glassblower, not so much a scrapper

hiya... i'm in rochester, mn, and i'm a glassblower. in glassblowing, we end up using gold, silver, and copper. we generally don't make tons of money.. so.. saving some on these three sure is nice.
i'm trying to find a better source for close to pure.. i kinda figure 98% will be cheaper than purified to 99.99, and not just by 1.99% but.. maybe i'm wrong. just wanted to poke around here and see what there is to see.
=)

--seth

Welcome to the forum. Look around there is a lot of information available. You may be the first glass blower but I do recall an artist that used radom discarded items to make his art. As far as refinning there is another forum for that it s gold refining forum. As I recall they have section on copper and silver as well. I highly recommend you read their forum for a very long time and do the reading thery recommend before asking questions. Nice guys but sticklers for study. Mike.

i knew a few grass blowers myself, once upon a time. How do you use the gold and such in it?

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Originally Posted by Bear

i knew a few grass blowers myself, once upon a time. How do you use the gold and such in it?

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Bear that's glass, not grass. I would think that a grass blower is someone that tokes a little,,,lol

dang typoes! I was at least half serious. How do you mix gold in glass, and why?

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Originally Posted by Bear

How do you mix gold in glass, and why?

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If you add gold chloride to glass it gives a red color. Used to be that if you wanted a true red colored glass you had to use gold in it. Don't know if that is still true or not. However all that red depression era glass has gold in it, but I doubt it is recoverable.

Starbits

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If you add gold chloride to glass it gives a red color. Used to be that if you wanted a true red colored glass you had to use gold in it. Don't know if that is still true or not. However all that red depression era glass has gold in it, but I doubt it is recoverable.
Starbits

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I have a few dishes with gold edging and I notice that on the "other forum" that there is one person that crushes them and refines the gold out.
I have to wonder how many valuable dishes he/they might have destroyed for the gold?

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Originally Posted by Mechanic688

I have a few dishes with gold edging

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They used to have it all over them. I can go out to the old trash heap and dig broken ones out. Even pulled an old ceramic type lamp out that had gold all over one side

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They used to have it all over them. I can go out to the old trash heap and dig broken ones out. Even pulled an old ceramic type lamp out that had gold all over one side

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If you have enough then you could have someone refine it for you??? They do work on percentages, you know.

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Originally Posted by Mechanic688

If you have enough then you could have someone refine it for you??? They do work on percentages, you know.

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I haven't really checked into it Mech, but doubt I'd have enough to cover shipping at this point ; )

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It would probly be worth more as a lamp. I remember seeing some really red glass around here too