01:51
CAD Design Tips: Recessed text
17/08/2023
Successful and easy to clean up settings start with good CAD designs.
Recessed text and and similar designs can look great or add useful identifying marks to castings.
However, due to the numerous styles of text and fonts, issues can arise with the printing, investing and casting.
Making allowanc
02:09
CAD Design Tips: Sharp corners, gap supports and starter sprues
19/07/2023
Successful and easy to clean up settings start with good CAD designs.
Sharp corners can cause investment and casting issues, with the investment breaking off during the metal injection stage.
Unsupported aspects can also cause the same issues and warp or twist when cooling.
Adding a starter spru
01:55
CAD Design Tips: Filling In Small Gaps
19/07/2023
Successful and easy to clean up settings start with good CAD designs. Small gaps and holes can cause investment and casting issues, leading to malformed casting and porosity. The most common gaps we see are between settings and posts as well as holes left for stone.
This video shows how to use Rhi
01:59
CAD Design Tips: Adding Supports to Settings
19/07/2023
Successful and easy to clean up settings start with good CAD designs. Ensuring that the models have adequate design aspects to ensure optimal metal flow and sufficient support is crucial. This video shows how to use Rhino to correctly add support sprues to common settings in gold, silver and platinu
00:58
Computer-aided design (CAD) Diamond Trilogy Ring
30/09/2022
Behind the scenes computer-aided design (CAD). Our jewellery CAD specialist swiftly designs and renders a beautiful trilogy diamond ring in 18ct white gold.
Learn more about CAD through Morris and Watson at :
https://morrisandwatson.com/casting/cad-design
00:26
Fine Silver Melted and Poured 99 9% Pure Morris and Watson
27/09/2022
00:10
Gold Refining: Gold Chloride Dissolved by Aqua Regia Acid.
10/03/2016
The orange coloured liquid in the glass bottles is Gold Chloride. This is gold that has been dissolved in Aqua Regia – a mixture of Nitric acid and Hydrochloric acid.
The liquid is agitated by introducing air into the bottles. The Technician is adding a powdered chemical (sodium metabisulphate). Th
00:08
Wire for Belcher Chain: Round Wire to 'D' Profile
3/02/2016
Sterling silver round wire run through rollers to 'D' shaped profile for belcher. Approx 0.7mm round will change to 1mm D shape. This will then be run through a set of finishing dies to give rounded edges and a consistent finish before being annealed in a controlled environment and put on a spool fo
00:20
Snake Chain Process: Limbering Machine at Morris and Watson New Zealand
8/06/2015
Round Snake Chain is threaded through three dies, one in the middle swings around in a circular motion. This makes the chain appear almost like a skipping rope as it limbers up links which have lost some of their range of movement through earlier compaction and hammering stages.
00:22
400 Gauge Chunky Cable Chain made in NZ by Morris and Watson
26/05/2015
This cable chain is being produced to create a 'Cuban-Style' chain. It will later be hammered and diamond cut to create the required style elements.
It is great to watch and understand how links are formed on smaller chains where you would need very good eye-sight and quick thinking to make sense o
00:18
Chain Machine in Action: NZ-Made Oval Figaro 1/1 at Morris and Watson
20/05/2015
A short video showing one of our chain machines in action. This particular machine has two sides, so that it can produce two different links to produce chain styles such as Figaro which features a short and long link.
00:17
Sterling Silver Wire being Drawn by Machine through Fourteen Dies at Morris and Watson
11/05/2015
Drawing down square wire through multiple dies to create 40 gauge (0.4mm) round wire which is spooled on the machine and will later be annealed and run through a chain machine to make Sterling Silver chain for retail.
00:33
Pouring 1kg Gold Bar 99.99% Pure Bullion - Morris and Watson
11/02/2015
1kg of fine gold granules are melted by the operator of the induction furnace. Next, the crucible is lifted and carefully poured in to a mold. Later on this bar will be polished and stamped.
00:26
Fine Silver Melted and Poured 99.9% Pure - Morris and Watson
11/02/2015
Fine silver crystals are produced in-house then melted in an induction furnace before being poured in to water where they cool and form in to granules to be used in fabricated products and for casting.
01:01
Pouring One Ounce Gold Ingot 99.99% Pure - Morris and Watson
10/02/2015
One ounce of 99.99% pure gold is melted and poured in to an ingot mold to cool.
02:25
Strand Annealing Fine Gold Wire - Morris and Watson
5/02/2015
This machine can run any wire through a tubular furnace and spools the wire at the end. This process heats up the metal to allow it's structure to revert to a looser and more malleable form, and the machine helps do this very consistently which is important for the chain machines that process this w
02:26
0,20mm Singapore Chain - Morris and Watson
27/01/2015
Possibly the smallest and lightest chain being produced in Australasia by Morris and Watson on their double curb machine. Credit to Ricky M.
02:23
1kg 99.99% pure gold poured by Morris and Watson
16/07/2014
this is 1 kilo of 99.99% pure gold being hand poured into a mould. this will be sold as an investment bar. approx value $40 thou NZD
04:14
Not all that glitters is Gold! part 2
2/07/2014
This is part two of this series "Not all that glitters is Gold" this is of the melting stage. You will note when the metal starts to melt the colour of the flame changes quite a lot. This is due to the metal being melted burning/oxidising. This was the first indication that there was other metals th
00:56
Not all that glitters is Gold!
26/06/2014
This video is the first of two. The metal was given to us by a customer whom thought this was Gold or had some gold content at least. Intially it had the appearence of having some gold content. Watch this space for the secound video to be posted with the results from this melt.
01:53
Pure Silver being poured into an ingot
23/06/2014
this video is of pure silver at 99.9% pure being melted using a gas tourch and then hand poured into a mould. this will be sold as silver bullion.
01:06
Sterling Silver wire being drawn/reduced from a square to round part 2
18/06/2014
This is a part two of a two part video of Sterling Silver wire being drawn or reduced from a square shape to round shape. This sterling silver will be used in the production of sterling silver machine made chain for the jewellery industry.
00:41
Sterling silver machine made chain
13/06/2014
This is a short video of a precious metals chain machine. This is producing a sterling silver cable chain (tiffany style) in the video. this machine can produce many different alloys such as 9ct yellow gold, white gold's and so on.
01:07
Sterling Silver wire being drawn/reduced from a square to round.
13/06/2014
This is a part one of a two part video of Sterling Silver wire being drawn or reduced from a square shape to round shape. This sterling silver will be used in the production of sterling silver machine made chain for the jewellery industry.
01:15
Melting a Morris and Watson 1oz gold ingot
6/05/2014
This video is of pure 99.99% gold granules being melted with a hydrogen oxygen gas torch and then being poured into a 1oz steel mould. This will later be stamped with Morris and Watsons hallmark.
00:52
Continuous Casting Machine. silver and gold alloys
21/03/2014
This is a video of our continuous casting machine. This machine extrudes precious metal alloys like gold and silver into 10mm round rod. it is capable of producing 60 kilos of sterling silver rod in approx 3 hours.