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😁 you know what he means Mr Chard.
Not every airport security Andy has been spending every day looking at sovereigns for 200 years like you have!

Here's the one I was talking about, but @FlorinCollectorposted a good one above too from Baird & Co.
So it seems there's 3 methods.
Pressed - these are the ultra perfect bars which are cut out from pressed sheets and then machine stamped.
Casted - these are shot/grain melted directly inside the mold to form the nice bar.
Poured - these are the ugly DIY ones that youtubers are selling with numismatic premiums.
 

Wow those are spectacular, I guess most of the people I see doing this on youtube are leaving theirs at your Heart(stage 2) with a light clean and polish.

You can get a very nice finish on poured silver. It all depends on who's making it and what they want it to look like. 
Here's a couple of poured pieces I've done. 
The bar is a bit under 1ozt. 
The heart shows it through the sanding stages. 
 

Here's the one I was talking about, but @FlorinCollectorposted a good one above too from Baird & Co.
So it seems there's 3 methods.
Pressed - these are the ultra perfect bars which are cut out from pressed sheets and then machine stamped.
Casted - these are shot/grain melted directly inside the mold to form the nice bar.
Poured - these are the ugly DIY ones that youtubers are selling with numismatic premiums.
 

It seems the vast majority of DIY information is focused on "pouring", personally I'm not a fan of the poured aesthetic, recently I watched a video on documenting the process within a gold refinery in Rwanda, it shows the process of creating really smooth and clean bars by melting shot directly in the mold.
It has me wondering, why isn't this done more? Why is everybody "pouring"? Is there a caveat to the "melting directly in the mold" method which makes it only possible with specialise / industrial equipment?

I'm strongly attracted to the 1.25% less premium on Brits (at the lowest volume)...
The kicker for me is the frequency at which I can buy, let's say it's either (x2 sov / 30days) or (x1 brit / 60 days) - if on day 45 gold has increased by 10% since your last purchase, with sovs you have already locked in 2 at a lower price on day 30, with brits you still have 15 days of potential further increase... of course there's also the bearish version of this argument to consider but what fool in shorting gold right now?