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Too Cold Last Week To Detect....So I Made A Batch Of Coinrings....

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It was too cold to detect earlier in the week, so I gathered a bunch of old cheap poor quality coins from a recent batch I bought and tried to put some new life into them.
<img src="http://www.picsplace.to/045151/coinrings_finished.jpg" alt="Image hosted by PicsPlace.to" >
After much drilling, burring, hammering and polishing....this is how they turned out.
 
THose are sweet John. Are you gonna open a shop? Id sure like to get a couple of those.
David
 
This is neat!
I am trying to figure out how you made them without maring the artwork on the coins!
Would you mind posting the instructions?
I am guessing that the coin was drilled and then formed to size of a mandrel, but, did you use heat (that would mess up the artwork). My curiousity is killing me!
Good Post!
Roy
 
<img src="/metal/html/cry.gif" border=0 width=40 height=15 alt=":cry"> <img src="/metal/html/grin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":grin">
John,
You make some mighty nice rings. I have tried the double sided, but when I try to get the cone shape out of the ring, all I get are puckers. <img src="/metal/html/cry.gif" border=0 width=40 height=15 alt=":cry"> I assume in having a little taper or cone, but it seems mine have been toooooooooooooooooo much.
I use a solid steel mandril, but there is just too much metal on the outside edge and it won't lay against the mandril. Puckers Puckers and more Puckers.
John!!!!!!!! <img src="/metal/html/cry.gif" border=0 width=40 height=15 alt=":cry"> Any help would be appreciated.
Lar
 
I think John posted the instructions awhile back. Check the older pages.
Bill
 
I reall haven't put together a set of instructions for the double sided rings yet. I'm working on it though. Eastern and Western treasures have asked me to write an article on how to make a coinring. It is tentatively booked for march. I am trying to get the second set of instructions for the double sided ones ready for publication.
 
In order to avoid those puckers, you need to keep pushing the ring down the mandril, enlarging the inner diameter, pounding the sides, then again down the mandril to increase the inner diameter....keep doing this cycle. This allows you to eventually end up with no or a slight taper with no puckers. I had to make about 6-7 of them rings before I could get the hang of it.
Hope this helps Larry
 
Just wanted to say thanks for all the information that you have provided about the "250". I probably wouldn't have one today if it hadn't been for you.
 
So how do you like it or have you had a chance to use it.
Bill
 
I had it out for an hour this week on a tobaggon hill. The ground was as hard as concrete, however I did get 2 pennies. On the bright side there were so many good signals that I can't wait to get back to the hill when Christmas is over, as thousands of kids will have gone down that hill and that means good opportunities for more coins. I can only say that the machine really locks on coins very quickly. That machine has some surprising depth to it too. It's going to be a real hot coinshooter for the newer schools close to home. Pinpointing is also right on. Garrett could have easily sold that machine for $100.00 more and people still would have gotten a good bargain. No complaints from this part of the world!
 
That's exciting news -that they are going to publish an article that will be wrote by you.
I think it's neat that you have received such recognition from Garrett and now W & E Treasure Magazine. Looks like you will leave your mark in the world of treasure hunters. Best Wishes, Bill/Wa. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
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