Rolling Down and Drawing Silver Wire - Turn Square Wire Into Round Wire

In Andrew's previous films
Andrew showed you how to melt down silver using an electronic furnace, roll out sheet, roll out square, rectangular, D section and court section wire. In this film Andrew takes you through the correct way to roll down and draw down wire to a specific diameter.

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[leebrewer]

FINALLY! Someone showing how wire is actually made instead of endless videos of people drawing wire from...wire!

[johnmoreno]

55 AND all ways tryin life. you inspire me .im a great prospector, and now i get to play with my metal. thank you Friend.

[soona]

Thank you so much for this. Got 'er done - despite only having the draw plate and a vice...lots of cursing, slipping around and annealing LOL!! I think I put a hip out but I got from ingot to to round 1mm wire with your help! :)

[eivindkofod]

Hi Andrew, I do a lot of drawing wire and like you, I have to mill it first on the square groves. However, I do something, I have not seen you or other tubers do: I actually roll round wire on the mill by rotating the wire less than 45 degrees. This is particularly beneficial, if you do not have a draw bench but only rely on your vise, draw plate and your arms. Can be hard work. Anyway, thanks for your videos. They are appreciated.

[allanthompson]

Ive been wondering about drawing down. Something didn't quite make sense in my rationing.
I have seen you demonstrate quite a few times, but Its only just clicked in my slowly forming trainee Jewelers brain. I do Love it when that happens, because a leap takes place rather than step by step slowly slowly, although that is also very very good.
Thanks Andrew. Legendary Educator as always Sir.

[suelynpeters]

Thanks so much for this series from scrap to “new” wire! So very helpful.

[DreidMusicalX]

Well. I watched this video and went looking for a draw plate bench like you have. OMG are they outrageous! I ended up building one with a wench and got a pair of draw plate pliers for about $20.00, so the entire cost was about $80.00 US and mounted it on a 4X6X8ft piece of lumber. They were asking like $1, 200 US for the one you have used. I also made mine adjustable with a flat vise that can move in as close as 2ft and out as far as making 7ft of wire. I made some copper wire so far with my carbide plate and I love it! No more trying to pull wire through a plate with pliers by hand, and making jagged wire. Your videos give me inspiration to do things and make things work. Looking forwards to more of your videos even though you have made many.

[Wrest]

i used to work in a silver/gold metal mill, we did this with like, 10, 000 T.oz at a time! We had giant annealing OVENS and machines that would do some of this in one step. We had a machine that would turn round wire into square wire( mainly to make it smaller size quickly) and square to round dies, round to half moons, triangle, and round to square again. Fun stuff! And very very very specific stuff.
Very neat to see it done like this on a small scale. Thanks!

[lizstrangesavage]

Thank you, Andrew! Really enjoyed watching your process!

[nininerikomi]

So incredibly helpful. Thanks, Andrew.

[darrenstettner]

Oh! I needed this video days ago! Now I’ve got a bunch of crappy flakey wires. Guess I was to eager with the increments I squeezed them ate

[Ken_Dalton]

Awesome video Andrew. Iv lived this whole indept series from ingot to wire! Alot of people will find it super helpful.. I got myself my firs draw plate last week.

[patrickhayes]

I will not be making electrical wire with this method! I was just watching production of fence wire in 2 mile long rolls. What a long way we have come in our industrial processing of metals.

Wish I had access to this shop just to watch the masters. Actually, I have to get back to my own bench that has been packed up for 20 Great way to start my Monday!

[jimbenge]

Loved this series of videos. I have learned so much from your channel. It may be some time before I get the chance to try drawing my own wire but, I now feel no dread at the prospect of trying. Thank you.

[giorgiodeste]

Very interesting lesson, thanks for sharing

[rmacfarland]

Excellent instruction. Exactly what I was trying to learn. You have some cool tools, unfortunately, I will be holding the plate with my vice and pulling with locking pliers. 😊

[Makermook]

I recently looked up fine silver wire online. The cheapest I could find had more than a 600% markup over what you'd pay for the bullion weight.

[argentorangeok]

You don't quench after heating for annealing. I've so many videos where the craftsman quenches after heating. Why do they do that? I took a metallurgy class in college about 25 years ago and seem to remember that quenching hardens/case hardens the work.

[dantailleur]

Very nice video--and great info!! Thanks for doing these--keep 'em coming!!!!

[sainaths]

Dear Sir Andrew,
Thanks for your best Vedio nicely explained, will please show the instrument you use to clamp / or you hold to pull through the draw plate
Regards
Sainath