[TheForge] Silver question

[dantull dantull]

Stolen? Liability?

It's not firewood, it's a vaasse.
Dan Tull
Georgia


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:45 AM, CGRAF <adveniam at att.net> wrote:

> 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
>>
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