This year I decided to make coin banks for the family and some friends. I had saved the tops from some half gallon juice bottles to use for threads so the tops could be removed when the change was needed from the banks. Was quite the undertaking. I wanted each family member to have one including the two new babies added this year. So all in all I needed to make 50 of these. Some are still in the process but 39 of them were given to family at our annual party on Saturday. Everyone liked them.
I turned a straight section on the lower portion the bottle top threads and used epoxy designed for plastic to set them in place. The tops were turned to fit a 1.5" drilled hole and the centers removed. Cut the slot in the tops with a slot cutter on the router table after the blanks were recessed for the tops and still square. Used a wood hand screw clamp to hold them and save my fingers from harm.
I Drilled the bodies with a 1.25", sized the opening to fit the threads used my Easy Wood full size finisher to hollow the bodies under the threads. Their carbide cutter is simply amazing. I have so far hollowed 50 bodies and have yet to loosen the screw and turn the cutter to a new edge and it is still cutting great.
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Re: Coin Banks
oh my those are sweet...
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Yeowser...! ! ! No wonder the family loved them...!
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Very nicely done Dan.
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