Abrasha wrote:
jim wrote:
I just made a two headed nickel.
I used a soft 5c collet and bored it to hold the nickel.
Then I made two nickels bored out to .800 dia x .036
deep.[ Half of coin.]
Then I faced and turned a piece of stock to .800 then
I put the bored out coin over the turned dia. Then I
used a live center pushing a bushing against coin to
drive it. Took light cuts about .01 and turned it to
.800 bore size. then I pressed coin slug into the bored piece
and ended up with two headed nickel with no seam showing.
Worked great.
Jim
Have pics if anyone interested.

Would you show the pictures of the process please, because I do not quite
understand your explanation.

While we wait for the pictures, here's my understanding of his
process: Nickels are about .73" thick and .835" wide. He cut
away a .8x.036 section of the Monticello side of each nickel.
He then cut away the rim on one of them, making a .8x.036
disk, which he pressed into the .8x.036 hole of the other.

To cut away the rim, he chucked a .8" cylinder and pressed
one of the bored nickels onto it, holding it there by tailstock
pressure while taking light cuts on the rim.
-jiw