Melting Sterling Silver Into Beautiful Coins
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- Опубліковано 12 лют 2022
- From tarnished forks and candle holders to GORGEOUS Sterling Silver coins - this is what it's all about!! This is the REAL heavy metal.
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Not impressed, those spoons and things are much more attractive and valuable then those “coins” of yours
Luckily I don't give a shit what you think, so there's that.
You grew up in an era before me where we were taught, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all." So what the hell gives? You need to be better than that. What a horrible, petty look.
@@SkullerMetals Ignore that guy, this was really exciting to watch!! Great job
😂😂Forget what this geezer has to say. I'd rather have a badass silver lion coin any day than to show people a bunch of old spoons and forks wtf lol! Heck I'd even buy some of those coins from you! I like how you included the messed up pours and frustrating parts. Showed the realism in the nuances of the art.
@@SkullerMetals he's right, but what do you care? you're melting it down to consolidate it into a round. ur a silver stacker, not a jeweler.
Finally a perfect how to!!! I love that you showed trial and error. That helps a lot. Thanks and GORGEOUS work!
That's great feedback, I appreciate it. Thanks very much!!
Nice
I always enjoy the intros. Good job figuring out the process for great pours.
Your into is way too short, and I fell asleep during your video😴 jk, that was a cool ass melt, brother! You were rocking those pours. RIP bob, he is in a better place now👍
Hi from the U.K. I found this very inspirational. I have the same furnace and still learning how to make something beautiful. I have a brass casket about 6'' in length x 5'' high that I want to recreate -pouring into 12'' flask with petrobond mold; poured 1 kilo of silver only to find that the base plate section of the mold was all I managed to cast. I'll keep going though until I can develope the technique. Thank you for putting this video together, it has helped me realise a couple of things.
Great, thank you for the feedback. I sure wish you the best of luck. Just keep trying and you'll finally get it just right.
Thank you for a no bs video. Much appreciated
Thank you!
In the end they look awesome! I want to start doing this hopefully this winter! Wanna get a forge asap! Once the process is figured out it’s all up hill!
I had problems with sterling silver myself, glad ya fingerd out about the torch trick, tricky, but it works! Great video!
Thanks Fred!
Damn this is really cool! Love to see people get creative with precious metals
I appreciate it!
Everything needs to be hotter, way hotter. Go to about 1100 on the silver and pre heat your moods for at least a few minutes before the pour. Also a little borax wouldn’t hurt 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
It's an art... hard to master, but you got it! Love the commentary! Nice pours!
Hey thanks, I appreciate it. Yeah it's not as easy as it may seem. There are some keys to success which you just have to kinda figure out. Will be doing more soon actually. Cheers!!
ill pay ya half of what its worth now lmao
It’s like you said practice makes perfect it’s always the first several coins you pour will be difficult but it gets better and better after that lovely looking coins 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😊😊😊
Beautiful artworks.
Thank you.
Trial and error + patience and lots of heat = excellent pours. Well done, sir.
I appreciate that, thank you!
@@SkullerMetals you earned my subscription. Keep up the great work!
OUCH! Some of that was painful to watch hahaha. Tough learning curve. Glad you figured it all out and showed the process. Was worried it was all gonna burn haha. Looks great! Going to try my hand at it next week.
Thank you! Yeah at some point everyone has to figure it out. Failures aren't failures, they're learning opportunities. Good luck with your melt.
Great job brother
BEAUTIFUL
AWESOME Howto!!!
I truly sympathize with you! I poured my first piece yesterday, into a graphite mold. It didn't work! I found out my mold wasn't hot enough and it solidified too quickly. I had NO idea pouring could be such a pain in the a@@! Great video though. I'm really happy that you finally got what you wanted.
Thanks Scott. Yeah it definitely can be frustrating. Just keep trying and learning.
Watching things melt always reminds me of the Terminator movie. 🤣
you should really use some kind of mask that protects you from the fumes. nice video btw👍
I've always wanted to try doing that with silver. You must be in the upper Midwest, I saw that Menards bucket. I'm in Minnesota.
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.925 silver one oz. at a time takes less than 10 min in a mikerowave!
Great video, starting to play with pouring myself.
How do you know if the spoons/forks/salt shakers got any pewter/lead weights in them?
Usually silver knives got stainless steel for the blade part.
Pewter and lead will melt with a Mapgas torch. Silver takes much higher temps. You'd know.
Wow those are nice!
Thanks Trent!
Melt at 1050 F. Pour into tall column of water slowly to make shot. Then weigh out the amount of silver required to fill the mold place in ceramic melt dish and melt with hand torch. Better to use oxygen and Mapp or acetylene gas. You could also just place it inside a gas or electric furnace. The only way you could pour it straight out of the crucible is back your mold with block that has a sprue and riser.
Definitely the right way to do it. I didn't think about turning it to shot and then weighing out. Unfortunately I don't an acetylene torch - just my hand-held mapp gas and the device in the video.
Nice job! What is the apparatus you used to melt everything? Was it Propane powered
Thank you. It's an electric forge. Good for silver and sterling.
@@SkullerMetals I like that electric forge. How hot can you set it because I see people commenting make it hotter?
@@Bluegrassriver8 Not sure, I haven't messed with the temps. But I know people melt copper in them so that means it will get to about 2000 degrees.
irregardless...they came out awesome. I got to try melting silver someday
Really nice work shop you ave there. Good work as well, thanks for great videos here and I wish you all the best
Thanks Mario!
Why is all this, what purpose and beauty is there in this?😀
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder my friend.
Bro you really shouldn’t have the fuel tank on the table when you’re pouring. Anyways all love man thanks for showing how hard it actually is to do this work
With all metals heat is super important at the pour. Your mold should be hot as you showed here to avoid shock and so your mold doesn't cool the metal too quickly. Keeping heat on the pour after will help smooth it out as you have found out. You can also purify your stearling into pure silver as well by using a cuppell and separating the copper and zinc from the silver. Good luck to you and keep those videos coming!
"wonder who's rich mouth that one was in" 😁
What is the purpose of changing the shape if they are still .925. At least with the scrap everything is marked and verifiable as sterling. After you melt it, it could be anything. I guess if it were refined I could see the point a bit better.
It's fun.
Awesome
Thank you!
Where did you find all this sterling silver?
He visited his grandmother and took it. Kidding. I'm curious where all that came from too.
That’s cool
how much is the portable smelter that you are using?.
If you turn the temperature up on your furnace, the silver won't freeze so quickly. cool video though. Subscribed liked and rung the bell.
Awesome, thanks!
Does the consistency issue have anything to do with the purity?
No, I just didn't have the molds hot enough. Once I poured into them several times it got them much hotter.
Is It best to insulate, as shown, with Fire fibre resistance material fibre just In case? I have the same electronic smelter that is offered, & takes "FOREVER," Next move Devils Smelter & Gass, much better as I have seen for myself! P/S, great video. Please keep them coming
I appreciate that. Yeah good question, I don't know. Mine doesn't take all that long to get to temperature. I wonder if yours is just faulty. I think mine takes like 15 minutes??? Not sure that's long or not. Good luck with your melting!
Interesting
Thank you! And thanks for watching. Cheers!!
Make sure you heat up the molds to 400-500 with a torch before pouring and add some borax flux
At 7:40 he grabbed the borax
Try melting just enough to fill the mould
I did my first pour to day with sum silver shot that I got from rio grand it came out real bad black and cooper looking iam new to this help.
Silver is VERY hard to pour. Mold has to be really hot. Also good to keep a flame on the metal as your pouring it. It just "cools" so quickly that you kind of have to be fast with it. Have to pour it as soon as you remove it from the heat.
Waaaaaaaay HOTTEEEEEEER!!!!
what kind of furnace is that I saw one similar from Amazon?
It's called a "ToAuto". Does a nice job.
My sterling always turns black even after I clean it does using borax really help that much?
Hello, new viewer, and subber! Do you sell any of your finished sterling?
Thank you! I did sell the pieces that I poured except for a couple. I don't melt it very often.
@Skuller Metals do u happen to have an ebay store or do u just sell to friends and such?
@@AMBASSADORHOFF No Ebay store. Just sold to friends so far. I didn't really do it thinking people would want it. 😊
@Skuller Metals well I like them alot ! I love all silver, I know I'm a year late on this video, lol, but I am so impressed with someone actually responding to me for once. I wish I'd of found your channel sooner man! If your interested I'd love to buy a coin. I'm also trying to get into the smelting hobby with my kiddo, she'd be extatic to receive something from a real UA-camr!
@@AMBASSADORHOFF Shoot me an email at Skullermetals@gmail.com and we'll work something out.
Isn’t borax pretty corrosive to graphite?
Not sure. Haven't used it too much up until now.
I'm just getting started on melting silver myself and just about to go get the mapp pro gas. But I now see MAPP Pro is not going to be enough. I need to get that smelting machine you got as well. But thanks for the video of going through the good and bad. I learned a bit. Especially not to let those hit my bench to burn it up. haha! SH@t Happens eh? But no, seriously, thanks for the video. I'm just wondering, are you wearing a mask with some 3M filters while doing this?
Thanks man. Yeah it's a bit of a learning curve. Mapp gas will melt lead, zinc and pewter if you want to do that first. Then yes all the other metals you'll need a forge. No I don't wear a respirator. Probably should.
Have you ever tried using clay and pouring a silver round?
No I haven't.
Thanks for the reply. BTW, the video was great!
@@scotts1356 I appreciate it Scott. So when you said clay, are you saying the silver is poured into a clay mold? Is that the same kind of process as using Petrobond sand?
@@SkullerMetals Yes. You use a 2 piece mold, so that both sides of the "coin" come out. Clay is basically the same thing as Petro Bond sand. But Petro Bond is more expensive.
@@scotts1356 Gotcha. Yeah I haven't done any 2-sided castings yet. Something I'd like to do eventually.
did you add the borax and mix it then scrape the impurities off the top? the sluge could be the garbage you should of scraped off the top. also if some of that was zinc or nickle it couod give you issues because i believe it would float on top. you can also try a little hotter temp. i think ur good up to 1100 but by the way it was rough pours inthe beginning with the top of the batch leads me too believe its because of alag on top or accidentally using zinc or nickle. it also could be the 7.5% of the sterling that is nickle tin or copper floating to the top. try mixing it really good
Good thoughts. Yeah, after adding Borax I stirred it with a graphite stick and all the junk stuck to it. As it turns out, the biggest issue was that I hadn't heated up the mold nearly enough so it was freezing instantly. The more I poured the hotter the mold got and the better the pours got.
I can see why you use the other furnace now.
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Thanks Jason!
Heat your molds more should be 400 f I found pouring on the floor rather than at waist level is better and give your self room you didn’t have much s-ace between you and your work area you were having to be careful not hitting camera etc give your self Heepz of room makes for nice steady pours! Keep it up!
Thanks.
That little “heh heh” when you dropped a spoon in there was my favorite part. The reason being, I did the exact same thing when you did. It was awesome.
Noooo... not the small spoon... those sell for double-triple silver price...
EDIT: like for all of your struggle... My struggle is ahead, I collected some silver and going to purify and pour... looking for advice...
This will help me much...
Yes I was thinking not enough heat. and more borax. but turned out well.
Barstool ✊
Did u buy sterling 925 babycup
Yeah most of that I got in an auction.
It's never to late to give up......
i cast hotter 1020 and it works just fine!
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better coat the graphite Crucible with boric acid
I read mold should be about melt temperature
You got it. I learned that the hard way, but nice to figure it out eventually.
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Those flower spoon fork are worth about 400 bucks know that you smelt before you devalue it but over all good video
$400 is a bit inflated IMO. Usually old and decorative flatware is about 50%-100% above spot silver price. But its all good people like this guy just makes the stuff more valuable down the road
Value is in the eye of the beholder and the beholder wants to make coins 🖤
Wow this is painful to watch..
@@truwwapriazuw1345 I love how you put this.
Metal has more value by weight to most people.
Naw, that's the first video of pouring I have watched I'm sure you got it down pat I will watch more
I found in this one that sterling is much tougher to pour than copper. But yeah I figured it out.
Practice makes perfect. FYI, what you have produced are not coins, but Silver Rounds and or Bars
Thanks Jerry. And yes...I didn't catch that. Being a stacker I'm putting myself in a silver timeout! 😁
Apparently he had no clue that the time and effort was of value only to other clueless people.
An extremely wise observation. Thank you.
Arent you supposed to strike the coin? Less piur? I know nothing btw
You mean stamp it?
Ok Favorite episode 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼My middle name is Sterling 😆😆😆Shit you not.
No shit? How good is that? If you were born on 9/25 I'd really freak out.
@@SkullerMetals 👍🏼👍🏼🤣🤣Your safe 11/3
im no professional but you can pour much better coins if you raise your temp to 1020
Well, once the metal is molten.....it's molten. I found during this pour that the key part of it was making sure the molds were as hot as possible. The more I poured and failed it just kept making the molds hotter. I appreciate the comment. Cheers!
are you going to chemically like purify it more down to make it 999 pure
No I'm going to keep it at .925. Sterling may become a good item for barter at some point. I don't have the skill set to turn it into .999 anyway. Too many acids and other chemicals I don't want to be handling.
People who buy and sell gold and silver even if the item is worth more as a piece, they buy by weight. If I were him, I would put 9.99% pure silver 24 pure gold. Hold on to your silver coins. The gold and silver are a good investments to buy and sell things.
I agree 100%!
Do you sell your creations and if so do you have a store or website
Yes I've sold many pieces, but I dont have a store. I usually sell them as they're made. I need to figure out how to create a store. I'll look into that.
@@SkullerMetals yes that'd be awesome I've bought from sellers off of ebay maybe for starters. Reach out to other coin or smelter content creators you'd be surprised how many would give you awesome advice. Good luck
Maybe watch a video or two on investment casting r sand casting because you are dng the cmetel wronge and with a the impurities you should be using a bit of borax
Clam like molds would yeild you a better result, or failing that make a sheet of silver and stamp out the individual bullion coins.
Not to sound critical but your method here is on the dangerous side.
I don't know of any sources for clam like molds. Some people achieve similar results by doing a sandcasting.
What about the method was dangerous?
I think he skipped the pouring class.
Is that what you think?
have you tried this with a microwave?
No I haven't. The only thing worth melting in a microwave would be the aluminum windings in the transformer, which wouldn't be worth the time with aluminum being so cheap. Microwave actually have very little value.
Why borax?
Removes contaminants from the metal. If you watch any gold or silver melt vids they're always using a flux, Borax being a good one.
If at first you don’t succeed . Try try try try try try try try try again. 😅
You got that right. 🤪
You need better grips!!!
Please please don't use gloves when using any high speed turning drills laths, bench sanders, bench wheels. You will break all your fingers wrist be and possibly elbow. Gloves is no no on any high rpm wheels
I should Correct myself and that is on any turning mechanism even if slow e.g pedestal drill. Anything of nature
Thanks. I hadn't heard that before but I appreciate you mentioning it. I suppose it's better to lose a little skin than ripping up your hand, huh?
@@SkullerMetals Exactly... that's the safest option :)
You need less coffee and steady hands
Looks like pewter not silver.
Disliked video due to poster not giving a fuck what the audience says.
do yourself a favor and use some of that silver to get yourself a good camera you will thank me for it later I promise!!!
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Wow this is painful to watch. Yikes
It is actually not sterling silver ... Dteling silver is 92.5% pure ... Tuff that you have is 80%
Why would you say 80%? It was all sterling.
I'm well aware that sterling is .925.
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