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engraver friend of mine dinking around.

Nice work, I love these.

Cool!

Can someone post a picture or a link to the tools used to make these? I whipped out my dremel and a nice fine bit, but all I ended up doing was butchering a nickel.

Just (bing) look under "gun engraving tools".. or "hand engraving"..

Did he use an air powered engraver, or just a regular graver? I just spent a few minutes on youtube and wikipedia and I am intrigued. Guess I should get back to work though. Learning about engraving is not gonna pay the bills right now.

only done by hand. No power type tools.

That's a sweet hobo.

Cool! I love hobo nickels! I taught myself to carve them over the last couple years in my spare time. Good therapy, and makes you money too!

This is so neet!!! Is there an average price that these tend to sell for??

reddirtcoins wrote:engraver friend of mine dinking around.

What would he sell a few of these for??

On e-bay that type usually go for in the mid 20's, but you never know because I often see them go a lot higher. Last fall the market was super hot but then a bunch of engravers jumped into the market so it has come down some. Mine usually sell for between 20-40 dollars. The highest I got was 80, but I heard of a crazy dentist that got over 100 for a couple he busted out last year. You are not going to get rich, unless you are an extremely talented artist. There is one guy who probably makes 1000 a week selling 2 or 3 hobo nickel carvings. His stuff is pretty incredible though.

blackrabbit wrote:On e-bay that type usually go for in the mid 20's, but you never know because I often see them go a lot higher. Last fall the market was super hot but then a bunch of engravers jumped into the market so it has come down some. Mine usually sell for between 20-40 dollars. The highest I got was 80, but I heard of a crazy dentist that got over 100 for a couple he busted out last year. You are not going to get rich, unless you are an extremely talented artist. There is one guy who probably makes 1000 a week selling 2 or 3 hobo nickel carvings. His stuff is pretty incredible though.

Thanks for sharing this info..... very interesting for sure. I am goingto start checking them out on ebay etc....