Hobo nickels: intricate carvings in coins - GIF and photos

**Toolmaker51** · Jul 7, 2019, 01:24 PM

Originally Posted by ranald

that creature is like a bee: it has a GPS

Lol, but it's GRS. . .they make engraving equipment. And a bit costly for the run-of-the-mill hobo.
I can just see the guy on a streetcorner now; "Please help, my gravers are dull, my sandbags leaking..", and anything else he can felt-pen on a scrap of cardboard.

**ranald** · Jul 8, 2019, 06:48 AM

Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

Lol, but it's GRS. . .they make engraving equipment. And a bit costly for the run-of-the-mill hobo.
I can just see the guy on a streetcorner now; "Please help, my gravers are dull, my sandbags leaking..", and anything else he can felt-pen on a scrap of cardboard.

Dylexia: its a bugger (see different spelling, words jump all around the page, write gobbledgook, etc): probably why I have a weird punny sence of humour & all sorts of trouble during school years & beyond & the beat goes on like Sonny Bono.

Every drama has a bright side: really funny thing is that all those very long numbers on the old computer printouts (early 70s) were a sinch for me to see the wrong ones ,somewhat like colour blind folk seeing camo during WW2 etc. When I was doing computer control work back then, what took others hours to scan printouts took only minutes for me

whereas reading a few pages is really hard work. Ha Ha.

**Frank S** · Jul 8, 2019, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by ranald

Dylexia: its a bugger (see different spelling, words jump all around the page, write gobbledgook, etc): probably why I have a weird punny sence of humour & all sorts of trouble during school years & beyond & the beat goes on like Sonny Bono.

Every drama has a bright side: really funny thing is that all those very long numbers on the old computer printouts (early 70s) were a sinch for me to see the wrong ones ,somewhat like colour blind folk seeing camo during WW2 etc. When I was doing computer control work back then, what took others hours to scan printouts took only minutes for me

whereas reading a few pages is really hard work. Ha Ha.

I hear ya kind of like being able to spot an 8 or 6 or 3 in a field of 9's almost instantly or the 3 in a field of 8's