate (superglue) it's what I've used countless times for glow in the dark fret markers on guitar builds.
It isn't, this is a very wasteful way of making a ring (when you could roll the metal into a strip, bend it round, solder, polish) for which gold is too expensive.
Uh, no it isn't. Vents/sprues get melted down and used in future casts, and if a jeweler is careful when cutting and filing those off, the majority of the resulting dust can also be recovered. Only real losses are the investment plaster, which even in hobbyist quantities is only about $3/lb, and electricity to run the shop.
That's not what is shown in the video. Stick to the evidence at hand and not how a proper goldsmith would operate, because that was precisely the point of my comment.
I betcha this one works just as good.... Elvish-Ring-Glow-Dark-Jewelry/dp/B0B6VW4FSY">https://www.amazon.com/Elvish-Ring-Glow-Dark-Jewelry/dp/B0B6VW4FSY
I should do a little PSA post about this - extraneous crap in URLs (URIs)
Example: all the "si=" junk in YouTube URLs. They trimmed their teaching method, but it (this) is still there. The only thing you need for a YouTube video, is the 11 character code.
RElGNMAN
Sillydilly
AND IN THE DARKNESS BIND THEM
nozerohero
Don't give Hollywood any ideas with that title, you saw what they did to Star Wars.
RuijiRiku
possiblyafakeaccount
Want!!
KeyMasher
djangojazz
But can you make it cool to the touch and have the letters only appear when under flame?
Sasuuni
It didn't take that long and no volcano needed. Let's just make a load of them and kick his arse!
durandal2
"A secret now only black light can reveal...."
Elnauriel
Eh, there's a few secrets black light can revel. =p
Elnauriel
I bought a gold plated tungsten carbide replica of the One Ring with the tengwar script laser engraved on it (inside and outside) back when the movies came out and have worn it on a silver chain necklace nearly everyday since. It doesn't have a scratch on it. Highly recommended if you want a long lasting piece of geeky jewelry. =)
bourbonandbaddecisions
Ok. How much?
DaddyChillWhatTheHellIsEvenThat
I got married with the one ring. Made by the same guys who did the ring for the movie. Can’t believe I convinced my wife to go with it.
Aeolys
I don't think Celebrimbor had these tools on hand to craft the rings of power
NPSM365
Yeah but do they only appear when the ring is heated??
Zetor
Sauron had some nice machinery for the time
MrStealYourGiF
"Somehow" ??? What negligent clown let J J Abrams anywhere near the Tolkien canon???
zwielichtengelchen
The OG Star Wars was about Luke Skywalker. Then, during the prequels, Lucas retconned the whole thing to have been about Vader all along, be ause audiences loved the character so much. And even later, Disney is like "Nonono, it has been about Palpatine all along!" I wouldn't be surprised if Twenty years from now the original 12 Star Wars movies will be known as the saga of Darth Jar Jar.
Djohaal
Darth Darth Jar Jar
BobisBobIsHimIsMe
Where do I buy!
Yakeshinu
pixelscapes
EvilMasterBetty
The music playing does have a certain ring to it
Elvenbane
Forbidden egg yolk
AtsaMattaForMe
TheLeanWolf
I forget, did they ever find Sauron's laser engraver?
Fargus57
Don't encourage Christopher Tolkien to reincarnate and write another book.
Efreeti
There are few who can
JetsterDajet
Hate to be that guy, but I write Tengwar calligraphy, and this inscription is close but doesn't look accurate.
Elnauriel
Considering the script is available right from the book, one wonders why they took the route of downloading a tengwar font and typing it by hand, allowing for errors like this. =/
shapr
Oh man, I want one with glow in the dark runes!
RadiDaddy
It’s quite cool.
ipickupheavythings
I can assure you it's not.
billycakers
I understood that reference
ArcaneConjecture
Take it!
wotgorilla
KeyMasher
https://archive.org/details/TheHiFiHobbitV2 BOOM
Lodrial
Wow, brilliant content on a couple levels, bravo.
ExTechOp
It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched, so that I doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it… The Ring misseth, maybe, the heat of Sauron's hand, which was black and yet burned like fire, and so Gil-galad was destroyed; and maybe were the gold made hot again, the writing would be refreshed. But for my part I will risk no hurt to this thing: of all the works of Sauron the only fair. It is precious to me, though I buy it with great pain.
Alomega
Objectively false. That’s hot as fuck!
CalvinMcFly
sherlockhooves
Can you see anything!?
Lassannn
It's a football game, daddy. Can we stay and watch?
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
timbazi
does it work?
KingXizor
Azh nazh durbatuluk
Azh nazh gimbatul
Azh nazh thrakatuluk
Agh burzurm-ishi krimpatul
Level21Magikarp
But they were, all of them, deceived, for another ring was made.
JakeMcAwesome
myrealnames
No one can see it working.
Shaodyn
"The writing is in the language of Mordor, which I shall not utter here."
Idontcareatall62
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
azzabat
I’m assuming there is some method of collecting the dust from the filing down, as it’s literally gold dust ?
oldguyexlurker
Yeah. Some guys tunnel under the buildings and collect the gold dust as it filters through the floorboards. Lol. (Have you ever heard Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin sing?)
tolipwen
“Welcome to hell!”l
MyCatsAreTypingThis
Worked in the jewelry industry years ago. Yep, everything is saved. They'll even send in entire carpets and vacuum bags from the bench work areas to get the most of it every so often.
FoxySpirit
Why carpets?
RichardPotato
There's gold in them thar piles
MyCatsAreTypingThis
After years of filing and polishing jewelry in the same room, there's a substantial amount of metal dust that can be found in them. Vacuum bags from the bench areas are saved also.
FoxySpirit
What I mean, why have carpets in such a work environment instead of a hard surfaced floor.
JustSomePersonThere
Wait, there is enough gold dust to make it financially viable to pay for the extraction?
MyCatsAreTypingThis
Yes. Refiners will take various size containers, even 55 gallon drums of whatever fits into them. There are various processes, usually incineration and then using various chemical reactions to extract the precious metals that can then be refined. Jewelers also take "bench sweeps" (dust and fine shavings) and smelt them themselves to be reused for castings.
mmontour
Eventually, yes.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
There's actually enough gold dust that it's financially viable to collect the dust and dirt from the streets outside of a jewelry-district in a large city.
JustSomePersonThere
Fascinating. Who the heck do you sell it to?
koops
https://youtube.com/shorts/5LTGZH99DBQ
MADchemEE
It's getting close to $100/g (for 24K).
Get ready for this....
1 tsp of pure gold, weighs about ....
ONE HUNDRED GRAMS!
One teaspoon, is worth nearly $10,000!
(don't know the 'bulking/packing factor' though)
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Math time: 1 teaspoon = 4.9282 milliliters / cubic centimeters.
Gold weighs 19.32 grams per cubic centimeter.
That makes 95.212824 grams per teaspoon.
At today's price, Gold is $74.81 per gram.
That makes a teaspoon of gold worth: $7122.871
JeremyGabbard
TIL - I didn't realize gold was so close to the top end of elemental metal density. Hell I would have guessed it floated on mercury, but it is significantly more dense.
conjuratio
Anybody know what the materials are? Thx
Willowhisper12
Forbidden poached eggs
ahorseelbowdeepinme
Forbidden yolk
prettydumb
metal and red
isetprettygirlsonfire
Acquiredtaste
Go home, Ea-Nasir, you're drunk.
Stanistani
Gold, adamantium, and mithril sulfate.
Rignak
Best glow powder I've found is strontium illuminate. My guess is that plus some epoxy resin.
marshall91t
More likely just really low viscosity cyanoacrylate (superglue) it's what I've used countless times for glow in the dark fret markers on guitar builds.
CaptGunpowder
How well does superglue hold up against perspiration and frequent rubbing?
rbudrick
This was my question as well.
PainKiller01
I'm guessing its gold
q2grapple
And pixie dust
TheyCallMeMrPigeonCuzImJustSoCoo
I'm guessing you're gold. You sexy devil, you.
PainKiller01
bolobass
It isn't, this is a very wasteful way of making a ring (when you could roll the metal into a strip, bend it round, solder, polish) for which gold is too expensive.
krylani
Uh, no it isn't. Vents/sprues get melted down and used in future casts, and if a jeweler is careful when cutting and filing those off, the majority of the resulting dust can also be recovered. Only real losses are the investment plaster, which even in hobbyist quantities is only about $3/lb, and electricity to run the shop.
bolobass
That's not what is shown in the video. Stick to the evidence at hand and not how a proper goldsmith would operate, because that was precisely the point of my comment.
StevenAlleyn
& frankincense & myrrh
ExistenceIsPainWasTaken
His cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.
ToCrushYourEnemiesSeeThemDrivenBeforeYouToHearTheLamentation
nikolateslaismyhomeboy
PineappleLoopsBroether
Also baking powder
Faloopsinarb
Oh, well done.
TheyCallMeMrPigeonCuzImJustSoCoo
koops
Ahh the old mother in law special!
Lassannn
Ironblitz
And 40% dolomite. That's dolomite, baby!
Elnauriel
I know a robot who's 40% dolomite!
SubtleHarbinger
MyOldUserNameMeantUndeadCocaineButNowItsThis
Me right before starting a game of Warhammer
Lassannn
I looked it up and I think the powder is aquamarine, which glows after being in the Sun or under a UV torch. https://www.amazon.com/Elvish-Ring-Glow-Dark-Jewelry/dp/B0B6VW4FSY/ref=asc_df_B0B6VW4FSY/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=692875362841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10592798341814279693&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1021172&hvtargid=pla-2281435178098&psc=1&mcid=33d7df0f919f394e8137de18d5976a09&hvocijid=10592798341814279693-B0B6VW4FSY-&hvexpln=73&gad_source=1
jesuisgur
You know, when copy/paste of Amazon links, you can remove everything except the /dp/ and the code after it.
AntaNce
Aquamarine is blue beryl, a gemstone. It's not photo-reactive. Also used as a name for blue colors. This ring has a GITD inlay.
ArcheiaSophiaMetatronsWife
I think the "aquamarine" or the color reference as it also says red-orange. The glow is a UV reacting powder
MADchemEE
I betcha this one works just as good....
Elvish-Ring-Glow-Dark-Jewelry/dp/B0B6VW4FSY">https://www.amazon.com/Elvish-Ring-Glow-Dark-Jewelry/dp/B0B6VW4FSY
Or even...
amazon.com/dp/B0B6VW4FSY
Lassannn
MADchemEE
I should do a little PSA post about this - extraneous crap in URLs (URIs)
Example: all the "si=" junk in YouTube URLs. They trimmed their teaching method, but it (this) is still there.
The only thing you need for a YouTube video, is the 11 character code.
Eg: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEPgHdsaHgg&si=_oclsTa2VVXeNnbH&feature=share">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEPgHdsaHgg&si=_oclsTa2VVXeNnbH&feature=share
Becomes: youtu.be/vEPgHdsaHgg