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New Member
United States
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Hi All, I finally figured out how to post a picture thanks to Tom. This is a nickel I carved of an Old mule skinner on a Buffalo nickel. Just thought I'd show it in the group. Image:  92250550.jpg69.79 KB Image: 92250712.jpg48.14 KB Now that I know how to post pictures I'll show some of my other nickels. |
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Moderator
 United States
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Nice!  I have never seen a reverse modified before, always just the Indian Head! |
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Valued Member
United States
58 Posts |
Wow. That's some nice work! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5318 Posts |
I really like the depth to the carving. The style also fits my sense of that era.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
Very nice It looks like you spent some serious time on those. BTW, what is up with the influx of hobo carvers lately? You guys are taking over  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2443 Posts |
Aren't you selling a Garfield nickel on ebay? |
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New Member
 United States
24 Posts |
Hi All, Thanks for the nice words about the carvings. I actually do a lot of reverse carvings, I prefer to work on the back of the coin because it's lends itself more to my style and creativity. I carve about 8 different styles, using a number of different techniques to get the look I want for the coin I'm working on at the time. Best thing to do is to look on either of my webpages and you'll see more examples of the different carving styles or email me and I'll send you an invite to my hobo nickel group on Yahoo. You can also do a google search for thehobonickelguy (all one word ) or Mike Pezak to find my webpages. I'm trying to answer all your questions in one post so this will skip around a little bit. lol I don't sell my work on ebay, I really don't look on ebay but I've heard my nickels come up from time to time. As for the influx of carvers, I'm not really sure... I try to encourage new carvers just because this art form is 240 years old and I really don't want to see it fade away. I'm an artist and Jeweler and that's the approach I take for my work. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
527 Posts |
Nice, it had to have taken a lot of patience to make it.
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New Member
United States
24 Posts |
These nickels can take from about an hour to 15 or 20 hours per nickel to carve and even after 20 hours you can always see more that can be done. While the carving time does play a factor in the nickel, subject matter also has a big part to do with the final nickel. Personally, I concentrate more on subject matter and creativity. The carving has to be done to a certain degree to make a carving nice but a well carved boring nickel is just a well carved boring nickel...an exciting nickel with a lot of character is much more interesting to me.
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Moderator
 United States
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Wow I had no idea how much work actually went into it
Do you have a slideshow of before during and after shots of a completed coin that you could post here?
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Valued Member
Brazil
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I'd love to see some pictures of your collection
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New Member
United States
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Hi Graceoutcast,
Well the easiest picture would be the before...lol I'm going to be out of town a lot this week, LA tonight then up to San Francisco but when I get back I'll do a carving and take pictures of it in the different stages of being carved and post them up so you can see.
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Moderator
United States
6563 Posts |
Awesome a time lapse video would be kinda cool if you could take the exact same picture once every 10 minutes or so |
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New Member
United States
24 Posts |
Hi Graceoutcast... Well I'll be home Thursday and you can come over and do the video and post it up...you have to remember my only claim to fame is my carving so I would have to carve the video and try to figure out how to load it up on here...since I'm very close to a computer clutz, I would have a really hard time figuring out how to do that...if you can walk me thru it I'll try my best. I just posted up a bunch of my pictures but they aren't showing up... they are in the coin form someplace and as soon as I figure out where they went I'll let you all know...man, carving coins is a lot easier that trying to keep track of where I post stuff.
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Moderator
United States
6563 Posts |
Pictures are there and are working fine. https://goccf.com/t/32296I altered the first one in the list. Click the edit (pencil) button to see how I did it |
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New Member
United States
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Hi Graceoutcast,
Cool beans, I learn something new every time in this group. Thanks for doing that and teaching me how.
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