hobo and cattails [hobo nickel]

Discussion in 'US Coins Forum' started by billzach, May 18, 2005.

  1. billzach

    billzach Senior Member

    i,m back to carving and here is a hobo nickel i just finished...i got behind and plan on spending a good deal of time in carving shop and hope to get a hobo nickel carved for a future hobo nickel collector by the name of sierra in ca. soon ...the story on this carving goes back to a hobo eating what was available and many times it was cattails and onions with a little meat...hobo nickel carver billzach
     

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  3. Midas

    Midas Coin Hoarder

    Wow? You carved that? That is great! When I try to tell my hands to carve or paint something artistic, I have trouble producing stick men!

    Fantastic job...you have more patience to work on such small detail than I ever would.

    I'm jealous.
     
  4. cdcda

    cdcda New Member

    Impressive Bill! How long did the carving take you?
     
  5. JBK

    JBK Coin Collector

    And how do you re-tone the coin uniformly?
     
  6. billzach

    billzach Senior Member

    hobo and cattails

    it took about 8 hours to carve and the tone on nickel was done by a solution i mix myself of mostly houehold items...
     
  7. cdcda

    cdcda New Member

    Eight hours?!?! Impressive. Do you do a drawing first and work of that, or work in another medium first to nail down the design? Having less than no skill of this type I really am amazed.
     
  8. txwille

    txwille New Member

    Nice work! Is this done on a buffalo nickel, with the buffalo profile left intact on the reverse?
     
  9. Spider

    Spider ~

    very nice billzach, its a nice piece of modern day history
     
  10. Speedy

    Speedy Researching Coins Supporter

    NICE...you always do a great job...8 hours is a long time...did you do it all in one day or take you time and do it when you had time?

    Speedy
     
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