Pouring your own Silver

[BackyardBullion]

Hello everyone,

I have just joined the silver forum and wanted to ask the community if anyone else pours their own silver? I have recently started doing it and its great fun and I am having some good success with smaller bars! 

Big problem as ever is getting affordable silver to smelt. Due to the size of the kiln I am using I can only smelt silver shot.

Does anyone know where I can get silver shot at a decent price?

If you are interested my Youtube channel is called Backyard Bullion

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM_iarnIuvnwq8eMMGvWzOA

Thanks all!

Backyard Bullion

Here are some of my bars I have smelted

[HelpingHands]

Hello.  Feel free to link your channel.

[SilverPirate]

Already a subscriber welcome aboard.

[Agpanda]

Hi and welcome to the forum

[nr73]

Welcome to the forum. As a newbie here I will watch your vid on the fake that you received from eBay before anything else! 

[BackyardBullion]

Thanks nr73

I got 100% refund as well even though the seller was playing silly buggers with the whole situation. Ebay is very good at protecting the buyers. 

I have a playlist on the subject of fake silver:-

Backyard Bullion

[nr73]

It's good that eBay are on top of it. As a seller though it leaves things open to you getting hoodwinked. Like you suggested in your video, someone could swap a legitimate item for a fake and claim that's what you sent, in which case eBay would no doubt rule in their favour.

[BackyardBullion]

Yes, very true. I am weary of selling anything generic on eBay - the silver bars I make are pretty much un-copyable. But to be sure there are issues being a seller on eBay.

[BackyardBullion]

I'm pretty sure that they monitor accounts that make such returns and claims - if you stick to established buyers with decent feedback in general the risk of swaping out is quite small.