How to Make a Coin Ring From a 1 oz US Gold Eagle

hey Skylar here from the mint change you can wear today we're gonna be making the mother of all coin rings out of this a one ounce gold eagle so if you want to learn how to face an incredibly expensive coin stick around the first thing we need to talk about is hole size what hole are we going to cut into this coin to make the ring we need to make when I'm working with one ounce gold eagles main concern for me is splitting the coin accidentally you don't want to do that you really don't want to do that so what I do for hole size is I I cut a 9/16 inch hole and what that does is it allows the date to remain there completely but it eliminates some of the risk of actually splitting the coin and what I use to get that coin perfectly centered is the auto punch from Jason's work so basically it is the best tool you can use to cut a hole in your coin ring it's just hands down but the problem is it doesn't come with a 9/16 inch punch so what we're gonna do is punch a half-inch hole in the coin first and then I'll Center it in a disc cutter and cut that last little bit out so what I've selected is the half inch punch and it comes with the die that we put in there now I normally don't do this step on other coin rings but when you're doing a gold one you want to do everything you possibly can to get it centered I put a piece of tissue paper down on this platform before I put this die in just to take up any slack that might be there just like that that is nice and snug and ready to go it's set on top of this platform and see how that top is pitched what that's gonna do as you screw it down is perfectly Center the coin on the platform ready to cut until it's nice and snug now the next step is to put our 1/2 inch punch in there but first thing we're gonna do is put a little bit of a dry lube on it you can use burleigh for pepe lube and then we'll hammer it down with a brass mallet all right now we're cut through this is a disk cutter by Pepi tools the good thing about these is you can open them up line the coin up and then clamp it down so that way the coin is not going anywhere this is a centering tool the center of the hole that we have already cut in our coin so we'll slide that down there see it looks really good so we are good to punch this thing out more we used to cut this thing out with is a 6-ton a frame press by Harbor Freight and cut it out and this is the little bit of scrap that we get out of it it's not a lot but I tell you right now it makes a big difference in reducing the risk of splitting this coin as we make it and now what we need to do is use a deburring tool this guy right here to deeper the cut edge that we just made it's going to reduce the chance of splitting you don't want it to split as we start to bend it and the other thing is it's going to make it more comfortable when it turns into a ring you want it to be beveled and curved so that way it's not sharp on your finger where you're wearing it [Music] [Music] once we have that done use a little piece of 120 grit sandpaper 240 grit sandpaper something like that and we will just make sure we sand the inside of that cut edge now to make sure we don't have any burrs any chinks in it at all we want to be perfectly smooth before we start to bend it now that that's done it's time to do an eel so we're just annealing it until it turns that dark purple color right there that is the look we're looking for that purplish color you don't want to under nail it to where it's not quite there yet because it'll split as you do it and you don't want to over anneal it because then the surface will start to bubble up just a tiny bit all right so now we'll quench it all right we're gonna start folding now here's what were going to be using to fold it a 1-ton arbor press from Harbor Freight Jason's 1.3 1.4 17 degree die will be using the 1.3 side and a universal stainless steel folding cone are folding mandrel whatever you call it and we're gonna be wrapping this with teflon tape to make sure there's never any gold to steel contact at all grab this about two to three layers thick with teflon tape I'll line it up underneath the arbor press all right this guy's is the most dangerous part of the whole coin ring process or one of the most dangerous parts really feel the coin it feels like it's getting too stiff stop right away Aria nail it and bring it back here again if you overdo it here you'll split it and that'll cost you a bundle so don't do it slow and steady just make sure it's lined up as you do it keep realigning it up take your time all right I'm gonna stop right there and we're gonna really lit just to be double safe that's about how far we've got right there and what we're gonna do is rien a litt and then re sand that cut edge just to make sure we're not seeing any cracks forming if you see a crack forming now's the time to take care of it before it gets big and just like before I'm using a regular propane torch taking my time and waiting for it to turn that purple color and unlike ferrous metals quenching it actually doesn't har like it would like a steel or iron or something like that non-ferrous metals like gold and silver and copper they don't harden like that totally different animal alright there's that purple color we're looking for again and we'll go ahead and quench it now we're going to sand this edge and inspect it for cracks alright you can see now we're looking really close at this thing to see if there's any cracks or micro anything out of the ordinary all you want to see is perfectly smooth so that is pretty much where we are now now that we really were sanded we're going back to folding it some more and the key here is the closest thing all the way up on this folding mandrel and try keeping it perfectly level as you do so alright I think we are there let's take a look at it here is what we came up with now you can see it's totally closed upon that mandrel and that's what we're looking for and you can double check it by pulling off and seeing if there's an indentation and there is a nice indentation all the way around we did a good job so it's time to really land then go from there now that we've made it this far we need to start talking about ring size if I was to throw this on the ring stretcher right now you probably stretch it out to right around a size 16 and what we want to do in order to the size this is be three sizes larger than our target size and that's it so if that was the case if it was a sixteen if we were making a size thirteen ring we'd be right on the button but if we need to make it larger when you stretch it beyond the 16 - you know whatever three sizes larger than our target size would be if we're doing it smaller we need to Swedish wrap it so I need to make this thing into a size nine and a half and in order to do that I need to Swedish wrap this thing down to a twelve and a half so that is gonna be our next step first step is wrap this thing in teflon tape I use a good teflon tape from Lowe's not that cheap stuff from Harbor Freight and wrap it 25 to 30 times and hey let's face it Teflon is cheap let's just do thirty right no big deal now that we're all wrapped and ready to go we're going to get Jason's works 1.0 by 1.4 Swedish rap dye it's a larger one put it in their coin edge side up and then we will press it down now we could use the brass plungers that come with Jason's dies or we could use one of these Ross coin ring followers coin ring pushers I really like these things it just doesn't you don't have to unwrap and rewrap coins all the time and you can do it in one fluid motion so we'll just put that down in there and press it down and remember with this just slow and steady slow and steady alright I think we are good and here's what we came up with the detail is still saved you can see it hasn't come through the teflon tape which is exactly what we're looking for we'll peel that off till gorgeous good deal so now what we're gonna do is reel it and then stretch it out like I said three sizes larger than our target size I'm going for a nine and a half so I means I'm gonna stretch it out to a twelve and a half now we're gonna take our gold Eagle coin ring edge side coin edge side up and put it on to our ring stretcher but remember that steal the gold contact we want to avoid because we want all that detail on the inside still so we're gonna do is double up a grocery bag over the top of the splines to make darn sure nothing touches that gold so we want it to be perfect when we're done okay we'll bring it down till it's snug and then we're gonna give it a crank and then turn this a quarter turn every time we stretch it and pull it up and check it often and what we're looking to do is close this thing completely up on this ring stretcher now that we have this thing stretched out to three sizes above our target size which for my case is a nine and a half now we're going to reduce it down to a full-size below the target size which is an eight and a half and the reason we're doing that is we want this to be a nine and a half more finished but there's a sharp edge inside the ring we need to get rid of that in order to make it comfortable to wear so if you reduce it down a full size below the target size when you get done cleaning that edge up it'll be exactly the size you need it to be my purpose is I'm going to use the die plate on the bottom of the derstand ring stretcher if you have a Chinese ring stretcher like one of those blue ones over there and you would use one of Jason's works dies the 17 degree dies and make sure you use a little pep a loop or burro life on the coin edge side that we're going to be reducing so that way it slides nice and smoothly down the die give it a couple taps just to make sure it's nice and level now slowly reduce it stop and check it often so that is beginning to straighten out now and what we're really looking to do is if you over reduce it in a 17 degree die see those little tiny stars and the towards the outer edge those are the first line to get smooshed and you don't want to smush those so bring it down to almost your target size I would say within half the size of a nine and a half and then finish it off in a doming block or a 25 degree die up Jason's I have my doming block inside my six ton a frame press rate get some of that pepe Luber life again on that to make it slide easily in the dapping block and all we use to press it down inside of a six ton press is one of Jason works coin ring anvils it just gives you nice even pressure as you're pressing alright I'm gonna do one press and take a look at it so this is what I've come up with it is exactly on eight and a half and now we have a taper you know going the other way so what we're gonna do now is reduce this side to make it match the other side make it perfectly symmetrical all right this is what we came up with beautifully even sitting exactly at eight and a half and now we have two very very carefully remove that sharp edge on the inside of the coin ring with a deburring tool now take your time check often do not hit the detail on the inside now we have it deep bird on the inside there's no sharp edges it's not rough it's nice and rounded and but it does have a little bit of chatter marks from the deburring tool so we need to get rid of that and the way we do that back to our sandpaper again and just slowly and carefully sand it inside until it's perfectly smooth all right if you've made it this far you've got a nice looking coin ring now it's time to finish it and what we use to finish it is some 4-0 steel wool just to get some of that dark off of it and then we'll polish it out start real gently on the inside then we'll do the coin edge side now we're going to carefully do that outside now I'm trying to intentionally leave some of this black on there because it looks good when you're finish gets a little contrast but if you wanted to you can keep going and totally remove it and then polish out you have just a perfectly polished gold coin ring and so now the next step I have a disposable jewelry wipe I get from Walmart and we're gonna polish we're gonna polish this thing out alright guys that was how to make a one ounce gold eagle coin ring I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did and if you want to check out some coin rings that I make go to WWE and you can wear net you can see them for sale there and also you can sign up for a coin ring workshop there as well alright guys thank you very much

Channel: Change You Can Wear

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Keywords: gold, eagle, double eagle, coin, coin ring, how to, coin rings, silver eagle, stacking, silver stacking, walking liberty, Franklin half dollar, investing, jewelry

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Length: 13min 14sec (794 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 10 2017