Thread: inlaying pennies?

You could pound them in.

Sorry, I'll see myself out.

That makes no cents at all. boom boom

Thanks fellers,
talk about a bob short in a quid!

Originally Posted by burraboy

Want to put some pennies into some jobs but can't find a suitable forstner or spade bit for a good fit. Do I need to make up a router template? What do youse use?

You need an adjustable spade bit or grind an oversize spade bit to the right size.


Peter.

You need an adjustable circle hole cutter and a drill press to cut a hole in a piece of MDF. Then use a router and straight bit with bearing to cut hole in the wood.

Do you have a Dremel and plunge router attachment?
I'd scribe closely around the penny with the tip of an Xacto scalpel type hobby knife, then freehand with the Dremel.

I just measured a penny I happen to have laying around - 30.9mm. Perhaps a 30mm Forstner bit with waste piece clamped on top and wobble it a bit? Probably no good, but a 30mm Forstner then hand trim slightly with an Xacto knife?

Another possible alternative would be a 32mm Forstner bit, then fill the surrounding gap with epoxy coloured black with pigment.

Contact CARB-I-TOOL and have a router bit made to size. Use in drill press and you should have a perfect recess.

My pennies worth.

Thanks for the serious replies (and the no-so serious). It doesn't look as though there is an off the shelf solution as such. My preference,after consideration of the options, is to go the router template route (ha ha). Reason being that it will leave a flat bottomed hole with no cleaning out do and no deep pointy holes like that you get with a drill bit centre. A bit of stuffing about at first perhaps, but then I'll be set long term.
Or perhaps I'll just go with halfpennies, they are exactly 1" dia..