Not impressed, those spoons and things are much more attractive and valuable then those “coins” of yours

@SkullerMetals

2 ай бұрын

Luckily I don't give a shit what you think, so there's that.

@SkullerMetals

2 ай бұрын

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.

@paralyzedsniper8052

26 күн бұрын

@@SkullerMetals Ignore that guy, this was really exciting to watch!! Great job

@xxvietblood

12 күн бұрын

😂😂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.

@schlomoshekelstein908

12 күн бұрын

@@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!

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

That's great feedback, I appreciate it. Thanks very much!!

@Shaktibhai7812

9 ай бұрын

Nice

Damn this is really cool! Love to see people get creative with precious metals

@SkullerMetals

10 сағат бұрын

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 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

I always enjoy the intros. Good job figuring out the process for great pours.

@timmahpotato945

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

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.

ill pay ya half of what its worth now lmao

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!

@SkullerMetals

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Fred!

Trial and error + patience and lots of heat = excellent pours. Well done, sir.

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that, thank you!

@Metal-Detecting-NC

Жыл бұрын

@@SkullerMetals you earned my subscription. Keep up the great work!

Thank you for a no bs video. Much appreciated

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

It's an art... hard to master, but you got it! Love the commentary! Nice pours!

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

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!!

AWESOME Howto!!!

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.

@SkullerMetals

6 ай бұрын

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.

Watching things melt always reminds me of the Terminator movie. 🤣

.925 silver one oz. at a time takes less than 10 min in a mikerowave!

Great job brother

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 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😊😊😊

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.

@kvgm

Жыл бұрын

It's fun.

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.

@SkullerMetals

9 ай бұрын

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.

you should really use some kind of mask that protects you from the fumes. nice video btw👍

Beautiful artworks.

@SkullerMetals

9 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Yes I was thinking not enough heat. and more borax. but turned out well.

BEAUTIFUL

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.

@SkullerMetals

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Scott. Yeah it definitely can be frustrating. Just keep trying and learning.

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.

@SkullerMetals

2 жыл бұрын

👍

Make sure you heat up the molds to 400-500 with a torch before pouring and add some borax flux

@Bluegrassriver8

2 ай бұрын

At 7:40 he grabbed the borax

My sterling always turns black even after I clean it does using borax really help that much?

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

@SkullerMetals

11 ай бұрын

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!

Nice job! What is the apparatus you used to melt everything? Was it Propane powered

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. It's an electric forge. Good for silver and sterling.

@Bluegrassriver8

2 ай бұрын

@@SkullerMetals I like that electric forge. How hot can you set it because I see people commenting make it hotter?

@SkullerMetals

2 ай бұрын

@@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.

Where did you find all this sterling silver?

@Bluegrassriver8

2 ай бұрын

He visited his grandmother and took it. Kidding. I'm curious where all that came from too.

how much is the portable smelter that you are using?.

Waaaaaaaay HOTTEEEEEEER!!!!

Wow those are nice!

@SkullerMetals

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Trent!

Why is all this, what purpose and beauty is there in this?😀

@SkullerMetals

2 ай бұрын

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder my friend.

Try melting just enough to fill the mould

"wonder who's rich mouth that one was in" 😁

Have you ever tried using clay and pouring a silver round?

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

No I haven't.

@scotts1356

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reply. BTW, the video was great!

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

@@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?

@scotts1356

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

@@scotts1356 Gotcha. Yeah I haven't done any 2-sided castings yet. Something I'd like to do eventually.

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!

Does the consistency issue have anything to do with the purity?

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

No, I just didn't have the molds hot enough. Once I poured into them several times it got them much hotter.

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.

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

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.

irregardless...they came out awesome. I got to try melting silver someday

Awesome

@SkullerMetals

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

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...

That’s cool

what kind of furnace is that I saw one similar from Amazon?

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

It's called a "ToAuto". Does a nice job.

Really nice work shop you ave there. Good work as well, thanks for great videos here and I wish you all the best

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mario!

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

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

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.

Naw, that's the first video of pouring I have watched I'm sure you got it down pat I will watch more

@SkullerMetals

8 ай бұрын

I found in this one that sterling is much tougher to pour than copper. But yeah I figured it out.

👍

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!

@SkullerMetals

4 ай бұрын

Thanks.

Interesting

@SkullerMetals

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! And thanks for watching. Cheers!!

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.

@SkullerMetals

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks!

Hello, new viewer, and subber! Do you sell any of your finished sterling?

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I did sell the pieces that I poured except for a couple. I don't melt it very often.

@AMBASSADORHOFF

Жыл бұрын

@Skuller Metals do u happen to have an ebay store or do u just sell to friends and such?

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

@@AMBASSADORHOFF No Ebay store. Just sold to friends so far. I didn't really do it thinking people would want it. 😊

@AMBASSADORHOFF

Жыл бұрын

@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 KZreadr!

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

@@AMBASSADORHOFF Shoot me an email at Skullermetals@gmail.com and we'll work something out.

It's never to late to give up......

i cast hotter 1020 and it works just fine!

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?

@SkullerMetals

6 ай бұрын

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.

Isn’t borax pretty corrosive to graphite?

@SkullerMetals

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure. Haven't used it too much up until now.

Did u buy sterling 925 babycup

@SkullerMetals

10 ай бұрын

Yeah most of that I got in an auction.

Barstool ✊

👏👏

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jason!

If at first you don’t succeed . Try try try try try try try try try again. 😅

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

You got that right. 🤪

I can see why you use the other furnace now.

Arent you supposed to strike the coin? Less piur? I know nothing btw

@SkullerMetals

6 ай бұрын

You mean stamp it?

Practice makes perfect. FYI, what you have produced are not coins, but Silver Rounds and or Bars

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jerry. And yes...I didn't catch that. Being a stacker I'm putting myself in a silver timeout! 😁

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

better coat the graphite Crucible with boric acid

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.

🙏😎👍

im no professional but you can pour much better coins if you raise your temp to 1020

@SkullerMetals

4 ай бұрын

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!

Those flower spoon fork are worth about 400 bucks know that you smelt before you devalue it but over all good video

@billlai3545

Жыл бұрын

$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

@truwwapriazuw1345

Жыл бұрын

Value is in the eye of the beholder and the beholder wants to make coins 🖤

@JayJay-bn1np

Жыл бұрын

Wow this is painful to watch..

@GTFBITK

Жыл бұрын

​@@truwwapriazuw1345 I love how you put this.

@ironleaf88

Жыл бұрын

Metal has more value by weight to most people.

Apparently he had no clue that the time and effort was of value only to other clueless people.

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

An extremely wise observation. Thank you.

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.

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

I agree 100%!

Ok Favorite episode 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼My middle name is Sterling 😆😆😆Shit you not.

@SkullerMetals

2 жыл бұрын

No shit? How good is that? If you were born on 9/25 I'd really freak out.

@patricks.hafersr.8723

2 жыл бұрын

@@SkullerMetals 👍🏼👍🏼🤣🤣Your safe 11/3

I read mold should be about melt temperature

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

You got it. I learned that the hard way, but nice to figure it out eventually.

I think he skipped the pouring class.

@SkullerMetals

8 ай бұрын

Is that what you think?

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.

@SkullerMetals

2 ай бұрын

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?

have you tried this with a microwave?

@SkullerMetals

4 ай бұрын

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.

are you going to chemically like purify it more down to make it 999 pure

@SkullerMetals

2 жыл бұрын

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.

Do you sell your creations and if so do you have a store or website

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

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.

@fitznutz

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Why borax?

@SkullerMetals

4 ай бұрын

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.

You need better grips!!!

You need less coffee and steady hands

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

@mraduck-xc5jl

Жыл бұрын

I should Correct myself and that is on any turning mechanism even if slow e.g pedestal drill. Anything of nature

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

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?

@mraduck-xc5jl

Жыл бұрын

@@SkullerMetals Exactly... that's the safest option :)

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!!!

kzread.info/dash/bejne/p6lkqrGdoZrQis4.html

Looks like pewter not silver.

@berthachipp3478

11 ай бұрын

Disliked video due to poster not giving a fuck what the audience says.

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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%

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

Why would you say 80%? It was all sterling.

@SkullerMetals

Жыл бұрын

I'm well aware that sterling is .925.

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