farmer brown jefferson nickel

billzach · 04-02-2005, 08:38 PM

this is carving i named farmer brown, it,s on a 2001 jefferson nickel..i don,t get a lot of requests for a jefferson carving, maybe 3 or 4 per year....i,ve carved a few wheat penny carvings, which i call a penny- bo

Spider · 04-02-2005, 09:45 PM

lol, should be called the big nosed farmer nickel

knowtracks · 04-02-2005, 09:56 PM

I asked this question on the Coiled Hair Pattern, but I would also like to know how you blend it on a nickel?

Once again beautiful work Billzach, but I do have one question. What is used to blend the look of the newly carved silver with the original? As in this statment,
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.this carving has been aged out around rim and edge of face to give it a nice tone.

Thanks For Sharing

billzach · 04-02-2005, 10:22 PM

sorry about not replying back on your question....it took me a number of years to come up with a mixture to tone coins...if you need more information on mixture pm me as it would amount to 1/2 a page..., but here is the basic mixture, gun blue, contact cleaner, water, iodine and crewing tobbacco....i don,t mind telling anyone how to mix it, but it involves more procedures than such the adding of mixture and i would be glad to ahare it

Spider · 04-02-2005, 10:28 PM

chewing tobacco? what does it do?

!!!!!250th post!!!!!

billzach · 04-02-2005, 10:39 PM

in the old days when hobos would carve a hobo nickel, they would put it in a tobacco bag to keep it safe until they sold or traded it...the reason they didn,t put in their pockets was because their pockets always had holes in them.....so by carring it in a tobbacco bag the carving would take on a stained look [ reddish brown ]..while i,ve toned my carvings to look a reddish brown from my mixture i usually give them a stored up look which can be accomplished by the degree of mixture...tobbacco bag hobo nickels are few in number..