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    Combination of hand engraving and fiber laser

    I do the same thing, but my results don't look as professional as yours. Must be the laser...
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    Example of how not to do it.

    If you look at the lettering, you can see that it is [poorly] hand cut, I think this is all just very badly hand engraved. A laser with a poor design looks like crap, but this looks like hand engraved crap.
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    Sorry to hear about your ankle, will pray for a quick recovery. The class went well, one YN...

    Sorry to hear about your ankle, will pray for a quick recovery. The class went well, one YN carved 14 coins and all 6 did well. Joe
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    Once again, a late notice that I am teaching again at summer seminar and you are always welcome...

    Once again, a late notice that I am teaching again at summer seminar and you are always welcome to stop by. we will be in the colburn gallery again same as last year. joe
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    Chinese Hobo Nickels on ebay

    Yup, what Sam said, although i believe they are die struck. When you can order multiples of the same design on rare date or fantasy date coins, it's a Chinese fake.
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    Making my own gravers

    Please keep us posted on how they work for you. I've made gravers out of O-1 which is fine for soft metal engraving, but even annealed steel is rough on them.
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    How to hammer this pattern into a die for fine-silver coinmaking

    I'd go with silverchip's idea. seems the most cost effective.
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    How to hammer this pattern into a die for fine-silver coinmaking

    Engraving pre heat treated steel will destroy tools. you need to engrave annealed tool steel, then have it hardened. O-1, W-1 S-2, S-7, A-2, are all good steels for this purpose
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    A trial and error process

    I like the engraving and I see what you are doing now. I would still recommend a shorter die and heavier anvil, it will allow you to move metal faster. If you are getting cracks at the edges, my guess is that it is the angle the die is striking the coin. The reason that the penny presses...
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    A trial and error process

    I know a couple of guys who have these machines. I've engraved a couple of dies for one of them as a favor/thank you for other work he has done, but yea, not financially worth while.
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    A trial and error process

    Most of your post reads like an artist's CV and I can't seem to pick out what your goal in this process is. Personally, I would use a much more massive anvil and a shorter die what is easier to hold and less prone to be far out of parallel with the anvil, both highly polished and hardened...
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    coin carvers

    5 grams per coin, so $159 for 90 coins give or take so about $1.76 each. I get full date coins from my LCS for 50 cents each
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    Attila The Hun Coin

    Ah, OK, that's the center section of a coin issued by Kazakhstan in 2009, not a coin issued by Attila himself.
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    Attila The Hun Coin

    Is this a digital sculpt?
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    Hey, almost forgot, I will be teaching the coin carving class next week. If you have the time...

    Hey, almost forgot, I will be teaching the coin carving class next week. If you have the time please swing by. 262-672-8374
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    Question: Buffalo nickel source

    If the coins are in the condition shown in the advert, it's fair, any lower condition, it's a rip off. For full date nickels my local coin dealer charges me 50 cents each. for coins worn down to where you can't read the date are 10 cents each.
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    Question: Buffalo nickel source

    Get to know your local coin dealer. Mine knows what I do with them and I get them at a discount. also, there is no reason you can't use whatever change you have in your pocket.
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    Air pressur and Engraving handpice

    Those handpieces are meant to be used with a control box, they will not work by connecting directly to air pressure. You will need a control box made by GRS or Enset. these machines take the compressor air and then provide pulses of air to the hand piece which allow the piston to cycle back...
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    My Most Recent Coin Carving

    Better than most of the skulls done lately, good job.
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    Getting hand control on power graver

    Did you contact the manufacturer of the machine you bought?

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