Going to showcase my favorite poured silver!

in #steemsilvergold8 years ago

Since poured silver is all the rage recently I think it's time to bust open the display case and show of a few of my favorites.

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I don't have any of the really impressive full 3d pours, but that will change soon, I've been chatting with a few of the mafia boys ands girls and will be rectifying that soon.

I'm also going to take my time and give each a proper showcase so for today, I'm going to show off my very first peice of poured silver ever!

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This thing!

I still remember the day, it was my first day looking around YouTube and trying to figure out who was the silver people there and how it all worked, we were just staring Pheli Mint and it was part of our plan to also start a YouTube channel.

Well CanadianSilverSaver was the very first channel and person I found there and he was selling this thing. It was poured by John Masterson from Beaver Bullion and both the guys have since become great friends to Eli and I.

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It's just a chunk of silver poured into water. I now understand that often guys poured the molten silver into cold or ice water to make shot or tiny peices or grains that can be further weighted out so you can pour peices in whatever ounce count your planning, but if the water isn't cold enough and you pour a lot you get a glob like this.

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It really takes a cool shape with a lot of detail and depth, it looks so wild and natural. This one used to be much more wild, but I fortunately it's been at my bedside for over a year now and that means it had a few run ins with the kids or few accidents when's it's been knocked off its shelf. It used to have a bit of a tunnel and freestanding arch that kinda formed a heart, but alas it's kinda more just a chunk now.

If you do want to see it in its former glory, here's a post about it from like 5 months ago and a link to the unboxing video.

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Despite kind of mutalating it, time has also given it more character with the toning it is getting. It's started to take on some really rich gold and blueish tones in a lot of the deeper areas. I find it really brings out details more and makes it easier to see the deep features.

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Anyways if you like it, I'm sure you could ask your favorite metals mafia boy or gal, to drop some silver in some water for you! It's a great little curiosity or pieces to just stare into and get lost in when your in the need for some day dreaming!


Ps what's the rules about using the cool metals mafia banner? I mentioned you at the end does that count ;).

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@phelimint Yes I was Drooling all over my keyboard. No one can ever get tired of this once they have been bitten by the BUG.............

This is how bullets are made from lead. They were also poured into cold water

I really liked the bottom right of the first picture

I liked the boot.

Yeah, the boot looks like it belongs on a bolo-tie nice piece

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Looks super cool! Can't wait to get started so I can do some dope macro shots of nugs like that :)

Haha children - the end of all things nice.

I like that nugget so much!
The colors are amazing.
In your first picture it was the one i instantly staring at and then the whole post was on it!
Really awesome looking, is it possible to control when pourning into hot water like that? Could a bar be made to look the same?

P.S.
Good thing i dont own it as im wondering what it would look like after hit once with a sledge to flatten it out.
lol

Maybe you were a silver smith in a past life?

LOL
Could be why im suddenly so addicted to silver.
:D

I wonder if this could be done with silver...

For those that don't want to click the link, it's basically art made by pouring molten aluminum into an ant colony...

What a horrible end to the ants!

A more spectacular way to go than poisoning though.

Do they burn completely or are the corpses part of the art?

Not sure but I suspect if there are any, they are embedded inside the metal and aren't visible. An ant tomb of sorts I suppose.

Thanks for sharing :)

Most people find abandoned colonies for that work, no need to kill the ants....

Silver at what temperature 😁?
Nice post

I didn’t know silver did that in water.

Kids...

Thanks for sharing.

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