[TheForge] Silver question

[CGRAF]

I concur with finding a real silversmith.
Question:
I also am RC. Something about the question jumped out at me.
Are you sure it is a family chalice being made into a cup and not a 
family cup being made into a chalice?
Generally speaking no liturgical furniture would be reused in the 
fashion you describe.

Mike Graf

On 6/30/2014 6:36 AM, C&J Allcorn wrote:
> Was at  a dinner Fri nite honoring a close friends ordination as a
> Catholic priest and I was seated next to another priest, this one from
> Boston.  He's on the staff of
> Blessed St John XXIII Seminary in Boston.  In talking, someone mentioned
> that I was a blacksmith.  He promptly asked about the possibilities of
> taking a sterling silver chalice, melting it
> down and making a cup from that particular metal.
>
> I replied that the job was certainly doable but it would be probably
> better to find a silversmith or someone with the equipment for melting
> and drawing the silver into a plate for
> forming into a cup.  Most blacksmiths I know don't have such equipment.
>
> His reason for this project:  This is a family piece of silver and he
> wants that particular metal made into a cup.
>
> I told him I would ask a group of experts on the web about his question
> and advise.
>
> So.  Any of you guys know of one of our group (or another group, etc),
> preferably in the Boston or NE area that does this type of work?  I'll
> forward any replies.
>
> Thanks
> James, Paris TX
>