coin ring from £1
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- this is the process I took to turn a 1983 British pound coin in a custom made ring. due to the wear and tear of the ring it wasn't fit as a form of payment, even vending machines rejected the coin so I thought I'd make use of it some other way.
Thank you! This is a great idea that I would not have thought of. Cheers!
Don't think my downstairs neighbors would appreciate me doing that! LOL :)
That took alot of patience. Well done.
Ha, cheers! It's quite therapeutic though and the end result is worth it :D
a person with no ambition or a lack of skills would think this is a waste of time
Nicely done, I'm going to try making one 👍.
Great work dude. I wish I was as good as you.
Louie 9000 thanks dude!
Something that I do when making coin rings with the hammering method that you may find helpful, is to first find the center and make the pilot hole. Then I take a dremel cutoff wheel bit, and attach the coin to it as you would a cutoff or polish wheel. Using that as a spindle to turn the coin while hammering is probably easier on your non-hammering hand, and greatly reduces the chance of bashing said hand with the hammer. Hope this is useful, and nice work, by the way. One question - have you tried making one where you leave the inner coin detail intact?
ah I see! I will bear that in mind actually. that would definitely save me from hitting myself with the hammer and may even save time! :) no I haven't tried to make it with the inside still intact... maybe I will in the future but I would need to gather a few more tools to experiment with that
Respect
nice ideas
How many hour take make a ring?
Does take a lot of Experions?
Nikkel coin get bad its why.
They say there is 14 million old pound coins still in circulation. So this ring now could be seen as a limited addition.
Please Do This With A New 1 Pound Coin
a small drill.. then a medium drill the a large drill saves a lot of time.......then a good polish ....your method works fine simple house hold tools ....good... no fancy press and ball bearings like the yanks ..300 dollars worth of kit made in 10 minutes .no fun in that .......
cheers dude. yeah increasing the drill bit size gradually would be quicker and prevent the likely hood of my thin drill bits snapping like it did on the two occasion haha! but I think this way (all be it simple and cheap) is more involved and interesting than just pressing balls through the coins ha :D
i tryed drilling a pound coin both my drilles yust went hot and blunt ....and they were new ....maybe there a special type on drill....
+Sp4rt4nR17 can it be done whilst keeping the writing and detail around the outside of the coin?
+MikeStobbs well in theory yes. if I were to drill a fairly small hole then place the ring over a jewlers ring sizing mandrel and use a tube of some sort to hammer it down the mandrel. it would bend and stretch the pattern a little bit. unfortunately I don't have the mandrel to experiment with lol
Nice!! Wow
why was I expecting the middle just to pop out aha
I was kinda hoping for the same really but it's never quite as simple as you'd think unfortunately ha!
Remember when they used to look like that
The good old days lol.
now you can just pop the middle out
You should take it to a pawn shop to see how much you get from it.
SanityZeroSix Haha! Yeah that would be interesting. i believe it's mostly copper and zinc so i wouldn't have thought I'd get hundreds for it 😂
I swear that's Illegal here
I'm honestly not too sure but the coin was old and too worn. no one would take it so I made better use for it than just throwing it away
+Sp4rt4nR17 Not like that's a real law anyway, it's a beautiful project and it's just a coin. I'm sure if you showed that to the queen she wouldn't have you thrown in jail.
Great job with the ring, but that pound coin looks perfectly useable
I hope it makes you invisible if the pigs come knocking.
it is and yes they do nick you for it i promise you. not only that any coinis worth its face value if its in circulation
there's a lot easier ways to get the center part out than what he's doing that's just too much work
what is thr machine called in whivh you put the coin in between and drilled
livingsoul1234567 the blue thing right? it's just a 10kg vice. I used some wood to help hold the ring too so the vice didn't squish the metal
nice ring think l will try it and l not care if pigs come knocking at my door might even sell them the ring ;-)
Make one out of an Euro coin ...or a 2 quid coin :)
what s the music . Chopin,bach.mendelsen
Chopin prelude no.15 'raindrop' :)
Is there any point in having a coin and going through the extra effort?
abseiduk I see what you mean but it's kind of interesting to see the coin go from it's origional pattern to a mirror polishes piece of jewlery. I could probably buy a cheap shiny ring on eBay for 99p but I wouldn't be able to say I hand crafted it lol :)
basically ruined the detail and just made a standard looking metal ring, good job for effort though.
could you use a 2 pound coin to do this?
I wouldn't have thought a £2 coin would work as the center is a different metal and may pop out when hammering. I know it would be drilled out anyway but it still needs to be hammered around the edges and that would be shy of impossible with a Hole in the middle haha
Sp4rt4nR17
Sp4rt4nR17
If you pop out the center with a hammer and then use a conical rod to bend the outer ring downward with some heat, there is absolutely not filing or drilling needed.
and the added bonus is the writing stays so it looks cool. Sp4rt4nR17
If you pop out the center with a hammer and then use a conical rod to bend the outer ring downward with some heat, there is absolutely not filing or drilling needed.
and the added bonus is the writing stays so it looks cool.
Matt’s Tech if have big fingers ..lol
Wow, u wasted £1 but not £220+
Just wow
Isn't that like treason or something
no, I think it is only treason if you are defacing a coin to increase its value to make it something its not or for some sort of forgery coins
Racists don’t believe in treason.
There are easier ways to do it!
Why didn't you do it on a crap coin not a nice one
Hayden Bray I had previously made a ring from a foreign coin (The silver one I am wearing in the vid) and it was ok but a little thin. The Pound coin has more width but the colour was nice also. I have a little pot of random foreign coins which id like to experiment with but they are primarily copper which would leave a green mark on my finger over time...
waste of time
what makes you say that?