It isn't that i think that asking questions is stupid it is just that your question was a stupid question. i am all up for questions. but if you do not have the brains to answer an obvious question of yours with awnser being in the rest of the forum i am going call you your question stupid. and to answer your question that i have answered already, the main point of making rings like any other type of jewelry is for craft or hobbie. to pass the time with something, as cerb said, one of the coolest ways to pass the time. maybe if i were into anime or whatever the cartoon crap is on you avatar, i wouldn't have to be involved in iteresting hobbies like coin rings.

i would apreciate if we get back to the topic on hand. which was. how does one make a coin ring with only a spoon or other small tools that would be carried on the common ww2 GI, or even ww1 GI. this of course rules out any power tools such as drill and other related tools.

This post has been edited by arza1: Jun 13 2007, 04:50 PM

I have heard of GIs using their government issued jacknkife to carve out the center. Smoothing the inside, however, is a bit of a problem. I'm sure that sandpaper could be found if it was needed. Or, a whet stone that was small enough could possibly do the job.

no, i was clarifying your post. do i have to put it again so you could understand? i said i wanted to know what is its use, then you IGNORED the question, that's why i asked it again. you don't need to accuse me of spamming nor tell me that i'm asking a stupid question. most people in this forum would have responded properly on a question like that and not throw knives at people that reply to their topic. i find your attitude intolerable and to some extent totally annoying.


see? you're actually judging me from something that's probably not a true basis of what i am. do you know why i use the avatar? do you know it's significance? no. i don't think so. because it's very clear that you're easy to judge on people based on what their avatar is. just because i put up an anime picture as my avatar, it doesn't mean i'm obsessed by it and it's all what i care for in this world.

This post has been edited by master_bacarra: Jun 13 2007, 07:53 PM

my great grandmother comes up from florida to indiana every once and a while and we went to visit her at her sisters house in bloomington, in. i remebered this topic and i asked her how my grandpa made rings in the army. she said that she is not sure about how he did it there but she did say how he made them for the kids when he was back home. i guess he acually hit the middle of a dime, out of all things, with a spoon until the dimes center was as thin as tinfoil. then he knocked a hole in it and beat on it until it was ring shaped. i still have doubts that this is possible. mabye be with a different tool. but a spoon would not be my tool of choice.

Every story I've heard is about sailors making the rings. Every ship would have had a major machine shop. I'm sure they drilled the out there.

As for GIs, any motorpool would have had the equipment they needed.