:inlove: A Sweety Wheatie And Four Texans..... "COINRING TIME" :jump:

[John-Edmonton]

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Here's what I started with. Four uncirculated Texas Quarters and a 1944 Wheat Cent. US quarters are nice to work with, as they are fairly soft and malleable. Canadian Coinage is just too darn hard. Zinc is too brittle and our dimes and quarters are nickle plate over steel. Not good

Here's what I turned those coins into 4 hours later.

"COINRING-METAMORPHASIS" maybe?

 

[cwilk]

I was in submarines in the Navy and it was traditional to get a jewelers file and a nut and file away for months and months to make a ring when you went out to sea. I never finished one myself but I started a bunch. I had one pal who made a ring out of a nut that cost over a thousand bucks. It was a repair part for some system in the reactor compartment. I had a different shipmate who made 7 rings in the first few hours of an underway using power tools. Kind of defeated the purpose I remarked. He gave me one which I left in a hotel room in Glascow Scotland hurrying to get back to the boat one morning.

My question to you is how do you make 5 beautiful rings in just a a few hours? I have read how to make coin rings and some actually tell you to hammer on a silver coin with a spoon.

Do you sell them? Give them away?

Chris

 

[John-Edmonton]

I have made over 300, so I just cut, burr, hammer, sand etc. and always make a bunch at once because it saves a lot of time on the long run.

 

[possum]

Beautiful rings John. I didn't know if the new quarters would work for a ring - obviously they do. I'm trying to make one of a penny now using the instructions you gave on another site. When, and if, I get this one done, I'll give the quarter a try. Thanks for posting the pics.

 

[Uncle Willy]

You should start your own ring business on Ebay.

Bill

 

[Gold Digger]

I made a couple out of bus tokens, 2 out of the gold dollar coins, and one out of the susan b. I hammered them down with the side of a small crescent wrench About 10 hours of work but the rings turned out nice. I hadn't tried the new quarters yet, but I like the way your rings turned out.

 

[Rosco Bookbinder]

[quote Gold Digger]I made a couple out of bus tokens, 2 out of the gold dollar coins, and one out of the susan b. I hammered them down with the side of a small crescent wrench About 10 hours of work but the rings turned out nice. I hadn't tried the new quarters yet, but I like the way your rings turned out.[/quote]

Thing you have to remember about John's rings is they are DOUBLE sided rings. Sounds like you made the standard single side. I''ve made a nice silver single but haven't gotten a coin to make a double that will fit my finger. The ones I did make were way to big.....One of these days I guess......

 

[treasurefiend]

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man, that is the coolest thing!!!! how did you make them????​

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