I love watching your channel. I just started playing around with a mini lathe and your videos have addressed and easily communicated information to answer my questions every time. Thanks
I made some of these with old 10p pieces when I was an apprentice. I c/bored one coin out half the thickness of the coin to the inside diameter of the lip near the OD. With the 2nd coin, I turned the OD down to a press fit in the c/bore, reversed it into a smaller ‘collet’ and faced half of thickness off. I then pressed them together in a vice. No need for glue, the edge was untouched and the join was masked by the diameter in the coin. Visually it was perfect, the only giveaway was when you dropped it on a concrete floor, there was just a dull thud instead of the ringing noise.
Hi Steve I found this video very interesting, as I've been making double headed coins for yrs, I find very light cuts WD 40 as lubricant, this will ensure they turn out flat and don't rock around on a flat surface when finished. When joining together I get 3 small spring clamps to hold firm, level with heads level, I've made a aluminium collet like yours but it has a shoulder that can go up to the chuck jaws, it has depth of half of coin, I know when I'm face to size when tool almost touches collet. I dress the outside dia with small fine file I find the soft copper then tends to fill any join, wire wool must try That as final polish.
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I watch your videos with headphones on and I was watching you face off the first coin over and over off in my own little world when suddenly you spoke and scared the crap out of me 🤣
If i remember correctly the old 2&6 and 2 shillings had a knurled edge, using those coins and knurling afterwards could help even more to hide the join.
Grahame Blankley Just that one minor detail. LOL I love it when people bring something to my shop with no idea how to make it. Some of the things people request just makes your eyes roll.
@@grahameblankley3813 superglue or double sided tape on a flat faced bar for mandril for chucking and pressure from the tailstock on the other side once centered in a 4 jaw. coins are relatively soft so using a scissor type knurler could work as they create less sideways tool pressure
I never had a desire to obtain nor possess a "magic coin" until I saw this video. Now I can hardly contain my eagerness to convert nearly all the loose change I possess into a series of possessed metal lucre. I'm not sure what I have to gain by such an endeavor, nor do I know what one is supposed to do with one of these double-headed coins (win coin tosses? that seems hardly sporting, but then again magicians are cheats), but I gues I'll have to spend some time researching THAT.
Ah ah ah ! Just at the end of the video i realized the funny thing ! Not just going on this work for playng with the lathe, the funny is "after" . . . When stayng with friends, for taking any choise, how much times we use a coin ! ! ! . . . . "HEAD or CROSS ? " . . . with your lathed coin you always WIN ! ( a thief sistem, i know, but funny for joking . . . ). Or - in international match of foot-ball, when is to be decited wich team will play with the sun beams agains face , let's decide with a coin . . . "I would prefer HEAD !" ( later no sun beams will be so much strong . . . ) Or . . . having in left pocket the double HEAD coin, and in right pocket the double CROSS coin, you can leave the choise . . . extractig then the appropriate coin . . . really, a thief system !
Yes, he should ( for common law rules, also in Italy is hardly forbidden to destroy or modify coins or money . . . ) BUT ( always we have a "but" . . . ) i'm not sure States of the whole world use to print money as much as gold they own . . . Normally they print much more that they should, and this is also the reason why money lost its power in years . . . So destroyng a coin ( with personal lost ) should be instead a benefit . . .
@@alessandroandrenacci2372 Golden standard was abandoned in 1970's,now money has value only because people think it does. Whole banking system is now on i own you some money and i beleave you will pay it-bank or customer its all based on it. So that coin has a value as much as copper in it ,unless whole society thinks its worthy 5 pounds.When society stops beleving -venezuela happens and money ends up thrown on streets.
My old Dad when I was a boy would flip a coin and say heads I win and tails you lose. Fun to watch your videos
I love watching your channel.
I just started playing around with a mini lathe and your videos have addressed and easily communicated information to answer my questions every time. Thanks
I made some of these with old 10p pieces when I was an apprentice. I c/bored one coin out half the thickness of the coin to the inside diameter of the lip near the OD. With the 2nd coin, I turned the OD down to a press fit in the c/bore, reversed it into a smaller ‘collet’ and faced half of thickness off. I then pressed them together in a vice. No need for glue, the edge was untouched and the join was masked by the diameter in the coin. Visually it was perfect, the only giveaway was when you dropped it on a concrete floor, there was just a dull thud instead of the ringing noise.
Re watching , great video, love the holding collet idea. 👍
Hi Colum. Thanks for watching and for your feedback. Regards Steve
I have to say your fixture is a brilliant idea. So simple but yet my elementary mind never thought of that , thanks for sharing the knowledge
The join looks good from a distance. Nice one.
Hi Steve
I found this video very interesting, as I've been making double headed coins for yrs, I find very light cuts WD 40 as lubricant, this will ensure they turn out flat and don't rock around on a flat surface when finished.
When joining together I get 3 small spring clamps to hold firm, level with heads level, I've made a aluminium collet like yours but it has a shoulder that can go up to the chuck jaws, it has depth of half of coin, I know when I'm face to size when tool almost touches collet.
I dress the outside dia with small fine file I find the soft copper then tends to fill any join, wire wool must try That as final polish.
Love it! Nice job.
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Great project to do Steve, Many of us will have old currency lying about no long in use.
VERY clever! Made your own 'collet'👍👍👍👍👍
Nice job. Thank you for sharing 👍
I watch your videos with headphones on and I was watching you face off the first coin over and over off in my own little world when suddenly you spoke and scared the crap out of me 🤣
I am missing a pile of soft jaws with the mini lathe. This is a good trick to get around it.
Nice 👍
Lovely jubilee 😜
3d ! That's eight fruit salads and four blackjacks or even 6 flying saucers. Half a tanner was worth having back then.
Cool trick
Cool project !
If you did a straight knurl on the edge, it would really hide the joint.
cool video
neat idea!
Real nice
"Curiouser and curiouser said alice"
If i remember correctly the old 2&6 and 2 shillings had a knurled edge, using those coins and knurling afterwards could help even more to hide the join.
Derek Greenhalgh
I would be interested how you hold the coin when knurling it.
Grahame Blankley
Just that one minor detail. LOL
I love it when people bring something to my shop with no idea how to make it. Some of the things people request just makes your eyes roll.
@@grahameblankley3813 superglue or double sided tape on a flat faced bar for mandril for chucking and pressure from the tailstock on the other side once centered in a 4 jaw. coins are relatively soft so using a scissor type knurler could work as they create less sideways tool pressure
Derek Greenhalgh
Hi Derek
Yes I think your right good start any way.
That join is soooo obvious!!!!
In the US I had better try our quarter to make it worthy while or easier to see. But they are a laminate.
If you want to get the patina back just rub on a paste of sulfur.
I never had a desire to obtain nor possess a "magic coin" until I saw this video. Now I can hardly contain my eagerness to convert nearly all the loose change I possess into a series of possessed metal lucre. I'm not sure what I have to gain by such an endeavor, nor do I know what one is supposed to do with one of these double-headed coins (win coin tosses? that seems hardly sporting, but then again magicians are cheats), but I gues I'll have to spend some time researching THAT.
I believe a coin like that could cause someone to get their ass kicked! lol. ;-)
We can only hope!
Ah ah ah ! Just at the end of the video i realized the funny thing ! Not just going on this work for playng with the lathe, the funny is "after" . . . When stayng with friends, for taking any choise, how much times we use a coin ! ! ! . . . . "HEAD or CROSS ? " . . . with your lathed coin you always WIN ! ( a thief sistem, i know, but funny for joking . . . ).
Or - in international match of foot-ball, when is to be decited wich team will play with the sun beams agains face , let's decide with a coin . . . "I would prefer HEAD !" ( later no sun beams will be so much strong . . . )
Or . . . having in left pocket the double HEAD coin, and in right pocket the double CROSS coin, you can leave the choise . . . extractig then the appropriate coin . . . really, a thief system !
Actually I prefer an ordinary coin with the call 'heads I win, tails you lose.....'
Actually I prefer an ordinary coin with the call 'heads I win, tails you lose.....'
@@SteveJordan ah ah ah ! I spent a couple of minutes to understand !
Iper- funny ! ( double face coin were lathed not for you . . . )
Well pennies are not current and legal tender anymore where I come from so I should be good to go. Heads I win tails you lose.
you can deface current legal tender, just dont try use it after
Your hand is awfully close to the spinning chuck!
Optical illusion. He’s not that close. He’s below the chuck with his hand on the carriage wheel.
Is it not an offence to deface a coin that was current in 1969?
Yes, he should ( for common law rules, also in Italy is hardly forbidden to destroy or modify coins or money . . . ) BUT ( always we have a "but" . . . ) i'm not sure States of the whole world use to print money as much as gold they own . . . Normally they print much more that they should, and this is also the reason why money lost its power in years . . .
So destroyng a coin ( with personal lost ) should be instead a benefit . . .
@@alessandroandrenacci2372 Golden standard was abandoned in 1970's,now money has value only because people think it does.
Whole banking system is now on i own
you some money and i beleave you will pay it-bank or customer its all based on it.
So that coin has a value as much as copper in it ,unless whole society thinks its worthy 5 pounds.When society stops beleving -venezuela happens and money ends up thrown on streets.
Have you anything positive to say about this video?
Sorry, no.
Nathan Sweebley I thought so ! Now go and give your head a wobble.