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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Badger Mint, post: 2370440, member: 42121&quot;]I don&#039;t normally comment on an opinion, but when there is faulty information I sometimes will.&nbsp; Many early hobo nickels show signs of professional tools being used and several early pieces also are known to have been photo etched, not something that the average train hopper had at his disposal.&nbsp; Cutting a coin with a needle and hand held nickel?&nbsp; I don&#039;t know where you heard this but based on personal experience,&nbsp; I doubt that was ever done.&nbsp; Today&#039;s carvers use tools ranging from sharpened nails through high buck hand held pneumatic engravers, I personally use gravers and the hammer and chisel method, no power.&nbsp; Old pieces were sometimes smoothed down (nicknamed carver &quot;smoothie&quot; is one example) as are some new ones, but most carvers now as well as then do not start with a flat surface.&nbsp; I teach hobo nickel carving at the ANA summer seminar and each student starts out with hand held, hand made tools and then has the opportunity to try power tools.&nbsp; So far, most of my students took the class for fun and a possible pastime, not for financial gain, although that was and is still a valid reason to carve a coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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