How to make a ring out of a coin. Instructions complete with photos. Pretty neat.

PutTogether · April 25, 2005 7:47AM

Stumbled across this on the internet.

coin ring.

F117ASR · April 25, 2005 8:02AM

Wow! Very cool!

F117ASR · April 25, 2005 8:03AM

It's amazing that he got all 50 stars to show too!

ClausUrch · April 25, 2005 8:04AM

Best looking Kennedy half I've ever seen!

F117ASR · April 25, 2005 8:09AM

<< <i> Best looking Kennedy half I've ever seen! >>

Whats wrong with Kennedy's. I happen the think they look good.

NumisMe · April 25, 2005 8:30AM

We were doing this with Silver Quarters when I was in High School back in the early Seventies.
Then I learned to appreciate the coins more than the jewelry.

TonedPeaceNut · April 25, 2005 8:59AM

Thats so F-ing cool. I just wish I had about 3 days with nothing to do and I'd make myself one!!!

Anyone contact this guy to see if he'll do it for a profit???

What would you pay?

TPN

Sphinx357 · April 25, 2005 9:03AM

btmoore9 · April 25, 2005 9:32AM

That was really neat to see. Don't think I could do it

but still think it's neat. Would make a great gift for the coin people of this world!!

Betta285 · April 25, 2005 9:41AM

Wow, pretty neat. Guess I found something to try with the '52 washington I just got in change

jim

66Tbird · April 25, 2005 9:48AM

I've got time, maybe I'll do it

TonedPeaceNut · April 25, 2005 9:52AM

I just emailed the guy with a link to this thread. Maybe he'll join and give out some prices. I'd love to buy one, if it werent too expensive!

I wonder if I could use an AH Kennedy for one and a Frankie for another!

TPN

nwcs · April 25, 2005 9:58AM

I remember seeing that a couple of years ago. Pretty cool then and now.

ddbird · April 25, 2005 10:31AM

Hmm...Ill def. try that out sometime...That looks awsome! And would be a neat story to tell.

kryptonitecomics · April 25, 2005 10:38AM

I gotta admit...it does look cool and I agree that I would like to try it if I have enough time someday.......thanks for posting the link

dorkkarl · April 26, 2005 8:20PM

undoubtedly, THE COOLEST post of the month!!!

K S

MikeinTyler · April 26, 2005 8:32PM

I have made several of these rings in the past few years. Some interesting tidbits.....

obviously a ring with your birth year is cool

Kennedy and Walkers both look nice for a man's ring.

Barber quarters end up very cool, especially with an 1800 date

with older coins use a well circulated example, obviously they are less expensive and they look just as good.

after you get the hang of it, a small 'tack' hammer works well

do it at night while watching tv

oh and it WILL drive your wife crazy.....that little tap, tap, tap sound doesn't resonate well in the female ear LOL

Rodius · April 26, 2005 9:55PM

Very cool thread. My dad started a couple of these years ago, I found them in his dresser after his death. Not sure where they got to, would love to finish them up. He was working on Franklins and Walkers. UHMM.

1946Hamm · April 26, 2005 11:58PM

While in basic training back in 1966 at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. a bunch of us used mess hall spoons to make these rings from silver half dollars. Any time we were not learning to be soldiers, we were tapping away with the spoons. Two spoons taped together works faster. We didn't have a drill to hollow out the center but a knife worked fine. The ring made a nice momento of our experience there. I lost mine years ago.

XpipedreamR · April 27, 2005 12:00AM

Hopefully, it was an AH.

ozniz · April 27, 2005 1:12AM

I've made dozens of these from all materials but zinc and gold. Obviously the easiest to work with would be aluminum, but take it easy, it tends to bend in half. I switched from a Dremel to a high quality set of jeweler's files, as I save all the silver that is lost, and the bits of grit in the silver "crumbs" were unattractive in my collecting jar. I tend to use alot of U.S.-Phillipine stuff, where each side of the band has each country displayed, along with the date. I know of a guy who does this commercially, using his coin or yours. They aren't cheap though, Morgans are about $95.

ScarsdaleCoin · April 27, 2005 1:15AM

Thanks for a great post...I had read about this but the pictures now explain a lot!!!!!

Coinhusker1 · May 1, 2005 11:38AM

Link to coin ring plans not there now -- its being revised.

ca0100000 · May 1, 2005 12:23PM

http://web.archive.org/web/20040314025022/http://members.tripod.com/dlclark/coinring.htm

archive copy should work..

mrpaseo · May 1, 2005 12:39PM

Man I was upset when the link did not work, thank you so much for the archive link. I have never heard of this but will definitely be trying it

Thanks for the links and this thread,
Ray

How to make a ring out of a coin. Instructions complete with photos. Pretty neat.

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