Saturday, March 30, 2013

How does Winston do that with his big hands?


Winston first starts to make old looking tiny gold coins.  "I melt down scrap 18k gold into tiny round balls of different sizes"


Winston then takes a front hard steel shaft off of a motorcycle and cut the end of it out with carbide tools to look like a old pirate Doubloon.  



Then Winston sets up a small anvil inside of a open bottom plastic can with a white garbage bag. "so I won't loose the tiny shooting gold coin doubloons down the drain" he say's chuckling to himself.



The next step for Winston is to pound out each ball of gold into a tiny coin, then gold solder "mini hand made gold doubloons one by one" on the gold face of the buckle.
View the finished doubloons polished and attached to the buckle. 




                   View more of Winston's hand carved art at www.winstonbuckles.com

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