let's see what happens if we hand-carve with a screwdriver our own mold
Hey everybody its Rob with Rob finds treasure and I felt like having a little
fun today and making my own little project so I have this old 2 ounce mold
that I purchased online about a few months ago and it's poured a lot of my
bars this is a 925 sterling bar that I used to melt some of my old jewelry it's
2.4 ounces so it's a few ounces heavy so I figured heck let me try to carve some
rft initials into a bar I know it's kind of rudimentary but I think it gives it
some character all I used was a small screwdriver there's all of the shavings
and I figured the rft will take up some of the space some of the silver will
fall in there and since this bar is not an even bar because it's two point four
ounces versus 2.0 I figured maybe that little bit of extra silver will fill in
the mold and give me a nice 2.4 ounce bar with my Rob finds treasure on it it
doesn't look bad at this angle I had to make it reverse I took a white chalk
marker and wrote rft where I wanted it and then I proceeded with slowly edging
it out with this screwdriver took me about an hour first time ever trying it
man it's tough on the hands they're really tired right now but like I was
saying it doesn't look that bad at this distance or the way that it came out
however I probably need to sand it but I still want to see what it comes out
first and foremost so that I can continue to work on if it needs some
fine-tuning well it might need more than fine-tuning
but you know anyway I'm gonna start with this 925 sterling bar and even though I
have an electric furnace I'm not gonna set it up yet because I don't have a
safe place to set it up i stuff to get that done but I gotta clean some areas
out of my garage first but long story short I'm not going to show you the poor
this video because I don't know how the first one's going to come out as far as
what the rf2 will look like but I promise you this no matter what it comes
out like I will show you the final result we're gonna be using the
blowtorch and a crucible method for now and I'll be back once I've got this bar
poured and we take a look at the final product so using a pretty rudimentary
setup my crucible and my mat Pro gas torch along with my rft bulb
I just finished pouring it I do all my own polishing by hand so I used some
poor steel wool some finer steel wool a wire brush as well as some wet sandpaper
and this is what it came out like a
little bit high on that F I got to knock off a little bit of slag there but I
just hand polished it pretty good and it looks pretty good I do see that I need
to tighten up maybe a little bit on the AR and the t's not as strong as I'd like
so I can fine-tune that as well but you know what for a first time pork on a
mold that I hand carved with the screwdriver I think it came out pretty
good let me know your guys thoughts below I'd love to hear your thoughts if
I tighten this up is this something you guys would be interested in a hand
carved hand polished silver bar again this has some slag because it is 925
sorry these little borax and you got to knock that out and I don't have a
tumbler so everything I have to do is literally hand polishing it took me with
the crucible and the gas about 10 minutes to get it to where it was
horrible it all poured out pretty smooth and then about another 15 minutes with a
wire brush and some steel wool and some sandpaper to kind of polish it up a
little bit yeah I'm pretty happy with it and the bar came out pretty even because
that extra point for filled in the slots right there the letters all right can't
wait to get my furnace kicked in gear and get some more custom molds for some
of those custom logos that everyone designed for me but in the meantime I
wanted to go ahead and just hand carved my own and see what they come out like
so there you have it everyone why not have a little project we're not done
with this mold like I said I can tell by the design I want to tighten up some of
the letters maybe deepen a little bit of that T in the base of the AR but but I'm
pretty excited an hour worth of work on a mold
another 30 minutes between heating the silver up pouring it and polishing it we
got a pretty good little bar only thing left to do really
and I'll probably stamp it on the side it's a 925 silver bar so we got to make
sure that no one confused it with a 999 since it is sterling silver hopefully
you enjoyed this little project that I decided to film today if you did I'd
appreciate a thumbs up and as always everyone happy hunting thanks for
watching and stack that silver
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