Two Coins Finished Tonight

[hotshot]

The first is a 500 colon coin from Costa Rica.  It is really great to cut (brass) and looks gold all the way through.  To bad the picture doesn't represent it well.  Second coin is a S Good pattern I've cut before.  Getting the small fish and eagle was the challenge in this one.

Any one ready to give this a try yet?  Used #4/0 Jewelers blades from Sloans on most of this (ran out of 2/0)


------Randy

[Marcellarius]

you master the saw, great cutting!

[DWSudekum]

Randy you have really mastered cutting coins.  Each and every one of them have been works of art.  Thanks for sharing these beautiful cut coins with us.

DW

[frankorona]

Excellent work, both look very well done, thanks for sharing.

[newfie]

there great Randy thanks for sharing

[countryscroller]

From looking at that, nope I'm not ready yet. You are a very talented person to cut such small coins with detail like that. Thanks for sharing.

[Martin]

I'm always amazed by the coins you cut. I don't know how you do it, even the pic's you post are too small for me to see properly.

Martin.

[Rover2]

Beautiful work Randy. Thanks for sharing.

[wombatie]

You do amazing work Randy with such great accuracy I think I will leave it all to you oh master.  By the way, what do you do with the coins after they are cut?  Do you keep them, sell them, give them away, turn them into jewelery?

Marg

[Russ C]

Fantastic work, they look great. 

[Al W]

Excellent work - thanks for sharing.

Al

[hotshot]

By the way, what do you do with the coins after they are cut?  Do you keep them, sell them, give them away, turn them into jewelery?

Marg

I was giving them away, and have given out many.  All kinds of folks, craft types or not, wanted them.  One lady from work wears one of several she has every day on a necklace.  It' pretty rewarding to see people wear what you make.

My wife grabbed a few coins and some of the wood work and had it "juried" at our local craft store and I was able to past muster for both coin cutting and wood working.  Will people actually pay for this type of thing?  I don't know, people look at crafts and if they don't understand the effort required to make it, they might not value it.  Some of the coin's I have listed at $20, probably a little less than minimum wage.  For the coins I give to friends, part of the value is that they know the person that made it.

-- ------Randy

[Becky]

Amazing detail work.  I think I would be cross-eyed after the first cut.  Do you use a magnifier?  I guess you'd have to. How do you even stick the pattern to the coin?

I'm not sure I have the eyesight to do this (actually pretty sure I don't) but I am interested in knowing how its done.

[wombatie]

You are a very generous man Randy.  Anyone would wear your coins with pride.

Marg