Silver seeker. Always great watching. I too am a novice at Smelting silver. A couple of tricks I learned were used a bunch of Borax when smelting sterling (It keeps the silver molten longer)and When pouring use a hot torch pointed on the silver. Keep up the good work
You are having cold pour issues, the graphite mold itself is drawing the heat out of the metal too fast. Recommendation is to use oxy-acc or oxy-propane to heat the mold to a dull cherry red before you pour to get a much better and complete casting before the metal cools to the point of no longer flowing and leaving the "lumpy" effect. Also just before pouring introduce a dusting of borax or boric acid powder on top of the melt to help remove oxidation. For your quinching water disolve a little borax or boric acid to also help remove oxidation. These simple tips will improve your results considerably.
Hi SS, nice first try pouring sterling. Sterling typically contains copper to make it more durable. Copper melts at1984 degrees F and silver melts at 1763 degrees F, so the lumps in your pour tells us the kiln is not hot enough. also sprinkle borax in to clean the silver and use a carbon rod to pull out the impurities prior to the pour. also, the mold sinks heat into the brick quickly so fire brick would be a better choice to hold your mold and will not crack or splatter hot brick pieces around. lastly, the hotter the mold is the better the pour I use a second kiln to preheat the mold to a glowing red then a map gas torch to keep it hot before and during the pour. the Lazer is a great idea. thank for the show and pour on.
I would have heated to a bit higher temp on the furnace and kept a torch aimed at the trough of the crucible. I think you got a lumpy pour due to a lack of heat. Also use borax as mentioned by another comment. Still really cool though!
Love to see a sterling Silver cast mould pour into a Dragon or Eagle figure. That would be cool if you can find a clay sculpture artist to create the mould.
If you ever want to start melting / pouring, never use an Electric furnace, always go propane, you'll save such $ in the long run. Just some advise from years of smelting.
@@SilverSeeker np bud, just saying a set up like a Devil Forge with Propane, will give you a much nicer and cleaner pour. I always cringe watching those electric furnaces. Never know when those crucibles will fail and spill molten metal into your furnace. Be careful bud. Ditch the electric, and go propane. Much safer.
@Draylis64 again, I cant... there's literally nowhere for me to operate a propane furnace or I would for sure. I've no doubt your right btw, but gotta work with the room I have. I will say though that when I pour pure silver is comes out amazing, sterling is always a nightmare for me
@@SilverSeeker all good bud, I just don't think you understand how little space a Propane furnace takes. You can easily set up a propane furnace in your garage. I have one in mine. I have a 3 car garage. 2 cars in the garage and a devil forge in the 3rd. Just something to look into. Those electric furances are horrible. I'd never use one. Plus with a Devil Forge, you can make much bigger pours. I mainly melt Copper and make 5 pound bars.
Propane allows O2 saturation that leads to gas pockets marring the bottom of the pour. Also when doing inquartation for refining the propane requires much manual mixing of molten metal that seperates before you can pour the shot . The pulse inductiom bkends the metal clean and fast. .925 no O2 saturation issues. Tbs sipver can dpuble volume with O2 saturation in molten form. Not oxidation
the past two weeks i have been looking for scrap sterling to do exactly what you showed here. thank you for doing this. i am going to continue looking for scrap sterling so that i can make rounds and bars soon!
I wonder if you had an assistant with a blow Torch at the ready to heat up the mold. As you're pouring if I would make it solidify a little bit less as it fills the mold
9:45 My best advice for you is to go 100 to 150° hotter than you already are and then let it sit a little bit longer in a crucible when it's at temp. That's the one thing you got to be patient is just letting it get the fully temp and then it'll pour nice and easy
That bar looks so good. My stack at the moment just got going. My first lot was 5 one ounce rounds. This order I went with the 100 gram bars. Nice for barter. Until now my stack is silver coins from all over. Peace love & stardust. TomCat
Awesome job! They look very cool. As an FYI, keep in mind that a lot of jewelry is soldered together which has a lower silver content. That starts to make it tough to figure out the exact purity of the silver. You could throw a bit of fine silver into the next one to roughly account for it. Overall, pretty cool to watch and I liked learning about that laser.
U should of used pickling solution for the bars , or better yet should of used nitric acid to remove copper for sterling silver jewellery u had to get higher purity silver bars.
It’s the copper in the silver that makes it look like crap, there’s no way to go around it unless you wanna watch few SREETIPS vids and refine it to 999😊
It was 1150C, sterling melts at 950. Will another 50 make a difference? I could try it. For reference I pour pure silver at 1100c and it pours perfect every time.
@@SilverSeeker the cooling time is your main issue. Regardless of the "melt temp", sterling will cool quicker than .999 Your mold needs to be MUCH hotter. The graphite used in the mold draws much heat off the silver causing the silver to "cold cast" before it flows completely.
I think you did great Seeker! Silver pours nice and copper pours nice. But sterling is a bitch. Ive only tried pouring sterling once. Well the same batch almost ten times. Finally just settled with an ugly bar. Your lazer engraving and the logo are 💥 seriously. I love custom pour videos so bring us more!
A jeweller told me if you want a clean pour with Sterling that you have to melt it hotter than pure silver because of the copper . Sure the melting point might be 900 but if you don’t want that gluggy look you need to go hotter
So it's not 999 pure silver I take it but very interesting. Read some of the comments that seem to be helpful. I would go with a fire brick over a cement brick. Still a good video. So it's not 999 silver but like 90% so how does that sell?.
Sterling oxidizes because the copper. I make sterling coins and find a hot closed steel form to produce clean non oxidized silver. It really needs a good anerobic environment to pour clean. Anyone whose made sterling jewlery has dealt with fire scar ruining a piece durring a solder proccess becouse too mych heat not enpugh flux
the only thing is it was apart of history and once its destroyed its gone .. all the years and all the history ... but yeah just junk today 50 years a rare collectable
@@SilverSeeker Carson city coins in the case where just cumbersome .. till enough was gone and cracking parties taken effect now the cased ones are a bit more collectable
@WhiteRaven12773 CC Silfer Dollars and old broken jewelry are completely different things. The GSA dollars carry a small premium on the commons years, a bit more in the key years but nothing major. CC dollars are all low mintage, so regardless of whether or not they're in GSA packaging they still have value. Old broken jewelry, not so much.
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Silver seeker.
Always great watching.
I too am a novice at Smelting silver.
A couple of tricks I learned were used a bunch of Borax when smelting sterling (It keeps the silver molten longer)and When pouring use a hot torch pointed on the silver. Keep up the good work
You are having cold pour issues, the graphite mold itself is drawing the heat out of the metal too fast. Recommendation is to use oxy-acc or oxy-propane to heat the mold to a dull cherry red before you pour to get a much better and complete casting before the metal cools to the point of no longer flowing and leaving the "lumpy" effect. Also just before pouring introduce a dusting of borax or boric acid powder on top of the melt to help remove oxidation. For your quinching water disolve a little borax or boric acid to also help remove oxidation. These simple tips will improve your results considerably.
Hi SS, nice first try pouring sterling. Sterling typically contains copper to make it more durable. Copper melts at1984 degrees F and silver melts at 1763 degrees F, so the lumps in your pour tells us the kiln is not hot enough. also sprinkle borax in to clean the silver and use a carbon rod to pull out the impurities prior to the pour. also, the mold sinks heat into the brick quickly so fire brick would be a better choice to hold your mold and will not crack or splatter hot brick pieces around. lastly, the hotter the mold is the better the pour I use a second kiln to preheat the mold to a glowing red then a map gas torch to keep it hot before and during the pour. the Lazer is a great idea. thank for the show and pour on.
I've notice that other youtubers that pour silver, tend to have a map gas torch burning to keep the mold very hot.
I would totally love to see more videos like this one. 👍👍
Those things look awesome. That engraver would make some pretty cool coins with blank rounds
Love these sterling silver pours i have so much sterling scrap from years of hoarding it that i want to turn into a big bar
Wow SilverSeeker you do it all. That's a real nice bar!
I would have heated to a bit higher temp on the furnace and kept a torch aimed at the trough of the crucible. I think you got a lumpy pour due to a lack of heat. Also use borax as mentioned by another comment. Still really cool though!
That laser is awesome!
Love to see a sterling Silver cast mould pour into a Dragon or Eagle figure. That would be cool if you can find a clay sculpture artist to create the mould.
Fascinating video Seeker.
If you ever want to start melting / pouring, never use an Electric furnace, always go propane, you'll save such $ in the long run. Just some advise from years of smelting.
I don't have anywhere to use a propane furnace my friend my garage and work area is too small.
@@SilverSeeker np bud, just saying a set up like a Devil Forge with Propane, will give you a much nicer and cleaner pour. I always cringe watching those electric furnaces. Never know when those crucibles will fail and spill molten metal into your furnace. Be careful bud. Ditch the electric, and go propane. Much safer.
@Draylis64 again, I cant... there's literally nowhere for me to operate a propane furnace or I would for sure.
I've no doubt your right btw, but gotta work with the room I have.
I will say though that when I pour pure silver is comes out amazing, sterling is always a nightmare for me
@@SilverSeeker all good bud, I just don't think you understand how little space a Propane furnace takes. You can easily set up a propane furnace in your garage. I have one in mine. I have a 3 car garage. 2 cars in the garage and a devil forge in the 3rd. Just something to look into. Those electric furances are horrible. I'd never use one. Plus with a Devil Forge, you can make much bigger pours. I mainly melt Copper and make 5 pound bars.
Propane allows O2 saturation that leads to gas pockets marring the bottom of the pour. Also when doing inquartation for refining the propane requires much manual mixing of molten metal that seperates before you can pour the shot . The pulse inductiom bkends the metal clean and fast.
.925 no O2 saturation issues. Tbs sipver can dpuble volume with O2 saturation in molten form. Not oxidation
Awesome 😎😎😎😎💯
the past two weeks i have been looking for scrap sterling to do exactly what you showed here. thank you for doing this. i am going to continue looking for scrap sterling so that i can make rounds and bars soon!
I think it is fantastic and something that I would be interested to get into..
I wonder if you had an assistant with a blow Torch at the ready to heat up the mold. As you're pouring if I would make it solidify a little bit less as it fills the mold
THANKS FOR THE VIDEO
Sterling silver is an alloy composed by weight of 92.5% silver and 7.5% other metals, usually copper.
SICK DESIGN 😝🔥
really found video interesting and informative
Id imagine using the torch after the pour in the mold to remelt may make it settle better?
Ok… wow. That’s effing slick. I want one.
i loved this have you seen the video where a guy grows like alot of silver in a bucket i thought that was wicked cool
Hi Silver Seeker! That looks good.😎
I see ToAuto used this on their Facebook stream. Nice
I've subscribed to the new channel. I'm looking forward to seeing content there!
Kudos!!!
Nice SS emblem
Awesome video nice silver bar's that design was awesome and subscribe to your new channel thanks for sharing silver seeker
Looks like the necronomicon haha
Hi Seeker, this vlog was very interesting, thank you. The tools you use make it very easy to be creative.
My lightskinned brother that was CHOICE.
LOGO /LASER/TECHNIQUE, NICE.
Keep your touch on as your poring
Alsome show,cool bar. Good luck on the new channel
❤ Very interesting ❤
Man I wish I had some of these tools lol. I don't have enough silver yet to pour anyhow. Time to save for some new tools
9:45 My best advice for you is to go 100 to 150° hotter than you already are and then let it sit a little bit longer in a crucible when it's at temp. That's the one thing you got to be patient is just letting it get the fully temp and then it'll pour nice and easy
Nice "Book of the Dead from Evil Dead" look to that bar 😮😂
Try heating the mold more thoroughly. From the outside in. So it doesn’t act like a heat sink and cool your molten metal so quickly.
Will do thanks!
The finished bar looks awesome !!
That bar looks so good. My stack at the moment just got going. My first lot was 5 one ounce rounds. This order I went with the 100 gram bars. Nice for barter. Until now my stack is silver coins from all over. Peace love & stardust. TomCat
If you keep the heat on it as your pouring you'll get better results.
Awesome job! They look very cool. As an FYI, keep in mind that a lot of jewelry is soldered together which has a lower silver content. That starts to make it tough to figure out the exact purity of the silver. You could throw a bit of fine silver into the next one to roughly account for it. Overall, pretty cool to watch and I liked learning about that laser.
Gotta Love silver!
Great bar.
That’s killer! Great job!
I would refine it to at least 999 - laser look awesome
Nice
U should of used pickling solution for the bars , or better yet should of used nitric acid to remove copper for sterling silver jewellery u had to get higher purity silver bars.
Bit advanced for me but maybe in the future I'll try to learn how to do that :)
Very very nice !
when you re pour the other one maybe laser it with the design in silver and the out line in black kinda identical but not ?
I like the dragon on the side, but the other side could have been the eagle.
what was the weight loss after all of the lasering?
Yayyyy 🎉thank you!!!
Backup is gonna be a good channel !!
It’s the copper in the silver that makes it look like crap, there’s no way to go around it unless you wanna watch few SREETIPS vids and refine it to 999😊
Bring your temp up as well
It was 1150C, sterling melts at 950. Will another 50 make a difference? I could try it.
For reference I pour pure silver at 1100c and it pours perfect every time.
@@SilverSeeker the cooling time is your main issue. Regardless of the "melt temp", sterling will cool quicker than .999 Your mold needs to be MUCH hotter. The graphite used in the mold draws much heat off the silver causing the silver to "cold cast" before it flows completely.
like gold do you need to add anything to help separate the contamination?
thanks 👍
Try a Vibrating Tumbler for polishing.
Super interesting - and the bar looks great! Sad to hear the Ghost Monkey is going for a remelt... but that's the point to building your own.
I think you did great Seeker! Silver pours nice and copper pours nice. But sterling is a bitch. Ive only tried pouring sterling once. Well the same batch almost ten times. Finally just settled with an ugly bar. Your lazer engraving and the logo are 💥 seriously. I love custom pour videos so bring us more!
Love it! So cool.
Very cool.
Pretty cool Seeker! 👍
Laser work looks great but the bars look like crap
Yea that's why I was clear that sterling pours horrible for me. Pure silver pours great
I wonder how much the electricity cost is to melt that silver that you did
Rough looking bars,needs some smooth and shine!!
Great video ❤
Hello silver seeker
I want to get my wife into silver by making a custom round but I have no idea who to go to
Fun video
Wow!!!!
Borax and scrape the top it will get pureure
Pretty tpugh to smelt .925 up to .999 . It can be cuppel3d but you need a large cement lined crucible
You make me really really wish I was rich.
wish i had one of them 15:31 silver bars📡 you could use the laser to clean old coins 📡 maybe that would work l don't know 📡 get debris junk off them 📡
A jeweller told me if you want a clean pour with Sterling that you have to melt it hotter than pure silver because of the copper . Sure the melting point might be 900 but if you don’t want that gluggy look you need to go hotter
I was at 1150, next time I'll try 1200
Are you not using borax? I’m not an expert but I’m pretty sure that helps quite a bit
I absolutely enjoyed this @silverseeker !!! The video is awesome!!!!
♻️ Enjoy your show thanks for your time ♻️
♻️ Silver is good ♻️ just subscribed to your new channel ♻️
So it's not 999 pure silver I take it but very interesting. Read some of the comments that seem to be helpful. I would go with a fire brick over a cement brick. Still a good video. So it's not 999 silver but like 90% so how does that sell?.
Those are epic, how much to buy?
Looks to pour a lot like brass does in an open mold.
That is SOOOO COOL❤ I hope you're going to make a few to sell!!!
He has an auction coming up this coming Saturday so I’m thinking he will have some to auction off
just my opinion but first off, the size of the crucible is awfully small
Thats not the issue, pure silver pours perfectly, including 20oz bars
But copper melts much higher so the consistency takes a hit ?
Used to call that "making a cush"
A better way to clean sterling silver is jeweler's pickle it will eat thru all that black
Purity of the bar?
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Sterling oxidizes because the copper. I make sterling coins and find a hot closed steel form to produce clean non oxidized silver. It really needs a good anerobic environment to pour clean. Anyone whose made sterling jewlery has dealt with fire scar ruining a piece durring a solder proccess becouse too mych heat not enpugh flux
Sorry scale not fire scar .. its been 30 ywars since i made jewlery
Thanks for the info!!!
@@SilverSeeker thanks for the content!!! Love your trans contental price checks.
Looks more like a Yeti than a monkey.. ;)
the only thing is it was apart of history and once its destroyed its gone .. all the years and all the history ... but yeah just junk today 50 years a rare collectable
It was old broken jewelry my friend.
@@SilverSeeker Carson city coins in the case where just cumbersome .. till enough was gone and cracking parties taken effect now the cased ones are a bit more collectable
@WhiteRaven12773 CC Silfer Dollars and old broken jewelry are completely different things. The GSA dollars carry a small premium on the commons years, a bit more in the key years but nothing major.
CC dollars are all low mintage, so regardless of whether or not they're in GSA packaging they still have value.
Old broken jewelry, not so much.
@@SilverSeeker all fair points .. and its your stuff free to do with as you please .. just saying .. never know
@@WhiteRaven12773 Fair enough you never know. If it was all complete good condition jewelry I'd agree with you for sure btw.
Keep heating the metal as you pour it.
The EAGLE and the SS ....NOT a good look dragon ..... (think 1940's Germany)
Doesn't even look close to the same stop
@@SilverSeeker okay, sorry, I just have some family history ...i see the world differently, very sorry ..I love your videos
@jake8077 I get it and no need to apologize. It was a horrible time in our history for sure.
Use this kiln outside...
It's an electric furnace, it's for inside.