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Pennies minted before 1983 are made of mostly copper. With one of those and a few tools you can make a basketball tie tack. Or I can make it for you.
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I started out by doing an image search on Google. Once I picked out the ball I liked I copied and pasted it to windows paint.
I resized the image a few times and printed it out. The goal here is to print out a ball the same size as a penny.
To find a pre-1983 penny simply pull out the pennies that are the darkest in the bunch. Of the three I pulled out, two were what I wanted.
Also grab 4 paper clips, some socket bits and, a pair of pliers.
I resized the image a few times and printed it out. The goal here is to print out a ball the same size as a penny.
To find a pre-1983 penny simply pull out the pennies that are the darkest in the bunch. Of the three I pulled out, two were what I wanted.
Also grab 4 paper clips, some socket bits and, a pair of pliers.
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Thanks for all the awesome Instructables. Im currently working on a few projects inspired by you. :)
Christa
I also use your method of though for my project, I see most objects as just a series of less complicated components.
I recently separated the real copper's from the modern pig iron coins by spreading them out on a table and using a magnet to remove the pig iron ones.
I set them aside to do some kind of artistic project with them, I did a bit of copper beating in my training days at technical collage. I like the wire embossing method and i will keep it in mind when I get my creative head on.
We end up wandering aisle by aisle, picking bits up, holding them up against each other, hoping to figure out if what we find might work for what we want! And the poor employees who try and help us!! They ask what we're looking for, and we can't really tell them because we don't know!
I guess my ideas don't lend themselves toward this sort of jewelry... at least, not yet! ;)
PS. I thinks it's really awsome I got a comment from featured author "caitlinsdad".
The tie chain kinda reminds me of the US Marines globe and anchor. You could probably expand on your technique and have a few hardcore customers in line. I'll just wait for the comments on people thinking it is illegal to modify money coins, hehe.
I recently made a ring out of a coin (unoriginal, but hey :P) and I just love the way that despite how it looks initially, with enough sanding and a final buff almost any bit of metal can turn up looking like quality jewelry!