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Hey Mike, what are ya gonna make? I wanted one about 18 years ago. I liad a Buffalo nickel (heads up) down on the table looked at it and drew it on a piece of brown paper sack. Then used it and some carbon paper to trace it onto a piece of 2'' thick oak, cut it out round, routed it out, bored a hole in the center, made a wooden nickel clock, gave it to my Dad. Then, I made one out of Honduras Mahogany (nice wood, Mahogany). The pattern's around somplace but I don't know where. If you have a buffalo nickel, you might try scanning it in and vector tracing it.
Makes me want to make some more clocks! I might try sandblasting or hand carving one. Ain't this a fun job!
[ July 31, 2002, 05:02 PM: Message edited by: Wayne Webb ]
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7405 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
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I teach rod building and fly tying. A class that I taught in Buffalo, NY is actually kinda hanging together, so I thought that I would make them a sign for the "Buffalo Rod Crafters" and send it up there. Use the nickel as a background, letter around the face and put a couple crossed flyrods in the center. That's what's going to happen if I can find some art.
Make a black crayon rubbing on white paper of a nickle (just set some paper over a nickle and rub over it with the side of a black crayon), scan at 1000% size, then either digitize it or print out and project it. Should be vague enough to be a background but enough detail to have a decent representation of a nickle. Pretty much a slant on Wayne's idea.
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Just for the fun of it, I tried scanning a picture of the nickel in question out of a coin book. Different scales, contrasts, etc. Didn't work too well, but then I am not the best with scanning and cleanup.
But, I would bet that same picture placed in a projector would probably enlarge well enough to get a decent drawing from it. Might be worth a try.
-------------------- Bill Preston Fly Creek, N.Y. USA Posts: 943 | From: Fly Creek, N.Y. USA | Registered: Jan 2000
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Try current auctions, and then completed auctions.
I found several good images in the auctions that you can "work" from. None is in vector format, of course, so you might end up having to hand draw it with a pen and ink, then scan to vectorize. I doubt it would take you over an hour.
Good luck, Mike Jackson (I also like to fly fish and tie flies)
-------------------- Mike Jackson Golden Era Studios Jackson Hole, Wy www.goldenstudios.com/ Posts: 390 | From: PO Box 7850 | Registered: Nov 1998
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