Making a Spinning Newfoundland Coin Ring

So I found this coin from Newfoundland at the coin shop the other day. Kind of cool design on it and I wanted to make it into a spinner ring but instead of making a spinner base out of a morgan dollar I was wanting to make it like just a regular piece of fine jewelry. In order to do that I would usually carve something out of wax like this and then do lost wax casting but most of you guys don't have that kind of setup so I'm thinking about trying to take some scrap silver that we have and then cast an ingot and cut out a morgan dollar sized ingot and then make that into our base. Get ourself an ingot. What we need to do is anneal it. Even though we just cast it we still need to anneal it and soften it before we start rolling it out. It's a pretty wide piece of metal you want it to be very soft so you don't mess up your roller with too much pressure. Got done about a millimeter. Let's re-anneal it do it again. Let's cut ourselves out a disc with this now. Years ago I bought this on Etsy some some some random tool maker on Etsy because I wanted to have something to cut out a morgan sized disc. I thought they forgot about it so I was cleaning up the other day and I found it. Oh wow take a look at this. That was not a good idea. Well let's just try hammering on this stump out front of the shop. Oh boy looks like this is deforming the metal. This is a brass mallet. This is not a very good tool. Well this is the last time I'm going to make something with this. Hey what do you know it worked. I was thinking back on this brass mallet initially bending this thing and I thought wow there's a ringing endorsement for Jason's Works Tools. I bought this because it was cheaper and it was just some random thing that Jason didn't make and on Etsy just a random tool seller had good reviews. This is the cheapest metal to build a punch out of. Yeah I've never had that happen with any of Jason's tools. Speaking of nice tools we're going to use Jason's auto punch to cut the center hole on this guy. We'll go for a three quarter inch punch. Okay got our base ready to go. Well from here when I came back from lunch I didn't realize that my microphone was dead so we're gonna have no sound for this section but basically what we're doing now is folding this just like we would a regular morgan dollar coin ring and you'd probably wonder why since there's no coin details to preserve why would we be wrapping it with teflon tape and really basically it comes down to it provides that less resistance as it's being pushed to this die so we're using it for more or less lubrication at this point. Turn it back around and then do the exact amount of pressing that we did the other way to make sure that both sides are perfectly parallel with each other. Now what we're going to do is we're going to tighten it onto our metal lathe cut the surface off and make it perfectly smooth and even and once we've done that we'll cut the sides to get any odd you know unevenness out of that. Once we have a perfectly even coin blank we're going to go ahead and make the coin ring that will fit over the top of that. So we're going to go through the exact same steps basically that we did for the morgan dollar. I'm just going to do a little more abbreviated video here. And from here we're going to sand both sides down to thin this this coin ring out a little bit so that way you have just the design that you want as the spinner and nothing else. And we'll cut the inside out bring it down to just a little bit over a millimeter about a millimeter 1.3 millimeters and then polish it up so that way it'll slide smoothly over the top of the spinner. Now we're going to cut our channel out now that we know the width of that spinner portion and we'll sand all the edges that we just got done cutting and smooth out the outside with the sanding stick. So what we're going to be doing pressing this down to where this will fit over the top of that and we'll stretch this back out that we have the entire thing joined and it spins going to finalize our ring size on the inside. So we're going to clean it up taper it make it a comfort fit on the inside and we'll antique it and polish it up. I love the way this one came out it looks really good. It's amazing to me that you can take some old coin in a bag somewhere that was probably going to get melted down eventually and turn it into something that looks this good. All right if you guys are interested in this ring it's a size 11 and three quarter it's going to be going for $399. Contact me through my website changeyoucanwear.net