Reading some of the comments it seems quite a few kinda dishing the man a little about the cheap tools , i'm pretty sure he said that if your just starting you can get these beginners tools . and showed they could work , and go from there !

if you used a brass hammer or a brass drift on your stretcher you would have the benefits of a metal hammer and the benefits of not damaging your tool.

The only thing your missing here is your torch to aneal ( heating ) the metal as you strech it. Working on metal hardens it which is why you get cracks and splits. It you heated it to red hot after every step, that wouldn't happen. I'm a Jeweler. I am excited to get into coin ring making ! Thanks for the ideas !

Hes going to get that off there come bleed or blister ! great video , very informative .

This is a great video to show how you don't need a million dollars in tools to make something! The only tip I'd like to add is in terms of removing the center spike from the stretcher. If you were to take a piece of 2x4 (or even a piece of 1x3) and drill a hole that is just wide enough to fit the area below the stretcher rings, but not wide enough to allow the bottom collar to fit through. Drill it near the edge so that you can cut the sides and wind up with a "U shaped" area. Clamp it to a bench so you can slide the unit in from the side. That way, the stretcher will be supported by the collar, and the force will be directly on the spike. So much of the force of each blow is being absorbed by your hand being deflected. It's like trying to hit a ball that is moving away from you. It's the same principle as the bracing blocks on the press. Imagine trying to just hold the punch set underneath with only your hand. All of the force would be absorbed as your hands is pushed down. Hope this helps.

I aneal my coins every time I change their appearance to avoid splitting the coin / ring, when I first started making coin rings I did not aneal enough and split many, the most important step is to ensure that You are annealing enough, much easier to work with the coin and tools if the silver is soft

Thank you for the best of the dozens of instructional videos I've watched!

For us beginners this is the best tutorial on you-tube, nice job 👍

Just made a '72 half dollar. You have to anneal. Yes I did this your way without all of the fancy tools and dies. Nice work. I used the same forming block, lol and stretcher etc. Keep on rockin it brother!

Try a rubber mallet on your tools. More heft.

If you use some burrlife or coconut oil you won’t struggle so much. Use it where any two surfaces touch when forming. Plus it can help keep the details on the coin.

Dude you don't need a 20-ton press with a harbor freight coin puncher. I have one and you can hit it with a hammer just like the little one you have there.

First time seeing material like this appreciate the craft 🦾🦾🦾

Thanks for showing us a cheap way to enter this hobby. May I suggest lubricating the rathburn spike.

Making rings here for years i love the way you keep it simple. Using the domingblock for the first press is very helpfull. Minute 26.50 in your video, instead of hamering it out you might use the press. Thank you for the great video👍👍

Thanks for the well-explained, upfront video, much appreciated

You: "I don't want you to be that guy" Me: "I think I wanna be that guy, since I discovered jewelry making thanks to my girlfriend who's been making jewelry for years, I don't care how much the tools may cost, I want things done fast & perfect with least human effort, so I'mma get all the best tools available :)"

You could make a plunger up stop as I’m sure most punches are within 2 inches. So set the upper stop block so it only goes up 1-2 inches after the punch struck.

Like the video, hate that you used ebay as links because every single one is a dead link. Probably should have used something that might last.

Turn your ring over on the mandrel I've made over 50 rings with the same foot of pvc.

Thank you for sharing!

thanks for the knowledge!

Thank you, I am just about to expand a little business from making keyrings, necklaces from coins and about to invest into coins. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge gained by research and hard work! Good job buddy.

HEY DUDE YOU KNOW WHAT I USE FOR THE STRETCHING AND HOW YOU GOT THE RING STUCK? All around on the mandrill even just when it’s barley getting curved in day from the damping block. Seriously try some PVC pipe. You can cut the edge to any shape you need. I use a full circle and a half circle. That’s just at the end of the pipe. To use it with the hammer going down or whatever. It won’t scratch and you can hammer it down and go right over the mandrill if the pipe (pvc) is way to big or to small that’s why I have one at the end as a half circle. This helps because the pvc pipe can’t slide over the shaft and connect with the ring. Hope this helps I’ve never thought about explaining it. Works super super great..! Think hammer and chisel but your chisel is a plastic pipe. 👍🏽 use the grey ones they are 100 times stronger. Maybe not a 100 but you know..

Some tools are absolutely, 100 percent worth the extra money. Had I known when I started making jewelry what I know now, I would have just invested in better tools. The dapping set from harbor freight that I got for example, has a 2'' convex dome in the block, but the largest punch is about 1'' um.... then when you take into consideration the time spent to finish them properly and the money on the tools needed to do said finishing, if I did a great deal of dapping, it would have been worth the money to just buy a proper dapping set.

Thanks for the video, always good to listen to the voice of experience, we can all learn more, none of us no everything. I'm almost 70 and still eager to learn and increase my scope of knowledge. Thanks again

You might try a brass hammer. Will not mushroom the metal.

Great video. Thank you.

Very interesting video. Breaks down the steps in simple format to understand. Also nice knowing you do not have to invest in expensive equipment to get started. Thanks for the video!

A wonderful and distinguished channel. I wish there was an Arabic translation.. Thank you and we are always waiting for your new one

Good video, thanks for sharing, I learned a lot.👍

Use a hose clamp to compress the stretcher so you can move the ring down. Annealing will make your work easier too

Thank you very informational video 👍🏽👍🏽🇲🇽

Hey bud I may be wrong but it seems like your listing your press every time you use it? Is that right? If it is I hope you do know you don’t have to do that at all. All you need is just enough to pull out and insert.. that alone will save you so much trouble/time. Don’t know what kind of jack you have. The ones that can be turned like a screw can be fixed up in a way I can’t believe they don’t sell it as an option. Hook up a cordless or corded drill. Especially those little impact drivers they make now. Very simply it would do all you need in a super small fraction of the time.if you have one that pumps up and down. You can still use a drill you just need to build or by an adaptor that will kinda work like under the truck. The way kinda of like anU-joint the drive shafts. Trani.. that kinda deal. To be able to go from a circular motion through the adaptor would slow it to go round.. hope this helps a tiny bit dude.

One thing I would like to mention is that if you have an arbor press you will not be punching holes into coins with it. You need a hydraulic press to do that. But if you are worried about punching a hole with only a hammer (place the punch and die on wood base not stone or concrete) don't it's quite easy to do

Thanks for the info! Is there a smaller alternative to the 1 ton press? I don’t have the space for one, but I also don’t want to make too much noise hammering.

Old school i love it!!!! Cool video btw really good video it’s how I started also.... your voice reminds me of a mellow fencekid

I would, instead of buying that stretcher, buy the next smallest die and put the ring on top of the die, then you shove the cone through the cutside of the ring to stretch the ring out! It stretches evenly around the band instead of just 6 individual points!

I do not know shit but i have a sugestion. Perhaps you could put a sacrificial ring on the madril before the proces, which can then be used to knock down the ring that is stuck.

A little bit of silicaone lube on that metal stretcher would go a long way.

just use a metal softer then the metal your hitting perhaps brass

Life is a learning experience, even for seasoned coin makers , you need to learn how to use the press 😂😂😂.

Thanks

so instead of using the metal hammer on the ring stretcher and ending up with a flared punch, have you tried a deadblow hammer or a rubber mallet? just curious, i amm not even positive that it would work, also loved the video! very informative!

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Great video! Very helpful!

Somebody ripped you off! Your “20 ton press” says “12 ton” on it! Ha!

Thanks for the great points im wondering how i would make a size 6 ring

Hello from Australia, Love your content, have only just started researching coin ring making, and found this video of yours but I was wondering, do these North American tools from Harbor Freight, will they work with Australian coins? I am just a beginner so I do not want to make assumptions based on my lack of knowledge in this craft. Thank you so much for your knowledge, wisdom, time, and best efforts.

I bought the self centering punch kit and had to smack the f@#k out of it about 10 times with a gympie on florins and 5 times on 50 cent silver rounds. Im mean its exhausting work. Im buying a 6 ton press tomorrow and using that with the SC punch.

Get you a brass hammer to drive that ring stretcher apart!

☀️☀️☕️. HELLO. ! Where can I purchase the. Blue. Quarter. GUIDE for center punching. ~ your links are very difficult to find ! Ty ☕️🌞

I didn’t see any kneeling going on. Is that a necessary step in this process? Do you need to use the kneeling on silver, do you need to use annealing on regular cloud coins? Appreciate any answers. I think your video was super!

Where can you get the double sided folding dies for silver Dollar, half dollar, and quarter's.? I saw on one of your videos that you had them and the coin size was marked on them, thank you

So wait- just to clarify, the 1 ton arbor press you use around 11:00- is that enough to punch a nice clean hole all the way through on its own? Or do you need the 20 ton press?

Where did you get your arbor press? Tons? $? Thanks

went toi the FOLDING BALL SET on your website link and it shows CURTAINS !!????

I have a question regarding making coin rings. I have practiced on steel coins (which don't need to be annealed, btw) and made a couple of silver ones as well. But non of mine ever turn out looking anything like the ones I see made in videos. Even the coins with relatively deep images in them seem to have weak images at the end and after polishing the images are all but invisible. What am I doing wrong? I am using the exact same tools as shown in the thumbnail for the video. I bought a folding die set as shown and the stretcher as shown separately. I have made rings out of 25¢ coins both steel and one silver. The silver one split but that was my fault for not annealing it at all. How do you get the dark contrasting coloring as yours have at the end? Just wearing the rings rub the contrary away. The steel rings dull to grey and even rust if worn overnight and the silver ones polish off the dark parts

A machinist hammer or a brass hammer will work better

Do you do consignment?

If u stop ur hydraulic jack from going all the up, u don't have to jack it down the 4 inch back to ur work Every time

This hobby or small business is a disease you want to get the best tools. I started 6 years ago with the basic tools now I all the new toys. Hahaha

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How many $.25 rings does it take to buy a $500.00 ring stretcher?

Can you just not cut the ring with a jewellers saw?

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