925 hand poured bar for @jbcoin

Hello all, a little while back @jbcoin asked if I would pour him a bar with his 925 scrap. I haven’t poured Sterling that much but I was up for the challenge. Here is what he sent me.

I got it all chopped up and in the furnace let’s get this started.

What I did first was poured it into little bars to try and clean some of the impurities from the metal. After pouring the little bars I tumbled them. Here’s what they look like.

Then I made up a mold that I routed into Oak.

After burning out the mold I poured the bar again and this is what we came up with. It had a lot of impurities on the back of it.

I wasn’t happy with the last one so I wanted to try It again. The first pour in the wood mold can get a little crazy sometimes some shot flew out of the mold.

Let’s take a look at the first pour out of the last mold. This is the first time I got lines on the first pour. See how it is starting to look cleaner.

This is the last pour so we put it all in there. The back still looks a little messed up but I will fix that right up.

After cleaning it up this is what we came up with 10.2 Sterling bar that I am comfortable to put my name on and stamp 925 on.


Well there you have it hope you enjoyed checking it out. Go over and check out @jbcoin if you haven’t already. Thanks @jbcoin!👍🏻.