My Little Coin Box Project

[Danny-boy]

Hi all,

I have been looking for a suitable box for my lunar series 2 typeset. That's 0.5oz to 10oz of the same design. Here's a pic of the coins in question...

I have found them, but the price has put me off a tad (around £50 delivered) - I could buy silver for that money!!!!

Anyway, I decided I'd make my own. Whilst I'm fairly handy, a nice box is beyond my ability so the search began. Was quite specific on size, so not an easy task in itself.

Then I stumbled across this art set from Rymans: -

http://www.ryman.co.uk/ryman-art-set-57-piece

So I bought one from our local shop (2 minutes from work) for the princely sum of £6.99

I ripped out all of the crap, saving the coloured pencils for my little daughter, a bonus for her.

I then set out measuring the Perth Mint capsules with digital calipers and set out the layout to scale using autocad. I use the program at work. I decided the lion privy should be part of the set, and it looked better layout-wise so it ended up a 6 coin set.

So now it looks like this......

A couple of pics of the box, not the most amazing quality box but for £7 it's pretty good.

The lid will be filled flush with black tight-bubble foam and the base I'm undecided on at present.

Possibly MDF with holes cut in and wrapped in blue velvet effect material, or possibly black foam as per the lid with holes cut with a hot knife.

I know some "purists" will hate this project, but I thought I'd give it a go anyway.

Let me know what you think.

[morezone]

Good luck with it and I'd love to see the finished case.

[HighlandTiger]

Can't wait to see the finished article. if it's good enough, you may have the beginnings of a nice little side line business 

[Agpanda]

check out if there is any flockin companys near you, if so ask them to helpo you.

[Danny-boy]

Cheers gents.

As for a business, I think I'll skip that.

I need quite a few cases myself. Ha ha

[Pete]

Good thinking - I wish you luck cutting out perfect holes.

Keep us posted on how you succeed.

[Ares]

Could be reasonably lucrative, I bet there's a reasonable demand for custom cases for a selection of coins on the web.

[Danny-boy]

Good thinking - I wish you luck cutting out perfect holes.

Keep us posted on how you succeed.

Cheers, apparently if you compress the foam fully and cut round the capsules with a scalpel, it should give a very good edge.

We shall see!!!!

[garthy]

Great idea Dan, looking forward to seeing the finished article.

[Danny-boy]

Great idea Dan, looking forward to seeing the finished article.

Cheers Garth, me too!!!

Dropped the coins in the box to check layout worked.....

Think it looks nice.

I'll be using the cut-out foam and cutting it laterally to provide a base so all coins (all different thicknesses) sit flush with the face of the base foam.

[garthy]

Yeah should be quite easy to cut the foam, good idea, gonna look great. Lets hope they don't release a kilo horse

[Danny-boy]

Yeah should be quite easy to cut the foam, good idea, gonna look great. Lets hope they don't release a kilo horse

They already have!!!

Not sure how the dark grey foam will look surrounding the coins, I'll try it and see.

If it looks shit, I'll figure out covering it somehow.

[Danny-boy]

Current costs are £6.99 for the box and £5.49 for the foam (enough to do two boxes).

So if it works out, that'll be £9.73 for the box and foam.

Foam should be here by the end of the week, let's wait and see what it looks like!!!

[Shamatti]

That looks like a pretty fab project matey! Cant wait to see the finished product. I think black velvet would be a nice lining.

[Danny-boy]

That looks like a pretty fab project matey! Cant wait to see the finished product. I think black velvet would be a nice lining.

Cheers Sham.

I like the idea of black velvet, just not sure how it would sit over the foam.

If it doesn't work, I might need to make the base out of MDF and cover that.

[doogs]

I'm interested to see  how this turns out.

Good luck with cutting the foam! (Maybe it'll be easy but I'm not so sure)

[motorbikez]

Good luck with it Danny, interesting project keep us posted how it goes.

[StackemHigh]

You got to like the idea even if the end product ain't the best.

 

I got high hopes for it though.

 

It has given me a couple of ideas to box up a SGB Series of Dissent as a six coin set, Four reverse sides, one obverse pirate and the reverse side of double pirate in a wooden box of some kind.

[silversword]

I've thought about making something like this but haven't got started. Will be interesting to see how it progresses (in other words, I hope to learn from your mistakes  ).

[Danny-boy]

Ooh, slight update.

Was on a site earlier today and got myself some black closed-cell foam. Boom. 20mm thick too, just perfect.

I'll try a test cut this evening.

[doogs]

How are you going to cut the circles? Genuinely interested in this as I've thought about doing something similar but can't think of a way to cut the foam neatly.

[Danny-boy]

How are you going to cut the circles?

Very carefully!!!!

Have a new box of scalpels, so they should do it fine. Will cut around the capsules.

Have done the box lid insert, looks fine. Have cut the base insert to size and I'm just about to cut the holes.

Done a few test holes and they came out fine. Just got to get it perfect 6 times in a row now!!!

I think it will need covering in fabric though, but that's the easy bit.

Will report back soon.

[Danny-boy]

Right, foam is done.

Because you have to cut at an angle, you don't need packers behind to take up the width difference, just push them in until they are flush.

Anyway, pics.....

Like I said, the foam could do with covering with something really, but I'm not sure how a material (baize, velvet etc) would work around the holes.

The foam is very forgiving (always cut slightly smaller holes and slightly too big for the box base insert, and it squeezes in nicely. Material wouldn't be forgiving at all.

Let me know what you think.

[Agpanda]

Looks great M8!

[silversword]

Agreed, great job !