An interesting form of bullion I'd like to see

[fb101]

These would look real nice with the A&M logo on them.


Just an idea.........

[OneBiteAtATime]

I've got a goose you can buy.....

[Gamecock]

i'll take a dozen. where do i get them?

[Kurr]

Very nice.

Any math wizzes wanna take a crack at how many ounces it would take to fill the volume of an egg? something smaller like a robin egg?

I am sure I could cast an egg quite handily with not much more than I have now using lost wax. Have to be silver though. Hmmmmm....

[tractorman]

On some cooking website I found that it takes 19.2 grocery store "large" eggs to make 1 liter (1000 cubic centimeters). So 1 egg would be about 52 cc. The density of silver is 10.49 g/cc, so an egg of silver would weigh around 545 grams or so. 17.5 Toz sound about right?

An egg made of gold, well, I would have to find them smaller than jelly beans to ever own one!!

[tractorman]

I found that a typical chicken egg is about 5.7 cm long, and a robin egg is about 1.9 cm long (1/3 the length of the chicken egg). If the eggs are the same general shape, it would take 27 robin eggs to equal a chicken egg in volume ... so 17.5/27 = 0.65 toz

[Hawkeye]

That would be awesome in silver or gold. I would take a chicken (17.5 oz) or a whole nest of robin (.65 oz)

[Treetop]

you could market them as "nest eggs" or something similar.

[bman]

Just don't put all your eggs in one basket!!! Buy some silver AND gold

[Treetop]

Id still make them an ounce instead of .65 or whatever. Sounds much better. There are eggs of many sizes Im sure one is the size of an ounce of silver if you want it to the the size of a specific type of bird for some reason.

[OneBiteAtATime]

1 lb coppers wouldn't be bad either....

[fb101]

I was thinking robin sized for gold, Chicken sized for Silver........
Good idea from OneBiteAtATime too. maybe 4 toz though

[mtalbot_ca]

Great idea.

[Treetop]

a one troy pound silver egg might be about the size of a bantam chicken egg if a large egg is 17.5 ounces.

[Treetop]

If you got really good perhaps you could cast a one ounce gold "yolk", that was surrounded by a few ounces of silver. Something you could open up to get at the gold yolk inside. Call them nest eggs. unveil them at easter...

[Treetop]

If you got really good perhaps you could cast a one ounce gold "yolk", that was surrounded by a few ounces of silver. something where you could open up the silver to get at the gold yolk. Call them nest eggs. unveil them at easter...

[OneBiteAtATime]

If you got really good perhaps you could cast a one ounce gold "yolk", that was surrounded by a few ounces of silver. Call them nest eggs. unveil them at easter...

Nest Eggs.... Pure Marketing Genious!

[IdahoCopper]

Cast them as 1oz, then measure them and compare them to all the egg laying critters. Then see which critters are closest in size, and what is the most marketable. Perhaps gold hummingbird eggs? or Silver turtle eggs?

[shinnosuke]

Complete the marketing presentation with a "holder" for the eggs made out of brownish-colored copper wire intricately woven together like a real bird's nest.

For customers with a sense of humor, add a little bird poop to the edge of the nest by pouring a bit of melted aluminum onto the wire and letting it cool.

I'd buy it!

[creshka46]

I was thinking robin sized for gold, Chicken sized for Silver........

And Osterich sized for copper!

[tractorman]

I found that "Typical chicken eggs, classified "large" in the grocery store, will measure about 5.7 cm long and 4.4 cm wide." If we keep this length to width ratio and the general shape of an egg, its pretty easy to calculate the dimensions of any weight of silver. For example, I come up with an egg 2.2 cm long and 1.7 cm wide would be 1.0 toz.

[Thogey]

Complete the marketing presentation with a "holder" for the eggs made out of brownish-colored copper wire intricately woven together like a real bird's nest.

For customers with a sense of humor, add a little bird poop to the edge of the nest by pouring a bit of melted aluminum onto the wire and letting it cool.

I'd buy it!

This is actually a very good idea. A guy with Kurr's artistic and, attention to detail, brain could come up with a really nice piece.

[Thogey]

Very nice.

Any math wizzes wanna take a crack at how many ounces it would take to fill the volume of an egg? something smaller like a robin egg?

I am sure I could cast an egg quite handily with not much more than I have now using lost wax. Have to be silver though. Hmmmmm....

You cannot be close to accurate with a lengthXwidthXhigh measurement. Get yourself an egg and use water displacement to measure the volume.

Multiply that by the desired metal's density.

[tractorman]

Very nice.

Any math wizzes wanna take a crack at how many ounces it would take to fill the volume of an egg? something smaller like a robin egg?

I am sure I could cast an egg quite handily with not much more than I have now using lost wax. Have to be silver though. Hmmmmm....

You cannot be close to accurate with a lengthXwidthXhigh measurement. Get yourself an egg and use water displacement to measure the volume.

Multiply that by the desired metal's density.

Haha, exactly. Not having access to a graduated cylinder with ml markings, I relied on the grocery site report to estimate the volume. A more accurate measurement is surely welcomed, and the silver weight calcs are the same.

[tractorman]

For anyone really interested in calculating the volume of an egg, its no secret. http://www.had2know.com/academics/egg-surface-area-volume-calculator.html

All of my approximations assume that the length x width ratio remains the same and the same general "shape" (B and C are relative in the above figure). That's how I estimated the approx silver weight, knowing the density of silver of course. The weight of any other metal would simply be a comparison of the density compared to silver's.