Hobo nickels: intricate carvings in coins - GIF and photos

**ranald** · Jul 8, 2019, 07:30 AM

We have a local guy who makes all manner of stuff from deformed bar (much larger than these minatures) but his red bellied black snakes really look the part. I considered buying one and fixing in my rainforest but very expensive; besides I have the real thing, LOL.

**ranald** · Jul 8, 2019, 07:48 AM

Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

Lol, but it's GRS. . .they make engraving equipment. And a bit costly for the run-of-the-mill hobo.
I can just see the guy on a streetcorner now; "Please help, my gravers are dull, my sandbags leaking..", and anything else he can felt-pen on a scrap of cardboard.

Dylexia: its a bugger (see different spelling, words jump all around the page, write gobbledgook, etc): probably why I have a weird punny sence of humour & all sorts of trouble during school years & beyond & the beat goes on like Sonny Bono.

Every drama has a bright side: really funny thing is that all those very long numbers on the old computer printouts (early 70s) were a sinch for me to see the wrong ones ,somewhat like colour blind folk seeing camo during WW2 etc. When I was doing computer control work back then, what took others hours to scan printouts took only minutes for me

whereas reading a few pages is really hard work. Ha Ha.

**Frank S** · Jul 8, 2019, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by ranald

Dylexia: its a bugger (see different spelling, words jump all around the page, write gobbledgook, etc): probably why I have a weird punny sence of humour & all sorts of trouble during school years & beyond & the beat goes on like Sonny Bono.

Every drama has a bright side: really funny thing is that all those very long numbers on the old computer printouts (early 70s) were a sinch for me to see the wrong ones ,somewhat like colour blind folk seeing camo during WW2 etc. When I was doing computer control work back then, what took others hours to scan printouts took only minutes for me

whereas reading a few pages is really hard work. Ha Ha.

I hear ya kind of like being able to spot an 8 or 6 or 3 in a field of 9's almost instantly or the 3 in a field of 8's

**Jon** · Aug 15, 2019, 12:37 PM

**Jon** · Sep 2, 2019, 11:59 AM

Monkey king Morgan silver dollar. The engraver is Aleksey Saburov. More of his work is here: https://www.saburovart.com/.

I like what he's doing here by using hobo nickels as watch faces:

**Toolmaker51** · Sep 3, 2019, 05:14 PM

The monkey king or knight may not be winged, but saw immediate connection to my favorite monkeys of all time.
Can't find a decently presentable gif. clip, but they'd be the minions in "Wizard of Oz"

**Rikk** · Sep 4, 2019, 07:25 AM

Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

The monkey king or knight may not be winged, but saw immediate connection to my favorite monkeys of all time.
Can't find a decently presentable gif. clip, but they'd be the minions in "Wizard of Oz"

I hope this works.

Scary buggers...

Click the image to see them in action.