how are these made

looks cool put how is the ring made if you melt the coin wont you lose the detail of the image on the coin

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Amazing-Rin...ndcrafted_Artisan_Jewelry&hash=item20cb3bc3fe


oh and found this if any one wants to tarnish a silver coin for some reason

http://www.coincrafter.com/Caring_for_my_ring.html uses an egg

 

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No, you can simply melt the coin on a spoon with a bic lighter, you must use bic for the temperature is just hot enough to melt the silver, but cool enough to leave the details intact. I have difficulty creating a perfect circle wax mold for it though... ;-)

 

The reason this is because the 10 percent copper is all used in the details and the copper takes way hotter temperatures to melt, it is really simple, just get a spoon and lighter and your ready to rock!

 

you can also make cool spheres with the details intact, by letting the melted contents run off the spoon into a cold pale of water!!! Really cool!

 

wow would like a picture of that

 

Here is one I made last month, I love it!!!

 

It is the best one I have gotten to come out, but it is really easy, I only tried a couple of times, I mean silvers expensive ya know.

 

Hey! Way cool!

 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=_mikLcJmK54

 

I think Dennis is out to kill all my fun... ROTFLMAO!

 

cant find a video on melting it with a bic all im seeing are being done with a hammer are there any videos about making the spears or guides

 

Better to search for a method to produce Greek bronze memorabilia............

 

Love it! But isint it illegal to melt coins

 

no its illegle to deface or to try and make it say its worth more pennys are illegle to melt not old silver

 

figured this wouldnt work even tryied a frying pan started toning nicly tho

 

Things are really going to **** in a hand basket here. geez, a year ago the mods would have yelled at me already for teasing and convincing people to heat up their silver coins on spoons ROTFLMFAO, It is all done with a hammer people! Everything I said was erroneous information, the pic was even a stolen google pic... :devil:

 

Well thanks for all your effort and "good" information. You sure put a lot into it.

 

the hammer way leaves the outside detailess and drilling a whole takes out silver i figured if i could get it hot enough to be liquide there would be no detail great made up store as to why theres still detail when i put it in the frying pan it was pretty purble blue green kinda rainbow tone for the first minute then i waited to see what would happen finnaly it turned very dark. so i took a torch lighter to it which but a colorful dot on it that looked cool it was my wifes ideal she wanted to make the ball

 

that to shiny slq is now dark and not shiny

 

Thank goodness you left off the part about "once it's really hot, roll it really quickly onto your finger -- since silver conducts heat so well, it'll conduct the heat away from your finger, so you won't get burned."*



* Don't try this. You WILL get burned. Just thought I ought to say that explicitly, after reading through the thread so far. Yeesh.