Hobo nickels: intricate carvings in coins - GIF and photos

[Jon]

Same coin from a previous post in this thread, but here we see more of how it's assembled.



I was poking around to find a dedicated hobo nickel forum (not just a subforum or popular thread from a metalworking or coin collecting site). Thought I found a good one at HoboCarvers.com Forum, especially when I saw that they had a Tools subforum, but it's a ghost town. No new posts in years, and, the worst part, it's a graveyard of broken images! I looked through all of the threads in the Tools subforum. Didn't find many good images except for some posts from a pro engraving tool maker named Steve Lindsay, at AirGraver.com, and struck gold: custom coin vises! More here: Lindsay Engraving Vises, holders and fixtures.








Also pulled the 2016 patent for his Reversible Coin Holder - US Patent #9,448,537