in today’s video we are working with
Patrick Adair designs to make some
amazing ring stock using melted bullet
shells real meteorites and titanium
hey guys today we are here with Patrick
from Patrick Adair designs
Patrick what does your company do so I’m
a ring maker I love making rings and I
have a YouTube channel where I show you
guys how I make them so I just make a
bunch of them do a bunch of different
designs and one of my favorite materials
to work with is meteorite and you can
see I’ve got a big slab of it here it’s
just really cool because it has a lot of
interesting patterns to it but I get a
lot of scrap that there’s nothing really
to do with it so you can see we’ve got
these shavings here as well as just
those remnants there so this is
meteorite yes and this is meteorite yeah
like meteorite that fell out of the sky
and crashed into the earth yeah that is
super cool yeah these crash up in the
Arctic Circle and they go out with metal
detectors and they have to find them
send them over to the u.s. cut them up
with a bandsaw and this flat will get
sent to me make ring links and then make
rings from them and what’s this year is
this so this is titanium so they’ve got
such a nice roast also caught with the
equipment chill to work with very neat
here’s what we’re going to try we’re
going to take the meteorite shavings and
the brass we got from melting down the
bullets and we’re going to cast them
together later we’ll try to machine the
ingot into a ring we’ve got a bunch of
these bullet casings that’s our source
of brass we need to melt those down in
the furnace so let’s do that and then
while things are melting we can make a
couple of molds that we can put our
meteorite pieces down into and then
after that’s in there pour the molten
brass on top of it should that work you
think yeah let’s give it a shot
oh that’s like an oven in there
alright we’ve got our brass shells in
the cup we’re gonna melt those down once
that’s melted down we should be able to
pour it into the media right this way I
think well that’s melting we should get
our molds ready meteorite shavings so
that everything just ready to go as soon
I had a couple different ideas of how we
can try casting this and I admit that I
have not done this a lot before but you
brought us these nice aluminum tubes
which hopefully should give us a nice
clean cast but aluminum has a lower
melting point than brass and I don’t
want to melt the tube as we pour it in
so we’ve also got some sand and here’s
my thought we can tape the tube
press it down somewhat into the sand and
then build a bunch of sand up around the
sides that might act as a heat sink so
that we can cast directly into the tube
and not have it melts or deform too
badly and then we should get a nice
cylinder of our poor perfect yeah and
then I also have some of this silica
firebrick and this is extremely heat
resistant and somewhat porous so I was
thinking we might be able to drill a
hole down into the fire rig and cast
directly in it then once the casting
cools down we can just break the fire
break apart and reveal the casting
inside how do those sounds sounds great
let’s try it now this is an experiment
we’re hoping it will work I don’t know
for sure a lot of this is an experiment
have you ever tried embedding meteorite
shavings in a metal before I certainly
have not so all right can I get crazy
how big of a casting do you think we
should do in each of these well I think
what we should do because it’s nice
because I have a lathe and what that
does it crabs onto material then I spin
it and I’m able to cut some ring shape
into it so I need a little bit of excess
space for that so I think that the plan
should be this will put about an inch or
two of meteorite shavings down in the
bottom of each of them and then we’ll
fill it up with brass and we’ll go a
little bit past that and that
excess material that’ll be for me to
grab on to you’ll end up with about a 3
maybe 4 inch long rod at the end okay so
this tube probably about the right size
and then this one we could either cut
short or we can just press it down
farther into the sand either works I
I think our brass is ready to be
important so at this point what do you
think should we start taking our
shavings and putting them into our two
little tubes here yeah let’s try
sprinkling some of these in wonderful we
probably don’t want too much of it but
we want enough that it will definitely
be visible inside the ring yeah that’s
the goal
oh boy
there we go
[Music]
all right here goes
well we definitely got it poured down in
there now we just kind of have to wait
for it to cool down so we can see how
well it did yeah hopefully it got in
with all those little meteorite pieces
we still have some brass that’s molten
but we don’t have enough for a whole
second core so let’s just melt a little
bit more oh oh
so some meteorite definitely did get
stuck in the brass this magnet is very
attracted to all the meteorites since
it’s made of iron and nickel but it
can’t pull it out so we got a little bit
of it the question is how much let this
cool off so some things there worked
well and some things did not we didn’t
get the brass to float through the
meteorite shavings and I think that’s
because they were too dense so for this
time around we’re gonna try it with some
titanium we’ll also try it again with
some meteorite we’ll do a couple
different techniques to try to do that
but for this titanium one we’re just
gonna try to put them in there pretty
loosely so we’ll just have a lot less
density of the shavings themselves I’m
also very interested about the fact that
our brass looks a lot more like copper
at this point under if it’s copper
colored all the way through
true we should maybe grab a file and
start wearing this down see if we’ve got
some nice meteorite in there we might
well I think we’ve got good grass I’m
just not so sure about the meteorite
maybe we can try like pouring some brass
and then putting some more shavings on
top so yeah yeah kind of without a ring
it did that’ll work
brass is poured into our tight team oh
boy that I like how that slides out kind
of think it shrinks when it cools that
that’s probably it ooh it looks like we
got our brass all the way down to the
bottom on this one it’s not a super
smoothbore since we did for it in the
three layers you can definitely see
those layers but the titanium is
definitely in there
yeah hopefully we can cut away through
that it’s just really not even very
lower anymore so yeah I bet you can get
some good stuff now we don’t really have
the equipment here to show what’s on the
inside of this but you have the
equipment you can cut this open and see
what it looks like right yes we’ll be
taking a look at that crease here very
cool well let’s try a couple more I
think this method worked better than
just pouring it down on top of the
meteorite shavings so let’s try the same
thing with the meteorite in and then a
little bit of brass and more meteorite
and more brass in that area see if we
can’t get this same result yeah a
meteorite I think we might want to try a
combo even two titanium and meteor idea
I might make four that could be neat
nice combination
alright let’s try this so let’s get a
little bits of titanium and meteorite
shavings all ready to go and try this
same method again alright the titanium
really holds itself together and makes
much longer strands than the meteorite
it seems
yeah the meteorite kind of fragments
it’s a lot more fragile almost like
metal prepared by outer space isn’t
quite as refined as metal prepared by
people on earth
interesting that
suckers aliens got nothing on her now we
also have the other mold carved into our
brick what do we want to do in that one
let’s do make this one a kind of a combo
okay
[Music]
that go let go okay you can just come
[Music]
and that’s that’s cooled down
whoo well that’s quite a bit more brass
in those ones than we had before yeah I
think these will make some good castings
Oh interesting the water seeps into the
firebrick you can see steam is actually
just coming right out the side of the
brick now
[Music]
tell you that the layers like really
bonded in this one yeah all right this
one’s maybe not quite as clean but I
still think we got some metal jam and
you can see there’s the big piece of
meteorite right there sort of sticking
out on the side okay and you know you’re
the one who’s got the tools who’s gonna
be able to figure out if this will work
yeah we’ll have to see I have no idea
Patrick we got some interesting results
how do you feel about this I mean I
think we’re gonna be able to make this
do it was quite a bit of a challenge we
had a lot of problems with the materials
not sticking together the layers being
difficult but I think in the end I think
we’ll be able to get a ring out of these
all right so this was our first one we
tried just pouring all the brass down on
top of the meteorite shavings and it
wasn’t really able to get past in the
year.i shavings those ended up just
sitting on the bottom of it with no
brass around them we then tried moving
on to using titanium and for this
instead of just pouring it down on top
we had loosely sprinkled titanium we
poured some brass on sprinkled some more
titanium more brass or titanium final
layer of brass so for this one I think
we got some good layers of titanium
sandwiched into the brass it looks like
it’s quite well bonded together so this
one probably all will work out pretty
well yeah I think so let’s we just get
past those rough edges we’ve got on the
outside this is the one that was inside
our fire brick we had some big old
chunks of meteorite in there as well as
lots of shavings there are a few
different layers of pores so I bet
there’s some good embedding going on
here and then this last one here this
tall one this one looks pretty good I
think we’ve got four layers of brass and
we had meteorite shavings with titanium
shavings
mixed together all through what’s it
gonna take to find out what’s inside
these things so I think what we’re gonna
want to do is just grind into them a
little bit see what we’ve got going make
sure that we don’t have any separation
of the layers we do on the edges of
course but I think let’s make rind into
it a little bit we should be able to see
where it uses together and once we get
it kind of shaved down and know what
working with that’s when I’ll put it in
my late will just be able to work with
it and turn it away and how we’re left
with the ring shape so it could be
really interesting to see how this goes
where is gonna be the best place to see
the process of making these so I’m
actually going to be making a ring from
these and then be posting that to my
youtube channel and that’s what my
channel is I just make a bunch of
differing set of a bunch of cool
different exotic materials so I think
this is gonna be a really interesting
one this ring here what is this one this
is pretty cool so this is actually a
limited edition king of random ring that
we’re going to do it is carbon fiber and
it’s infused with titanium so it’s a
really interesting material that’s on
the outside and then the resin on the
inside that is a glow resin and it’s
just in that king of random yellow this
is a prototype that’s just a little bit
more green but both the interior plastic
and the color that it glows in the dark
will be yellow look for those on his
website Patrick Adair designs the link
is in the description below guys it’s
not all if you want to see Patrick’s
video of turning this brass and get into
an amazing ring just click the box up at
the top if you want to get a meteorite
or carbon fiber glow ring of your very
own just check the link in the
description below hit this bomb to
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Patrick Adair designs to make some
amazing ring stock using melted bullet
shells real meteorites and titanium
hey guys today we are here with Patrick
from Patrick Adair designs
Patrick what does your company do so I’m
a ring maker I love making rings and I
have a YouTube channel where I show you
guys how I make them so I just make a
bunch of them do a bunch of different
designs and one of my favorite materials
to work with is meteorite and you can
see I’ve got a big slab of it here it’s
just really cool because it has a lot of
interesting patterns to it but I get a
lot of scrap that there’s nothing really
to do with it so you can see we’ve got
these shavings here as well as just
those remnants there so this is
meteorite yes and this is meteorite yeah
like meteorite that fell out of the sky
and crashed into the earth yeah that is
super cool yeah these crash up in the
Arctic Circle and they go out with metal
detectors and they have to find them
send them over to the u.s. cut them up
with a bandsaw and this flat will get
sent to me make ring links and then make
rings from them and what’s this year is
this so this is titanium so they’ve got
such a nice roast also caught with the
equipment chill to work with very neat
here’s what we’re going to try we’re
going to take the meteorite shavings and
the brass we got from melting down the
bullets and we’re going to cast them
together later we’ll try to machine the
ingot into a ring we’ve got a bunch of
these bullet casings that’s our source
of brass we need to melt those down in
the furnace so let’s do that and then
while things are melting we can make a
couple of molds that we can put our
meteorite pieces down into and then
after that’s in there pour the molten
brass on top of it should that work you
think yeah let’s give it a shot
oh that’s like an oven in there
alright we’ve got our brass shells in
the cup we’re gonna melt those down once
that’s melted down we should be able to
pour it into the media right this way I
think well that’s melting we should get
our molds ready meteorite shavings so
that everything just ready to go as soon
I had a couple different ideas of how we
can try casting this and I admit that I
have not done this a lot before but you
brought us these nice aluminum tubes
which hopefully should give us a nice
clean cast but aluminum has a lower
melting point than brass and I don’t
want to melt the tube as we pour it in
so we’ve also got some sand and here’s
my thought we can tape the tube
press it down somewhat into the sand and
then build a bunch of sand up around the
sides that might act as a heat sink so
that we can cast directly into the tube
and not have it melts or deform too
badly and then we should get a nice
cylinder of our poor perfect yeah and
then I also have some of this silica
firebrick and this is extremely heat
resistant and somewhat porous so I was
thinking we might be able to drill a
hole down into the fire rig and cast
directly in it then once the casting
cools down we can just break the fire
break apart and reveal the casting
inside how do those sounds sounds great
let’s try it now this is an experiment
we’re hoping it will work I don’t know
for sure a lot of this is an experiment
have you ever tried embedding meteorite
shavings in a metal before I certainly
have not so all right can I get crazy
how big of a casting do you think we
should do in each of these well I think
what we should do because it’s nice
because I have a lathe and what that
does it crabs onto material then I spin
it and I’m able to cut some ring shape
into it so I need a little bit of excess
space for that so I think that the plan
should be this will put about an inch or
two of meteorite shavings down in the
bottom of each of them and then we’ll
fill it up with brass and we’ll go a
little bit past that and that
excess material that’ll be for me to
grab on to you’ll end up with about a 3
maybe 4 inch long rod at the end okay so
this tube probably about the right size
and then this one we could either cut
short or we can just press it down
farther into the sand either works I
I think our brass is ready to be
important so at this point what do you
think should we start taking our
shavings and putting them into our two
little tubes here yeah let’s try
sprinkling some of these in wonderful we
probably don’t want too much of it but
we want enough that it will definitely
be visible inside the ring yeah that’s
the goal
oh boy
there we go
[Music]
all right here goes
well we definitely got it poured down in
there now we just kind of have to wait
for it to cool down so we can see how
well it did yeah hopefully it got in
with all those little meteorite pieces
we still have some brass that’s molten
but we don’t have enough for a whole
second core so let’s just melt a little
bit more oh oh
so some meteorite definitely did get
stuck in the brass this magnet is very
attracted to all the meteorites since
it’s made of iron and nickel but it
can’t pull it out so we got a little bit
of it the question is how much let this
cool off so some things there worked
well and some things did not we didn’t
get the brass to float through the
meteorite shavings and I think that’s
because they were too dense so for this
time around we’re gonna try it with some
titanium we’ll also try it again with
some meteorite we’ll do a couple
different techniques to try to do that
but for this titanium one we’re just
gonna try to put them in there pretty
loosely so we’ll just have a lot less
density of the shavings themselves I’m
also very interested about the fact that
our brass looks a lot more like copper
at this point under if it’s copper
colored all the way through
true we should maybe grab a file and
start wearing this down see if we’ve got
some nice meteorite in there we might
well I think we’ve got good grass I’m
just not so sure about the meteorite
maybe we can try like pouring some brass
and then putting some more shavings on
top so yeah yeah kind of without a ring
it did that’ll work
brass is poured into our tight team oh
boy that I like how that slides out kind
of think it shrinks when it cools that
that’s probably it ooh it looks like we
got our brass all the way down to the
bottom on this one it’s not a super
smoothbore since we did for it in the
three layers you can definitely see
those layers but the titanium is
definitely in there
yeah hopefully we can cut away through
that it’s just really not even very
lower anymore so yeah I bet you can get
some good stuff now we don’t really have
the equipment here to show what’s on the
inside of this but you have the
equipment you can cut this open and see
what it looks like right yes we’ll be
taking a look at that crease here very
cool well let’s try a couple more I
think this method worked better than
just pouring it down on top of the
meteorite shavings so let’s try the same
thing with the meteorite in and then a
little bit of brass and more meteorite
and more brass in that area see if we
can’t get this same result yeah a
meteorite I think we might want to try a
combo even two titanium and meteor idea
I might make four that could be neat
nice combination
alright let’s try this so let’s get a
little bits of titanium and meteorite
shavings all ready to go and try this
same method again alright the titanium
really holds itself together and makes
much longer strands than the meteorite
it seems
yeah the meteorite kind of fragments
it’s a lot more fragile almost like
metal prepared by outer space isn’t
quite as refined as metal prepared by
people on earth
interesting that
suckers aliens got nothing on her now we
also have the other mold carved into our
brick what do we want to do in that one
let’s do make this one a kind of a combo
okay
[Music]
that go let go okay you can just come
[Music]
and that’s that’s cooled down
whoo well that’s quite a bit more brass
in those ones than we had before yeah I
think these will make some good castings
Oh interesting the water seeps into the
firebrick you can see steam is actually
just coming right out the side of the
brick now
[Music]
tell you that the layers like really
bonded in this one yeah all right this
one’s maybe not quite as clean but I
still think we got some metal jam and
you can see there’s the big piece of
meteorite right there sort of sticking
out on the side okay and you know you’re
the one who’s got the tools who’s gonna
be able to figure out if this will work
yeah we’ll have to see I have no idea
Patrick we got some interesting results
how do you feel about this I mean I
think we’re gonna be able to make this
do it was quite a bit of a challenge we
had a lot of problems with the materials
not sticking together the layers being
difficult but I think in the end I think
we’ll be able to get a ring out of these
all right so this was our first one we
tried just pouring all the brass down on
top of the meteorite shavings and it
wasn’t really able to get past in the
year.i shavings those ended up just
sitting on the bottom of it with no
brass around them we then tried moving
on to using titanium and for this
instead of just pouring it down on top
we had loosely sprinkled titanium we
poured some brass on sprinkled some more
titanium more brass or titanium final
layer of brass so for this one I think
we got some good layers of titanium
sandwiched into the brass it looks like
it’s quite well bonded together so this
one probably all will work out pretty
well yeah I think so let’s we just get
past those rough edges we’ve got on the
outside this is the one that was inside
our fire brick we had some big old
chunks of meteorite in there as well as
lots of shavings there are a few
different layers of pores so I bet
there’s some good embedding going on
here and then this last one here this
tall one this one looks pretty good I
think we’ve got four layers of brass and
we had meteorite shavings with titanium
shavings
mixed together all through what’s it
gonna take to find out what’s inside
these things so I think what we’re gonna
want to do is just grind into them a
little bit see what we’ve got going make
sure that we don’t have any separation
of the layers we do on the edges of
course but I think let’s make rind into
it a little bit we should be able to see
where it uses together and once we get
it kind of shaved down and know what
working with that’s when I’ll put it in
my late will just be able to work with
it and turn it away and how we’re left
with the ring shape so it could be
really interesting to see how this goes
where is gonna be the best place to see
the process of making these so I’m
actually going to be making a ring from
these and then be posting that to my
youtube channel and that’s what my
channel is I just make a bunch of
differing set of a bunch of cool
different exotic materials so I think
this is gonna be a really interesting
one this ring here what is this one this
is pretty cool so this is actually a
limited edition king of random ring that
we’re going to do it is carbon fiber and
it’s infused with titanium so it’s a
really interesting material that’s on
the outside and then the resin on the
inside that is a glow resin and it’s
just in that king of random yellow this
is a prototype that’s just a little bit
more green but both the interior plastic
and the color that it glows in the dark
will be yellow look for those on his
website Patrick Adair designs the link
is in the description below guys it’s
not all if you want to see Patrick’s
video of turning this brass and get into
an amazing ring just click the box up at
the top if you want to get a meteorite
or carbon fiber glow ring of your very
own just check the link in the
description below hit this bomb to
become a subscriber to the channel so
you never miss out on a video don’t
forget to ring that Bell and we’ll see you the next one talk to you then
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