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Andy G Regular user Terra Australis 180 Posts |
I'm trying to add some wear to quieten some silver coins - why bother? Well there isn't a coin shop near me to buy worn coins. I also want to soften a silver Johnston shell.
I've got the coin down to the level of wear I want using 3M P600 emery paper, this was the finest grade they had at B&Q. The question is how do I get them to shine? The sanded areas are dull. I'm going to try using T-cut but if somone can give some advice it would be appreciated. I guess taking them to a jeweller to get them polished would be the pain free way to do it? Well I'm back and for anyone wanting to soften their coins the T-cut worked unbelievably well. I had a mirror finish within a minute! Amazing! A major advantage to making your own soft coins is that you can have a good sharp milled edge in tact. Which is nice. You can also make your own shiners this way. Do enough wearing down and you can make your own copper silver coins. You can have soft copper silvers if you really want... |
Stefan S. Loyal user 235 Posts |
Since i am from Germany,
what is a T_cut??? Cheers, Stefan |
Dark Elite user 406 Posts |
T-cut? Whats that? I take my dremmel and put a cotton buffer on the tip with their high shine polishing compound on the buffer, then I buff away.
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Andy G Regular user Terra Australis 180 Posts |
"T-cut the original colour restorer" made by CarPlan is a product for polishing your car. It's car polish! Readily available in Halfords stores and the like in the UK.
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Dark Elite user 406 Posts |
oh... heh i'll stick to my dremel thanks!
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Leigh New user Ex-Blighty, now Canada 78 Posts |
T-Cut actually takes off the top layer of paint on a car's body, allowing the next layer to show through. With a little *too* much effort, you will rub through to bare metal! T-Cut is an abrasive.
Andy, I had the same problem when I made my silver coins soft. The flattened areas were scratched and dull. I used an oilstone instead of wet-and-dry paper. Just out of interest, how much did you soften your coins? |
Andy G Regular user Terra Australis 180 Posts |
I didn't soften them too much. Enough so that they make hardly any noise, but the design is still visible. I soaked them in bleach afterwards, then polished the raised areas so you get a nice dark outline. I've only been experimenting within the last few hours and they look kind of weird actually, the T-cut makes them extremely shiney which looks kind of odd next to the combination of worn and dark areas. They still look really nice though. And I really like the way soft coins feel when you handle them, they're like silk.
Where can I get an oilstone in the UK? One thing to note is you can only wear down recessed areas by wrapping some emery paper over your fingertip. Obviously an oilstone will only wear areas on the same level. Due to its design, this meant that my first attempt on a Franklin took the raised edge off without touching the central design. I knew T-cut was an abrasive cause I used it to polish underwater camera lenses in a summer job I had a loooong time ago. |
Khopri Loyal user Austin, TX 237 Posts |
Being the newbie that I am, what exactly do you do with a softened coin?
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Andy G Regular user Terra Australis 180 Posts |
A softened coin doesn't make any noise when it slides against another softened coin. This is very useful when you are palming one coin on top of another, or bringing coins out of a finger palmed stack, and for other stack type coin work.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
About thirty years ago David Roth coined the term to describe coins that make little if any noise when slid over each other. No clicks or scraping sounds.
The difference this makes to the magician is the difference between being able to vanish one coin and being able to vanish three or four coins one at a time. These are very convenient for routines like 3fly and all that amazing Ramsay material. You might want to start with the T. Nelson Downs routines to get some perspective. Then the Ramsay and Roth material will make more sense. 3fly was my way of demonstrating I had made progress towards a working knowlege of the Ramsay/Vernon routining ideas. By the way, old Half Crowns offer advantatages to half dollars.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Leigh New user Ex-Blighty, now Canada 78 Posts |
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On 2003-01-04 20:08, JonTown wrote: I'm afraid I can't let you leave that sentence hanging there...what advantages does a half crown offer over the half dollar? |
Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
they are: thicker (so a stack of 4 is higher) a bit larger and already pretty soft if you get silver ones. And both foreign and antique so not confused with money.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Alex W. Loyal user 211 Posts |
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On 2003-01-04 20:57, JonTown wrote: This wouldn't be an advantage for me; I wouldn't be able to palm many of them. |
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