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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2665210, member: 4781&quot;]Thanks,</p><p><br /></p><p>So far I&#039;ve rolled out a number of different things including 30-oz long silver bars that were locally refined and poured by my friend Dave Emslie (of &quot;Prospector&#039;s Gold and Gems&quot;). I&#039;ve also rolled out a number of small ingots that I poured myself, and I plan to be doing more of that. I like rolling out commercial die-struck 10-oz silver bars. Those seem to produce the cleanest defect-free blanks. The rollers are wide enough that I can just insert the bar near the middle without needing a feeding jig or anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have multiple punch die sets and a jig to hold them. I can put that jig in just about any press with a pressing capacity of 20 tons or more. I&#039;ve been using a cheap hydraulic press with a manual (lever) pump cylinder for punching blanks. Obviously, punching a lot of blanks with that setup is tedious and takes a long time. But I now have a high-speed powered hydraulic press that I will be using, once I get it set up.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wrote my own digital sculpting software. I use it to design and sculpt all my products. My software outputs a &quot;G-Code&quot; file which I feed to my CNC milling/engraving machine to cut dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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