Geocaching Wooden Nickels

This instructable is for those of you who what your own personal geocoin, but don’t want to pay that $200 price tag to go with it. 
It’s A LOT cheaper to make your own wooden nickels than it is to have them made.  Most companies on the net have a min. order of 500 and can cost about 50 cents each to make.  With this instructable you can make start making your own coins for less than $10 worth of supplies, then after that make them for less than 20 cents a piece.

Step 1

List of things you need:
Computer & printer or memory device
Laser photo copy  (about 9 cents at your local copy shop)
Non poly nylon paintbrush  (sometimes you have these laying around, or about $1)
Regular paintbrush or foam brush  (sometimes you have these laying around, or less than $1)
Wooden disk (about $2-$3 at Michaels or Joanns)
Glass jar with a lid  (you might have 1 laying around, or $1 at Joanns)
Acetone  NOT NAIL POLISH REMOVER ($2.50 at Wal-mart)
Polyurethane (clear coat) or clear nail polish (Polyurethane $3-$5, clear nail polish $1)

Comments

[skiedra]

I'm very temped to start geocaching myself. From what I read it is fuuun :)

[buteomont]

Acid tone?

[seolfor]

I believe the author means Acetone.

[80$man]

Cool stuff! Crazy idea: have tried printing directly vernier (thin sheet of wood used in decoration of furniture)? I'm am still new to Geocaching, looks very much fun!

[Galonii]

I got this idea from someone who used it to copy plans on vernier to make model airplanes, to cut out, it worked easier than tracing them, because they were exact copies.

[jessyratfink]

Looks very nice for the amount of effort. :)