Making a Pro Coin Ring Without Expensive Tools

fantastic I would love to try this but can't afford all that equipment hmm we're doing about that all right so here's what I found it Lowe's it's a coupler of some kind and the cool thing about it is it fits Jason's dies perfectly so what we're gonna be doing is sizing a coin ring without using a press or any kind of special equipment so this is going to fit our die in it we'll put our coin ring in there that needs to be sized and we can put our anvil on top and then hopefully hammer it down and size the thing so we're gonna see if this works but what you need to do right now is cut this thing in half so the first step get rid of these screws then we'll mark this thing out and then cut it so you can use a hacksaw but I have the benefit of a grinder so I'm going to be using the grinder [Music] that was a little rough so I think we're gonna clean it up on the sander [Music] and here's the coin where are we turning into a ring today it's just a regular old non silver quarter this one happens to be a Georgia state quarter and the first type we're going to need to do is cut a hole in this thing and a fancy Auto centering punch so you can get from Jason at Jason's works works fantastic but they're really expensive so when you're starting out you definitely don't need that I'm going to show you how to measure and then cut a hole in your coin with just a pen and a drill so the first step we need to do is find the perfect center of this coin and the way we're gonna do that with this pen and we're going to set something up next to the coin that's kind of more or less the height you're going to need so the stack of business cards will work just fine and then put your coin up against it like that and then rest your pen on whatever you decided to stack up next to it and then spin it and now we have a perfectly centered circle on our coin and the next step now is to punch this so that way we have a nice Center divot to start drilling with all right perfect time to drill it out and now to drill this thing we're gonna drill down some block of wood that we don't mind getting damaged we're gonna put our coin on there and I'm going to try something a little bit different today I'm thinking in order to hold this coin steady while we're drilling it except trying to hold it while it heats up or clamp it I'm gonna try just taping it as tightly as I can to this board and we'll see if that'll work [Music] and this is probably the most expensive part of the whole process and if you don't have a drill borrow one from a friend and if you don't have a friend that has a drill you really do need to reevaluate your friend choices [Music] alright so the tape thing didn't work will still clamp it and the tapes actually going to protect the coin so there you go [Music] it's not working at all all right so the tape thing didn't work I'm going to go ahead and clamp it and this is a good example of seeing the hole that's not perfectly centered now this if the hole goes off Center for for whatever reason maybe the drill bit slides or anything like that we're just gonna remark a hole in a really similar way that we marked the center right around the outside and then just file your way to where it's perfectly centered again okay so now you can see the area we need to cut out so we'll just do that with a half round file button how we need it it looks pretty even all the way around now and just take your time in this step it's really important to get a nice evenly done ring and so that one looks really darn good so I think we are good to go to the next step get a little 120 grit sandpaper and just make sure you sand the inside really really good to make sure it's nice and smooth and there's no rough edges inside at all and now that we have our coin like this we need to anneal it before we start to fold this thing now can you fold this without annealing it yeah you can but you're gonna increase the chance of splitting the coin and it's gonna be a lot more effort to fold it that way but it's definitely possible if you don't have a torch and you want to do this anyway yeah go ahead and give it a shot but what we're gonna do now is anneal it and this is going to be softening the metal making it a lot more bendable without splitting [Music] so now that it's annealed we're going to be putting it on our mandrel and then start hammering it down this mandrel you could use a Harbor Freight teardrop mallet or pretty much any other mallet you have I personally like a rawhide mallet so that's what I'm gonna be using if you're holding on tight to your coins you're hammering it down and move your hands out of the way as you go and that's going to ensure you get a nice even fold [Music] so we headed it down that far so we're gonna pull it off Riaan kneel it so we're reef softening this thing and then putting it back the other way so we could hammer it the rest of the way it's also a good idea at this point to re-sand this cut edge so that way you know you're not gonna get any cracks forming if you see one file it out with a file or send it out with a sandpaper looking good you can see at this point this ring is closed up really nicely around the man there's no weird spots sticking out really or anything like that and that's key to getting a good-looking ring here in the next step so we're gonna go ahead and pull this off the mandrel Rini litigant and then we're going to start to size it this is where this coupler comes into play now I've got it all cut down and it fits our diet that we're gonna be sizing in and now the dye we're gonna be using today is from Jason's works it's a point 9 by 1.0 17 degree dye and this one's going to be fitting in the point 9 sign if you look at this ring it's wider on the top that it is on the bottom and it's got a cone shape which doesn't look really nice right now this ring measures at about 8 and a half so if we wanted it to be any smaller we're gonna have to reduce it in a die so we'll slide it in there and if you have some Peppe lube that's a really good idea to use it'll just help everything slide down the die a little more if you don't have anything like that you can use just bar soap if you want to so we'll set that coin edge facing down in our die put our coin anvil on top that also comes from Jason's works and now we're going to be hammering [Music] [Music] okay check it out we dropped it from an eight and a half all the way to about a six so now it has a cone shape the other way a little bit so we're gonna put it around decide down on the die and then size it down and make the two sides match alright check that out a sized ring without a press that a coin stretch your reducer how awesome is that say you wanted that even smaller than a size six well you can go down a nine by one point Oh 25 degree die and then reduce it down even farther in that and now to finish this ring up we will just get rid of some of this oxidation with some for our steel wool [Music] and then polish it up with the disposable jewelry way [Music] [Music] now I know you're asking yourself well what if I want to make it bigger well that's gonna have to wait for another installment got some ideas there too without any presses alright guys thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed this video and found it useful if you did make sure you subscribe to my channel and then also check out the rings I make on my website change your can we're done alright guys until next time

Channel: Change You Can Wear

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Keywords: Coin, coins, ring, rings, silver, jewelry, silver coins, how to, custom, do it yourself, DIY, junk silver, coin collecting, roll hunting, fashion, style, trending, change, changeyoucanwear, quarter, quarters, state quarter, georgia, easy

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Length: 10min 49sec (649 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 16 2019