jayboat

Got my first bit of gold today with my gs.be order. 1/10th britannia. Now i have finished off my silver needs for this year until 18's are released, gonna start a wee gold stack to fill the time  Should i keep it in the mint pack are put it into a capsule? Does it even matter?
Also picked up 1 of those big ben coins and mix of a few others. Not sure how that series will pan out, should be a nice. I only got the 1 cause im not paying 24 euro for a coin that will milk up. 

 

Got my first bit of gold today with my gs.be order. 1/10th britannia. Now i have finished off my silver needs for this year until 18's are released, gonna start a wee gold stack to fill the time  Should i keep it in the mint pack are put it into a capsule? Does it even matter?
Also picked up 1 of those big ben coins and mix of a few others. Not sure how that series will pan out, should be a nice. I only got the 1 cause im not paying 24 euro for a coin that will milk up. 

 

Got my first bit of gold today with my gs.be order. 1/10th britannia. Now i have finished off my silver needs for this year until 18's are released, gonna start a wee gold stack to fill the time  Should i keep it in the mint pack are put it into a capsule? Does it even matter?
Also picked up 1 of those big ben coins and mix of a few others. Not sure how that series will pan out, should be a nice. I only got the 1 cause im not paying 24 euro for a coin that will milk up. 

 

Got my first bit of gold today with my gs.be order. 1/10th britannia. Now i have finished off my silver needs for this year until 18's are released, gonna start a wee gold stack to fill the time  Should i keep it in the mint pack are put it into a capsule? Does it even matter?
Also picked up 1 of those big ben coins and mix of a few others. Not sure how that series will pan out, should be a nice. I only got the 1 cause im not paying 24 euro for a coin that will milk up. 

 

Got my first bit of gold today with my gs.be order. 1/10th britannia. Now i have finished off my silver needs for this year until 18's are released, gonna start a wee gold stack to fill the time  Should i keep it in the mint pack are put it into a capsule? Does it even matter?
Also picked up 1 of those big ben coins and mix of a few others. Not sure how that series will pan out, should be a nice. I only got the 1 cause im not paying 24 euro for a coin that will milk up. 

 

Got my first bit of gold today with my gs.be order. 1/10th britannia. Now i have finished off my silver needs for this year until 18's are released, gonna start a wee gold stack to fill the time  Should i keep it in the mint pack are put it into a capsule? Does it even matter?
Also picked up 1 of those big ben coins and mix of a few others. Not sure how that series will pan out, should be a nice. I only got the 1 cause im not paying 24 euro for a coin that will milk up. 

 

Got my first bit of gold today with my gs.be order. 1/10th britannia. Now i have finished off my silver needs for this year until 18's are released, gonna start a wee gold stack to fill the time  Should i keep it in the mint pack are put it into a capsule? Does it even matter?
Also picked up 1 of those big ben coins and mix of a few others. Not sure how that series will pan out, should be a nice. I only got the 1 cause im not paying 24 euro for a coin that will milk up. 

 

Some fractional pickups
in my new capsules 

Number 85 has arrived safely with me today. Very well packaged. The finer details from the tissue paper to hand signed letter ooze quality. This is my  first hand poured bar and first 1 oz bar also. Seemed to have got a good weight. 
Thank you to Backyard and Chris for comming up this idea. I look forward to future releases  

Number 85 has arrived safely with me today. Very well packaged. The finer details from the tissue paper to hand signed letter ooze quality. This is my  first hand poured bar and first 1 oz bar also. Seemed to have got a good weight. 
Thank you to Backyard and Chris for comming up this idea. I look forward to future releases  

Received my first hand poured and first 1oz silver bar today. Very happy and thank you BYB. Looking forward to future releases. 

Received my first hand poured and first 1oz silver bar today. Very happy and thank you BYB. Looking forward to future releases. 

Here is some interesting facts about these bars, by the numbers....
The Silver Forum Bars in numbers
Initial mintage: 171
Estimated mintage: 200 (or 250 depending on demand)
Project duration: 2 weeks planning, 7 weeks production
Weight: 1 ozt (min)
Purity: 99.9% Fine Silver
Average weight: 32.5 grams
Lightest bar: 31.12 grams
Heaviest bar: 34.5 grams
x220 bars poured
x5 graphite melting crucibles totalling 85 grams of burnt off graphite
x40 rejected (because of weight or quality)
x180 bars sent for hallmarking
x1 undergone destructive testing
x8 “mint error” bars (miss stamped by me) – bound for the melting pot!
15 individual stamps per bar
Total individual stamps: 2,565
Number of people purchased bars: 76 (so far!)
x7 Gold Premium Members
x40 Premium Members
x29 Standard Members
x7 Countries over 3 continents!
x5 US States & x30 UK Counties
~60,000 cm square of brown wrapping paper
~40 meters of Brown Packaging tape
60,000 cm Square of Bubble wrap
Average distance each bar has travelled by post (including hallmarking): 750 miles
Longest distance to be travelled by any bar: 10,000 miles (to Australia!)

171 bars came back all OK!
Actually they only drill tested one of them, the other 8 are all "Mint Error" bars as I messed up the stamping!
So 171 bars...6 stamps per bar...1080 stamps done today...
Fingers are sore but my back is the killer, hunched over the stamping block for 4 hours ain't good for the spine...
In fact, just going to go unzip my spine and have a well earned beer! 

I reserve 420 if you get there  
Was just looking and there are around 1600 members to the forum so far. Maybe 1200 at most are active logging in once a week are more. The fact that you can sell 150 of these with i guess most people buying 1 is quite an achievement. Just goes to show that quality over quantity of members make all the difference. 

I reserve 420 if you get there  
Was just looking and there are around 1600 members to the forum so far. Maybe 1200 at most are active logging in once a week are more. The fact that you can sell 150 of these with i guess most people buying 1 is quite an achievement. Just goes to show that quality over quantity of members make all the difference. 

I reserve 420 if you get there  
Was just looking and there are around 1600 members to the forum so far. Maybe 1200 at most are active logging in once a week are more. The fact that you can sell 150 of these with i guess most people buying 1 is quite an achievement. Just goes to show that quality over quantity of members make all the difference. 

The bar on its own looks like a wood grain effect with the cooling lines.

@BackyardBullion I can wait no worrys. Im not really a bar person, bigger stuff interests me but i never buy any. I own a 10oz scottsdale stacker and a 500g baird and co bar. This forum bar will be the my 1st 1 oz bar and 1st handpoured item also.
2018 is only round the corner. Its nice watching your art evovle

@BackyardBullion I can wait no worrys. Im not really a bar person, bigger stuff interests me but i never buy any. I own a 10oz scottsdale stacker and a 500g baird and co bar. This forum bar will be the my 1st 1 oz bar and 1st handpoured item also.
2018 is only round the corner. Its nice watching your art evovle

Hmm - I may have to quit the day job at this rate...
I can take any milky silver now and make you 2.5oz pieces but not bigger until I upgrade my furnace later this year.
2018 there will hopefully be bigger bars on offer!
 

@BackyardBullion Thats a very good idea, it will save you alot of headache. 
I think your gonna be busy anyway . Im waiting for the bigger bars to come and for us to do some trade off for milky silver. I no thats pie in the sky at the minute for you, but its something for me to look forward too.  Infact i reserve your lowest numbers for 5oz and 10oz bars, lol. 
Thanks for update bud. 

You know what...sod it
I AM GOING TO MAKE 150 OF THESE BARS!!!
#111 is yours @arko66
NUMBERS 101 - 150 (except 111) are now available!

so........ £14.49 now. It was around £14.98 when i was to work at 5am. 

@jayboat  It certainly doesn't look good for the pm's right now.  Here's a little 10 min vid from a guy that seems to be pretty good at analysing gold and silver using Elliott waves.  He does an interesting weekend clip every week.  I reckon for his bearish option to be set back we need to see a decent bounce by the end of the week back to the 1720 region which is looking less and less likely.  The weekly chart looks very bearish now and is currently forming the third of three black crows which is not good.  If it turns here (1680) though before Friday night and forms a decent hammer that might be positive but it's not looking likely imo.  I can see this falling all the way to trendline support at 1650 in pretty short order.  A crash through that and we're going all the way to 15.60.  That's the last line in the sand for the bullish case and as he says it would be a multi year consolidation if that happens.