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Melamine lacquer on copper coin.

AndyP

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Has anyone done this?
I’d like to insert a ½p coin into a wooden something, probably a small bowl, Will finishing with melamine lacquer (Chestnut’s) keep the coin from tarnishing over time?
 
I might be inclined to do my pore filling epoxy practice to fill the wood pores and cover the coin, with your choice of finish over the top.

I think the coin would need to be let in the wood far enough for the highest part of the coin to be level with the wood, so the epoxy can be sanded down to wood level.
 
I have never used a pore filler on anything, normal practice is sanding sealer followed by lacquer, or wax.
This is just a germ of an idea at the moment and a bit of an in joke with my brother. I envisage setting the coin, tails up, perhaps in the centre of a small bowl and yes would be level with the wood, likely to be some oak offcuts he gave me after he had a porch made.
 
I can't see why melamine wouldn't work Andy though the couple of times I've inserted a coin into a turning I've just used sanding sealer and wax.

I've made a number of flowers out of scrap copper sheet and pipe and usually let them take on a patina however some tulips were treated with a few coats of hair spray (not mine :ROFLMAO:) which as far as I know has kept them shiny. The little bottles of varnish? you buy to refinish brass door numbers and door handles would work also. Alloy wheel sealer would work as well.
 
I think that any standard clear finish would work well. The likes of Lidl and Aldi regularly have clear cellulose lacquer in. Got to be worth a punt.
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If all the above fail clear nail varnish works really well, just don’t let the Missus catch you pinching hers (DAMHIK!).
 
Thanks all. I’ll have a little test with the melamine lacquer on another coin . I need to get on with this soon and find a 17mm wood bit for the 17.14mm hole required for a 1/2p coin.
 
AndyP said:
Thanks all. I’ll have a little test with the melamine lacquer on another coin . I need to get on with this soon and find a 17mm wood bit for the 17.14mm hole required for a 1/2p coin.
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Yo so need a cnc machine to work to those tolerances. :)
 
Drill chuck in the lathe tail stock, I've a 16mm drill I wonder if the the run out on the chuck would give me the extra 1.14mm :unsure:
 
I have added coins to various projects over the years.
Large bottle in the workshop where they get chucked into.
(GB, Euro, RSA, other African states)

Forstner bit matched as close as possible to coin width.
Good dollop of superglue in hole, coin in hole and then superglue over the top.
Just be weary of gluing fingers to coin :mad:
 
Well in a test piece my 16mm drill made a 16mm hole :eek:

So I tried a ½” square scraper…
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Not too shabby. I’m going to have to be careful when it comes to the bowl. I’ll leave plenty of meat on the base in case the CU fairy visits.
 
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