Unicorn Coin for daughter, playing w fiber

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Playing with metal blanks. These are ferrous coins with a plating.
Made on a 20w fiber. I am playing with getting different textures and shades by altering the frequency. I am also experimenting with burn order, which has a seemingly bigger impact on a fiber than co2/diode.

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I had some pretty bad overburn due to the number of passes. I also believe the plating may be non uniform and was causing some discoloration issues.

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My second try. It came out much better running the background tones first, then looping back to the unicorn last.

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Here is the file I am working on. The separating the layers for the different tone is fun.

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Very nice. Where did you get the blanks from?

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Santa :laughing: Amazon…will try to pry exact link from the elves.

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They look like brass…?

I get mine from Amazon, they have all kinds of metal coins.

:smile_cat:

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They do look brass. A magnet grabs, however. Also grabs their “aluminum alloy” one. :laughing:

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…The Chinese can do something we can’t :wink:

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They look like they have a thin brass layer that covers a blank of some other metal. That isn’t a bad thing. Once you got your settings right so that you etched the brass off without overdoing it…but, if a magnet attracts the coin my guess is that it won’t be that durable. There will be corrosion as the steel rusts.

As to why the magnet attracts the aluminum ones, maybe they are permanently spinning over the misdiscription.

Worst part, though, is that the coin blanks on Amazon are so dear.