Cast sterling bars

[Beachkid23]

I saw a post on here before about someone casting their own bars. I took some jewelry to a friend of ours was a jeweler and asked him if he could melt sterling down into bars. This is what I got. He charged me. $10 to make them. They are marked sterling.

 

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[inspectorgadget]

This has what exactly to do with garage sales? I think your post belongs elsewhere unless you got them at a garage sale which you already said you didn't.

 

[Beachkid23]

Sorry

 

[Beachkid23]

It's all junk jewelry from yard sales. How do I delete it?

 

[CladSpends2]

I don't have a problem with this being here. The jewelry came from garage sales, no harm done, I have done a little of this myself. Post on, Beachkid!!


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[The Boots]

Looks good.

 

[inspectorgadget]

It's all junk jewelry from yard sales. How do I delete it?

No need to delete it, you didn't originally say they were made from garage sale found jewelry! They are cool bars!

 

[Omega]

I just bought a torch, molds, crucibles, chemicals, stamps, and everything else to cast my bars. I'll let you guys know how they turn out

 

[war-digs-it]

That's a good way to keep room in the safe... just don't keel over having left them laying around, your relatives may think they are junk metal or garbage.

I think they would look dynamite all polished up or get some fake Spanish assayer markings added to it.

 

[Omega]

That's a good way to keep room in the safe... just don't keel over having left them laying around, your relatives may think they are junk metal or garbage.

I think they would look dynamite all polished up or get some fake Spanish assayer markings added to it.

Mine are gonna be mirrored I already bought everything for em haha

 

[war-digs-it]

Awesome, I want to make a cast of my winkie in silver...I got to save up a lot more first!

 

[Beachkid23]

I was told to use a large torch, but at $6 a bar to have them melted down, I'll just go to him. Maybe when my kids are more independent ill be able to have time for my own. There 7,6,2. So it may be awhile!

 

[inspectorgadget]

Awesome, I want to make a cast of my winkie in silver...I got to save up a lot more first!

2-3 oz's is not a lot of silver.... lol.. had to do it!

 

[inspectorgadget]

I was told to use a large torch, but at $6 a bar to have them melted down, I'll just go to him. Maybe when my kids are more independent ill be able to have time for my own. There 7,6,2. So it may be awhile!

It "MAY" be a while, no no it "WILL" be a while!

 

[jerseyben]

Kind of cool I suppose. To be honest, I dont really see the point but it is still kind of cool. Enjoy your bars.

 

[gunsil]

When one melts down scrap jewelry and it includes chains or any jewelry that has been made with soldered joints it should not be marked sterling since it will no longer assay out at a true 925. I make a lot of sterling jewelry and when I sell my scraps and or mistakes back to the supplier they pay a lot less for soldered pieces than clean pieces since any silver that has been soldered has to be re-refined and alloyed before it can be sold as sterling. Nobody who knows the score will pay full sterling prices for home made ingots due to this fact. One doesn't at all make their melted down jewelry more valuable by making such bars, and it is actually illegal to mark such bars of scrap as sterling since it will not assay out at 925. It is OK if all the pieces were cast sterling, but if there are soldered pieces in the batch stamping them sterling is in fact a misrepresentation. American made jewelry that is constructed with solder is legally marked sterling but once such pieces are melted it is not. English solder constructed jewelry has to assay 925 with the solder so they need to use a higher grade of silver to start or include enough 999 in the construction to balance out the solder so the piece if melted still assays out at 925.

 

[Sawyer]

Let's start a petition and get him thrown in jail! Wrong forum, stupid to make bars, and possible wrong stamps! Sounds like a hardened criminal to me!

 

[Omega]

Pretty good for first pore

 

[Rawhide]

It is estimated that 30% or more is marked wrong. But its a great post.

 

[Omega]

It is estimated that 30% or more is marked wrong. But its a great post.

Lol how so?