Penny Desk!

Step 10: I Hate Waiting

And now: you wait.

Your epoxy should take about a day to set up, and two days to cure. Check the label of your epoxy, and go by that to be sure.

When it's fully cured, use a utility blade to cut/scrape off any excess epoxy drips from the bottom edges of your desk, and install it as you would any other surface.

And you're done!

Go show off your new desk to all your friends. Be sure to mention how much "cents" it makes to make a "change", etc. etc.

Comments

[bmelton1]

I will do this with pennies from the year my Wife and I were born.....1972.

[oneyeprod]

Good luck. JK

[Paturnus Prime]

How many pennies will you have to go through in order to get the amount you need? How big a surface are you going to cover? I'm just thinking it will be a challenge to get that many pennies of the same date. I'm not knocking the idea, because it's an unbeleivably cool twist on the instructable. Do you have a trick for getting all coins of a certain date?

[bedwere]

Pennies before 1982 were 95% copper and 5% zinc, and are worth approximately 2.5 cents (see www.coinflation.com).

[Silvester10528]

That's for the pure copper value.

This goes back to the legality of removing the coins from circulation without a permit from the Feds...

[zappenfusen]

Say What?

[Silvester10528]

The older pennies are worth more as copper scrap than they are as currency, but it is illegal to destroy them without a permit from the government.

From what I understand, there is a large community of people that are trying to get permission to legally remove large quantities of 95% copper coins from circulation so they can sell them for the copper value. They actually trade rolled coins for their copper bullion value as if they were ingots...

[bmelton1]

Perhaps I will do a frame for one of our wedding pictures.

[pattymadeit]

A picture frame! That's a great idea! One could also make a frame for a baby shower gift! Love that!

[Kryptonite]

That's a brilliant idea! About how big is the frame?

[gracelesskelly]

Gorgeous and very creative! Well done.

[Darla JZ]

Nice job!
And the wrap around edge on the front gives it such a dramatic look...very much worth the extra effort!
Thanks for sharing~

[rocketsurgery]

Very cool!

[WYE_Lance]

Fun! You certainly deserve my vote for the furniture challenge - good luck!

[action pig]

Very nice! Seems like it would be a good entry for the furniture challenge...