@@Elites-asthetic Hi. Sorry for such a belated reply! Are you making square wire with your tracks? If it’s too wide for the next track (which it pretty much always is), you can anneal the wire and run it through the same track along the alternate edge (as if on its side) to which you have been rolling (which will have formed a bit wider when rolling your top edge). Might have to do an update on this video to include such things.

Hi. Thank you for your interest. While this is a decent video of ours, cuttlefish casting is not the method we would advise. You’re better off sandcasting (both in general and for larger items) with delft clay. [see links below to the kind of thing that is better]. There are loads of good videos online showing how to use these. The problem you have with cuttlefish casting is that the mold you make is a one-time use thing, so if the casting doesn’t come out good, you’ve got to start again on another 2 pieces of cuttlefish. With the sandcasting method, you can just remove the burnt sand, and keep the rest for the next use. And of course your casting mold frames dont perish from the heat like cuttlefish does (which answers your 2nd question - no you can’t heating the cuttlefish because your flame would burn right through it). www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305461190958?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=jhwXVWLNT4C&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=hnEFy1azSnG&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305513287080?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=jhwXVWLNT4C&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=hnEFy1azSnG&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

9ct white gold easy solder panel.

Hi. Thanks for the comment. Whereabouts are you based? Drawing down wire is quite a lengthy process, so by the time you’ve taken into account shipping fees and time taken to produce the wire, it would probably be a lot cheaper to buy readily made silver wire. Unless of course it is because the silver you want melting down is sentimental and you really want that metal in your jewellery. What is it you are wanting the wire for?

Thanks for the comment. Either way is fine. Filing the end to a point is a little more accurate than hitting with a hammer. You could easily hammer a bit further up than you wanted and go thinner than the desired thickness. To each their own I suppose with that part.

Thanks for the comment, Risto. We don’t have a full round roller for our mills either, so when making round wire we draw square wire, then pull through the round drawplates to get it round. We do have a drawing bench now, which makes it a lot easier, but still do it manually from time to time. File the end of the half round wire round, so it is thin enough to show a good amount through the draw plate for you to pull. Just make sure you anneal the wire every 2 or 3 times you draw it through, to make it easier to pull and to not damage the resulting round wire. If triangular is an option, it will probably be easier to draw from that into round than half round. See around 04:20 of this video for us filing it round and drawing it down. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZ16ecV6rLC1aKM.html

@@morrisbywaterlimited Thank you for reply. I´ll try first with square.

Thanks for the comment, King Ra. It's Borax Flux Powder, which cleans impurities and also speeds up the melting process. It's usually about £8 to £15.

It is possible, but very difficult with a microweld unit. Where abouts in the cavity are you pouring the metal into (i.e. at the nearside, in the middle, at the far side etc.)? A lot of jewellers nowadays have much more powerful and hotter torches, which cover wider areas than the microwelds we use - for the services we mostly carry out, we've not found it necessary to go bigger ourselves.

Hope you were able to make your ring ok!

Came out perfect first time :) but I posted for the lost wax carving and delft clay method

Hi there. Thanks for your comment. The Durston rolling mill can roll square, flat and d-shaped, but not fully circular wire. As you say, this is drawn through round drawplates after rolling square wire. We have a Durston table top drawbench for this, but a more affordable (but harder work) method is securing drawplates in a secured vice and pulling through manually. Because the customer wanted a d-shaped bangle, using round drawplates wasn’t necessary for this piece :) The drawbench does feature in this video, around the 4:20 mark: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZ16ecV6rLC1aKM.html

@@morrisbywaterlimited thanks for the fast reply. once you have rolled the wire square you must take it within around 1mm tolerance of the final size you want it to be before rounding fully off in draw plates? I am manually using drawplates and after four holes it just gets stuck I suppose I need more strength aha or to roll it down smaller in the mill then finish in the drawplate and vice? I am using sterling silver manual vice draw plate and plier technique in vice is used after you have it to the thickness but just want to draw it through to round it off? thanks!

Hi, Jean. Oh great, you saw it without me even needing to send a link. Wishing you and your family all the best, from everyone at Morris Bywater Ltd ♥️

Thank you very much. Yes, we have a draw bench now, but this is a very effective method if an expensive resource like that isn’t accessible/affordable. Draw benches do have their drawbacks in that (unless you’ve got a really long one) the length of wire you can draw is limited. But then if you need it to be even longer, you can just use the plate and vice technique to go further manually. Thanks very much for watching.

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Pepe Mercado Hi. This could be down to impurities in the silver melt. When melting down your silver, add a bit of Borax flux powder when the metal has liquified, which helps to draw out impurities. Then when rolling the silver, it’s important to anneal the metal frequently. You should be heating your metal up almost to melting point after a handful of turns through the rolling mill, in order to keep the molecules loose. It takes a bit of practice and experience to know how many times the metal can pass through the rolling mill before it needs annealing again. It gets a bit tedious having to constantly warm up your metal, cool it in acid then water, then back to the rolling mill, but it prevents the molecules becoming too rigid, which results in cracked and brittle metal.

Annealing is crucial to forming doesn't mean it's not real gold or silver. It means that it has been work hardened and wants to stay in place or keep the form it has taken shape of.

Blowtorch to light pink and dunk, work on it some more until it resists changing shape and repeat the process. This anneals the work hardened silver or gold.

KrisRaps Hi. Yeah, all the items were hallmarked in the UK at 9ct. We pour borax flux into the crucible (a shot of the process is absent in this video, but present in some of our others) at various stages of the melting to draw out any impurities.

@@morrisbywaterlimited Well, You Will Not Get Out Silver Or Copper From The Gold With Borax, Only Non-Metal Inpurities. A lot of Rings Are Hallmarked At 14 While They Are 9

I'm fairly certain this guy knows exactly what the frig he is doing

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