Modding coin ring

i'm sure most of you have seen this on hack a day or something like that.
http://members.tripod.com/~dlclark/coinring.htm
that guy is pro. this is my first time working with a dremel. i can't sand worth poo and i have no polishing thing. i might use chocolate.
http://www.trackertrail.com/survival/fire/cokeandchocolatebar/

 

It's not bad for a first try, I am still getting screwed over by my dremel. I will accidentally make a tiny slip and screw everything up.

So let me get this straight, you hammer the edges to it gets flat like that on the outside? Because i tried it and bent my quarter

 

I think you should be made aware it requires a pure silver coin.

 

i realized that the first time around. alas i lack pure silver to just throw away. but hey. it's pretty good for pounding on a piece of metal with pliers. yes pliers. i didn't have a hammer.

 

No, on hackaday it says it can work with a quarter.

 

i made a practive one initially with a quarter. it's too thin to work, unless you're making a girl's ring. the one pictured it a 500won (korea) coin. it's between the size of a 50cent and quarter.

 

if you hit it in the right way, you can knock the centre part out of a £2 coin which would get you half way there

 

i saw this on hackaday too, i'm making a ring out of a winston churchill 25p (?) coin circa 1965. it's frickin huge!!!

can anyone tell what year that JFK coin is from? i have one, but it's a copper sandwich one. i laughed out loud when i saw the pic of the coin with the hole drilled right through JFK's head, although i have a morbid sense of humor...

 

can u actually like bend the coin with a spoon?

 

I dont think so, not with a quarter at least.

 

you don't bend it, you use the spoon as a hammer. i got impatient and used a carpentry hammer, it's working great

 

silver is soft i assume. a spoon is steel. steel > spoon

 

i made one with a quarter, and now im making one with a gold dollar.

 

i stopped using the churchill 25p (?) coin, it was too heavy, so hammering was a bigger bee-yotch than all the women at the lillith affair combined. it also warped, giving it the shape of a pringles chip, so now i'm using a 50p (?) coin with the queen on one side, sorry, but the other side is kinda illegable. it's sevin sided if that helps, it's not round like american currency.

 

I am thinking aout doing one with two quarters put together, I will post the results if i try it.

 

it probably wouldn't work, but good luck!

i'm doing it with one of them brit seven sided coins about the size of a JFK dollar. i'm almost done sanding down the hammer marks, just about three little tiny spots left to go. i got an assorted pack of "tri-m-ite" wet or dry sandpaper, 220, 300, and 400, two sheets each. i reccomend it. spray a little WD-40 on the paper, and it goes so quickly, i'm probably gonna be done by tomorrow

.:EDIT:. i really like this quick reply thing at the bottom! it's great especially because i've memorized all the smilies and tags, so i don't need to load several pages now!

 

i finished the gold dollar ring today. After i got the outside done, the inside was quickly removed with a dremel and a drill bit cutter thing. I was very surprised how fast it was. It only took me about 1 hour to get rid of the inside part. I used two pieces of wood in the vice to hold the coin.

To smooth out the outside i used a file, 220, 320, 600, 600 with water, and finally some polish. Its so shiny

 

woah polish with chocalte!!! lol

 

i saw that thing too! such a waste of chocolate, i would have hacked off my arm and used the blood to polich my can. but it would have to be a mountain dew can, because someone who doesn't drink the dew wouldn't have the guts to hack off their arm.