making money- literally
john lucas
I decided to mint my own. This is the project I'm working on. These are going to be my own version of Roman silver coins. That's why I'm asking the painting questions. 1st is a shot of my workbench where I'm carving the templates. I sure will be glad when I get my carving bench built. The second shot is the templates. The one on the left isn't finished yet. The router bit slipped in my router. that's the first time it's happened to me in probably 25 years. I remember it happening a very very long time ago. Anyway I filled the hole with putty and will finish it up tomorrow. Since these are just templates the color of the patch won't matter.
I will be using a homemade Dremel pantograph that I purchased last year. You can see it in the background. the templates are about 5 3/8" and the final coins will be 1 3/8". I will try to sand the inside sections of the coins with the 3M star wheels. I doubt that I'll be able to sand after I apply a coat of sealer or paint. Especially around the letters. That's why I need to find a wood that either doesn't need a sealer or can use a thin bodied sealer like thinned lacquer or wood conditioner.
The backs will be sprayed a sort of metallic almost chrome. The fronts will either be sprayed with that or silver leafed. Not sure I can get the leaf to conform to all the letters so may have to go with the spray.
Anyway I cut up some Bradford pear and will try that tomorrow. Hopefully it will work.
The coins are my made up version. I couldn't find very many photos of coins from that era that were clear enough to read the writing, and I don' tread latin anyway. OK maybe pig latin but that's it. The same with the images. The were either too poor or were incredibly detailed. Way more than I bargained for or possibly had the skill to reproduce. So I made up my own coins that mimic things from that era.
