I have a poured 10oz bar by scottsdale and it came frosted from the mint. Can i polish this with steel brush or diamond paste to get rid of the frosted finish? I realize that i may lose some silver content but will this affect resell value down the road? I know i can just buy other type of silver but i like these poured bars from scottsdale except the frost. Just wanted to get stackers opinion on tampered silver bars. Ive read seller here polishing Perth mint bars before selling them, so i figured it wouldnt affect the bars value if i do polish it.
I wouldn't do it, I guess you're talking about a 10oz hand pour or Reserve bar. If it looks tampered with no-one will want it.
Its your silver. A little jeweler's rouge should do the trick. I'm sure it would affect collectable value but sliver value would be unaffected.
Its the poured bar and not the casted reserve bar. I dont even understand why mint company are frosting their silver now. I plan on keeping these long term (10-15yrs) and dont really care about it losing collectable value but concern about it selling at all. The older scottsdale poured bars were not frosted. I just dont understand the logic behind it.
I'd keep it frosted - then the potential future buyer still has the choice to polish or keep frosted and that might be worth something to them.
If i do polish it, is the jewelers rouge a compound i put on an abrasive wheel or just buffing wheel? Thanks
Just put it on buffing wheel or even polish it with a rag. You'll be very happy with the results and I doubt you lose any noticeable amount of silver.
Look seriously if it makes you happy, polish it up, only of you don't mind having to sell it to a dealer, they can xrf it if they are suss but I really don't think you will have a problem selling it if you have to take this option
I don't know if you have Home Depot in Canada but they carry it as does most home improvement type stores. Amazon.com also has it. Around $5-6 U.S. and will last you for many projects.
I only typically sell my unwanted silver back to my dealers. I got rid of all my 1oz rounds and bars and stayed with sml bullion, semi-numis coins and 10oz bars or bigger. I have the monarch poured polished silver and i like it way more than the frosted poured silver. I will polish one and i will go from there.
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Idk where you read that i bought so many and i never said i hated them. In fact, i said i really like poured bar except that theyre Frosted. Pirocco, frosting is really just a term they use to glorify "sandblasted or bead blasted" and it will take less than a minute to blast a 10oz silver bar. As for your duck comment, idk wtf thats suppose to mean. Lol. If youre trying to insult me, you can go Duck yourself. You guys need to relax. Its just a question. if i do polish it, it is my bar and not yours. Its not a minted bar or coin. Its a handpoure bar. Lol.
So u like the frosted bars except the fact that the bars are frosted. Im not trying to be annoying i just find it odd lol. And u said "i plan on keeping these long term" which i would think means you have several or you are planning to buy more. Whatever you do i just really want to see pics. I had a couple 5oz scottsdale frosted bars and i thought about doing the same thing for fun......but sold them cos they were ugly and frosted lol
I like handpoured bars, Except the frosted part. Scottsdale poured bars never used to be frosted/blasted. I currently have one but do plan to buy more i i can get over the frosted part. Havent decided to polish it yet but will post pics if i do. I to find the 5oz ugly so i dont plan to buy those.
It's not the minute that matters, it's the cost to do so. The duck comment was an explanative analogy due to ego2spare's question "Why did u buy many frosted bars if u hate frosted bars???", based on the possible scenario that you didnt know that 'frosted' silver bars existed, and that you ordered bars just like before in the past, to discover afterwards that they 'invented' a new finish aside polishing (frosting).
