Does anyone melt their own gold or silver?

[Beachkid23]

Well we tried one poor actually to my neighbor and I. The first one was better but it got really cold in between the second one and drop outside felt almost like 8° And we had a hard time keeping the stuff warm but this is what we came out with. One what looks like a turtle with his head on the water. I'll have to redo them it's warm but it's 6.5 ounces I think it was like four silver spoons.







I will try again on a warmer day

 

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[markmopar]

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[Beachkid23]

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Thanks, I'll check it out! I have to figure out what is wrong with the furnace. It was at 1500 then dropped in temp to 900 with the Lid closed. I figured it should have stayed at the temperature for more than a half hour.

 

[gunsil]

Put borax in with the stuff you're going to melt. Also heat your mold and apply borax to the mold. You will need to get the mold over 1,000 degrees F to do so, but the hot mold will allow better forming of your bars. This can be done with a MAP gas or Bernzomatic torch. Do this on an asbestos sheet or firebrick. It acts a a flux and keeps the black oxide from forming and your bars will come out nice and shiny. Boil the bars in hot water to remove the flux. Sterling that has soldered joints such as much jewelry has may not be marked sterling by law once it is melted together since the solder, even though it is silver solder will not assay out to .925. I am a jewelry maker, and I get a decent price for my clean (unsoldered) scrap, but scrap with solder from failed pieces gets very little in return since it needs to then be re-refined to pure silver and re-alloyed back to sterling. This applies to gold also. Most people will not buy home made silver bars for this reason since most home melters just put any old busted up silver pieces in the melt. I surely would not buy home made silver or gold bars.

 

[DirtyHowi]

i'd buy em, at 60% of spot, no more though. since i have to re-refine it anyway (which i would do regardless). unless it comes from APMEX somewhere similar marked at .999 it gets refined...twice.

 

[Beachkid23]

i'd buy em, at 60% of spot, no more though. since i have to re-refine it anyway (which i would do regardless). unless it comes from APMEX somewhere similar marked at .999 it gets refined...twice.

Well what about these ones?

 

[DigginDownUnder]

I've always dreamed of getting a dinner plate sized, silver coin minted with a silhouette of my head on it, made from the all the silver I find, hahaha

 

[DirtyHowi]

Well what about these ones?

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those almost look like lead in the pics. which i could still use to make bullets, if acid tested silver then yea. (easy to tell just by the "ting" when you rap em together), silver makes beautiful music.

 

[theekman]

A bunch of scrap wighted sterling. By far the ugliest one ive ever made, was trying out a new mold idea. It will get remelted another day

 

[Beachkid23]

<img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1082392"/> A bunch of scrap wighted sterling. By far the ugliest one ive ever made, was trying out a new mold idea. It will get remelted another day

Well at least it's the right color. Mine look like dirt

 

[DirtyHowi]

try borax and preheating your mold before you pour, the borax acts as flux and can be boiled off in water.

 

[theekman]

Well at least it's the right color. Mine look like dirt

Mine look like urs do, then i take a brush to it