Tutorial for dollar carving thread

[Tezash]

Coin Carving

Thank you bill, it is very helpful. Tez.

 

[Abigail]

Sam,
Is she a Beechnut gal? You two are such cut ups. You gotta spit that stuff out before you sing ya know or it'll sound like gargling.

Tim,
My mother chewed Beechnut but I take after my Grandpa. We like Brown's Mule.
Abigail

 

[monk]

nah, i saw her teeth in that wabbit gittup . she's a mailpouch woman, guaranteed !

 

[monk]

tool costs

I have 2 gravermax, 2 monarch handpieces, 2 power hones, 2 microscopes, 2 grs engraving vises, etc in my shop, but if any of you beginners want to carve a coin, all you need is a #36 flat push graver, a mag. visor, glue your coin down and carve carving...My first tools cost less than $3, i used my money that i make on carving coins and invested in better tools and a week in engraving school..

for several months my first gravers were made from used files-square, round, flat, & 3 corner. they were extremely crude, but nonetheless allowed practice to continue until money could be squandered on a few real gravers . the pic will show a 1/4 x 1/4 " 90 degree graver that had maybe a 70 degree face.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/blarfay/90DEGREE-1.jpeg:

 

[monk]

for several months my first gravers were made from used files-square, round, flat, & 3 corner. they were extremely crude, but nonetheless allowed practice to continue until money could be squandered on a few real gravers . the pic will show a 1/4 x 1/4 " 90 degree graver that had maybe a 70 degree face.


http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/blarfay/90DEGREE-1.jpg

 

[Andrew Biggs]

Hi Bill

Thanks for all that.

You know, that has to be one of the most clever and trickiest things I have ever seen.

Cheers
Andrew