i carved this carving with a norseman as the subject..this is my own design..i,ve been carving hobo nickels for about 10 years under the name billzach using hand gravers and microscope...
WOW! Welcome to the forum! I've followed your carving career through various websites (Verne's mostly) and auctions. Your Hobo Nickels and other carvings are really contemporary state of the art. You and a handful of others are defining this generations folk art legacy. Thanks for sharing.
Howdy billzach - Welcome to the Forum !! You certainly do nice work I hope you post pics of some more examples. I don't suppose you were at the Vegas coin show were ya ?
WOW, I like it, it so clean cut.. I have just reciently started to look at these hobo nickel's. Very nice. Could you carve one with a head dress of feathers? OK last question do you have a web site or someplace i can go to see/buy your carvings?
If he does - I hope he replies by using the PM function so as to stay within the Forum rules Of course, if he sticks around a while, he can use the Open Forum once he has his requisite 10 posts
Excellent ! You are a true artisan, have you done any work on designing of new American issues. Your work is first rate. Welcome to our forum. Bluesmanmoney
i should have mentioned that i wasn,t posting to get new work, i usually stay 2 to 3 months behind on commisioned work,, i love to talk hobo nickels.....anyone interested in pictures of pattern dollars i,ve carved? [ none for sale ]
Billzach, Do you have any photo sequences of you carving? I'm interested in the process you go through not so much in the design phase but in the carving phase. Do you use blank planchet or actual circulation coins?
Likewise, I am an artist and thats what draws me into coins is the expression of man's art in his coinage thru time. Please post some more pics. I'll share my art with you just check my profile and there will be an address were you can see my work. You have earned my admiration as an artisan. Couple of question though is copper nickel a better alloy or copper silver to carve. What is are there good and bad qualities, as far as working the metal? Thanks Shan......................bluesmanmoney
pattern dollar picture of a 1879 schoolgirl pattern dollar i carved for a pattern dollar collector last year on a 1879 morgan dollar, one of hardest things to carve on this carving was the 13 beads on necklace as a original schoolgirl pattern had 13, also the toning of carving in picture matches carving.........
Hey I tought I'd bring this thread back up as it was started late last night. So some of you'll would have missed it. Some great work here. Check the images posted by this fellow!!!
