Has anyone inletted coins?

[Pittsburghunter]

I was just thinking some of the state quarters would look nice inletted into stocks. NH's Old Man of the Mountain comes to mind.

 

[jdixon]

I have had the exact thought. I plan on doing just that with the next Kentucky style pistol or rifle I build - putting a Kentucky quarter in it somewhere. Would ruin the period correct stuff but, I thought it would be interesting and fun - that is part of it isn't it?

 

[gmww]

Please post photos when youb fellas do. I purchased a small compass from Dixie Gun Works a couple of years ago to do this. Just haven't decided if I really want to.

 

[Pork Chop]

A small compass? Isn't that correct for the Red Ryder Range Model 200 Shot Carbine with the thingy that tells time? That is what I hear from Ralphie anyway... :rotf:

I have seen some coins inletted, but have not done it. There have been production guns with coins (not legal tender) inletted. There was a special edition Hawken by Investarm that had a commemorative coin in the stock.

 

[Harddog]

I was just thinking some of the state quarters would look nice inletted into stocks. NH's Old Man of the Mountain comes to mind.

A few years ago an antique shop in my town had a double stack barrel with a double hammer mule ear lock that had a $3 gold piece inletted into the buttstock. The coin was almost worn smooth, but had just enough detail to tell what it was, or had been.

Randy Hedden

 

[Mike Brooks]

I use coins for inlays all the time.....after I hammer threm flat and saw them into various shapes. :winking:
I've bought a couple original guns with coins inlayed in them, they were put there in mnore modernt times. My double flint gun had an old indian head penny chopped into the forestock. :cursing: It wasn't a "good" look. :haha:
I bought a Finnish M91 mosin nagant with a Canadian quarter glued into the unit disk hole too.....must have been a volunteer Canadian division that fought in the winter war... :rotf:
I used to see a gunbuilder here in the mid west that seemed to always inlay a buffalo nickle into the cheek piece on every rifle he made.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Please post photos when youb fellas do. I purchased a small compass from Dixie Gun Works a couple of years ago to do this. Just haven't decided if I really want to.

Better test it first. It may just point to the barrel and lock no matter how you turn the gun. :winking:

I sent White Buffalo a silver quater from his birth year for him to inlay. I better see him pipe up here with a good description of how it turned out. :haha:

 

[brubincam]

those cicil war era coins are kind of expensive, what coin did you give him?

 

[Arrowstorm]

I've never built a rifle, nor have I ever done any inletting, but I think that if I were ever to do any of that, i'd want something a little "less modern". It would get a little pricey, but I think a 1776 reale or something would look pretty darn good inletted into a longrifle stock. Maybe an 182# cent in the stock of a hawkens.. I have a pair of 1851 navy colts with wooden grips, and even a few 1851 large cents to spare. I wouldn't mind seeing them inletted into the grips. Never though of it before now, actually.

 

[bob1961]

did a 2000 golden dollar in my T/C's patch box with the tail side showing....turned out good....will try to find picture and post it................bob

 

[bob1961]

it's going to be mounted on my lancaster....sorry fer the delay :v .............bob

 

[Packdog]

I have seen a coin inlay on a Hawk blade. Don't know how it was attached but...several re-enactor supply places offer reproduction coins that would have a period look. You can find lots of reproduction coins on e-bay also. Most are pewter or some pewter like alloy with a low melting point so soldering them would prove to be a pain or impossible.
PD

 

[Pittsburghunter]

I asked this because of all the interesting coins out there and the fact that it could help show where you are from or your own interests.

 

[dwarvenchef]

I have a few 1839 seated dimes I'm going to inlay on my hawken when I get the wood. I use roosevelt dimes on other projects, hammer them to shape and sand down to fit. I use brass nails to get a color contrast.

 

[doverdog]

I bought this replica of a One Cent piece off Ebay and used it for the cheekpiece inlay on a cherry stocked Tennessee Mt. rifle.

 

[Arrowstorm]

1793 was the mint's first year of operation. That looks sweet, man. Too bad there isn't a way to show both sides of that beautiful coin in the inletting process.

 

[pathfinderifh]

I use coins dated from the early 1800's as thumb pieces. Dimes seem to look the best. I usually can find em cheap at pawn shops and lower end coin dealers. They don't have to be perfect to look good.

Pathfinder

 

[Stumpkiller]

1793 was the mint's first year of operation. That looks sweet, man. Too bad there isn't a way to show both sides of that beautiful coin in the inletting process.

That is nice (and I'd like a repro, myself) but I wonder how they got around the counterfitting laws regarding US coins. It would have to be the "wrong" size so it couldn't simply be silver-plated. All US coins are still legal tender.

 

[Arrowstorm]

by the "fair hobby act" all reproduction coins must have the word "copy" stamped SOMEwhere on the coin. If not the obverse, or reverse, then perhaps on the edge.

If this law is obeyed, private mints can make all the repros they want without legal consequence.

But that's for another forum community....

 

[doverdog]

The coin shown above, the 1793 One Cent piece, was a reproduction, and did have "copy" stamped on the back side. I'm sure various other reproduction coins would be available on Ebay if you needed one.