Where do you guys buy your silver?

Patrice Lemée

Patrice Lemée

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Going to be needing a small amount for the Inquisitor so I thought I'd see what you guys prefer as far as suppliers go.

Gotta do some research too on what level of purity I need too.
This will be for an inlay going all the way through the blade.

Thanks
 
I was in the silver business for years and hands down I'd go with www.monsterslayer.com

100% of their silver is a recycled product, they have just about anything you can think of and great prices as well.

The owner is a really nice guy and so are the employees. Almost everyone who works there is a Silversmith so they know their stuff. It is on the Navajo Reservation and many of them are 5th generation smiths, I have learned a lot just by being in the parking lot and talking to the locals!

Indian Jewelers Supply is also great but I haven't bought from them as much, I only hear good things though.

www.ijsinc.com

Silversmithing is huge here, we have several local suppliers. I always check the pawn shops for tools and have an awesome hand made stamp collection. You wouldn't believe what you can do with an old motor valve and a saw!
 
Ebay once in a while. And check the coinstar machines when you walk by, people leave stuff in there from time to time.
 
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Is your inlay that cross hole?

If the hole straight through, are you going to enlarge the middle so doesn't just shrink and pop out ?

I would consider low temp silver soldering it in.
 
Sam, I am going to undercut (I think that is what it is called) the cross.

Mike, is it more expensive to buy forks and spoons or plate?
 
Today silver was 30.63 canadian a troy ounce, so i would have been charged 32.13 an ounce
this is for sterling silver which is 92.5% pure, you can get purer for more money
we melt the forks and such down do pull wire,for casting, or make sheet ourselves
i belive that its easier and possibly cheaper to buy it in cutlery, unless you live near a refinery, but that isnt a fact, just my belief
you might want to look into maybe trying Shibuichi, a mix of 75% copper 25% silver, it patinas really well
Hope this was some help Patrice

mike
 
Thanks Mike, great help for sure. I think I want sterling for this knife (as some suggested, vampire killing and all ;)) but I will take a look at shibuichi. I guess that you make that yourself. If so I have to look into how to melt silver and copper and make alloys like that.
 
Shibuichi, when hit with a brass brush, can put out about the same finish as silver, so im told
also if you patina it and steam it, it can produce a cool rainbow affect
 
Mike, did you buy the silverware at the website you mentioned? I did not find info about that on there.
Thanks
 
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