Boots...

Got a package from West Texas Condor, and sent two nickels back in reply. I am sorry that I haven't been online much, and I am afraid that I may have arranged trades that I haven't followed through on. If you are expecting nickels from me, please drop me a note as a gentle reminder. Also, it looks like we have some new nickel traders. I have a bunch ready to go, so if I can ever get online to trade addresses, I'd be happy to trade with ALL of you!

Sent emails to Midnight Faerie, West Texas Condor and Lord Zogat last night. Hope to make trades soon! Boots...

Would be happy to trade with you. I used to live in Eastlake and worked in Mentor.

Ooops.. Pardon the double post.

Yup, they are, you can find them on ebay. LZ Hey Lordzogat, There is a whole forum on the hitchiker section for Wooden Nickel Trading. There is a very active crew there of somewhat ravenous cachers (myself included) who are eager to trade such sig items. Your molded coins would definitely attract lots of attention there. I'd invite you to check out that page, and be prepared to get emails from lots of us wanting to trade sig for sig. Boots...

Let us know when you have a few, we would love to trade!!! I just put the final three coats of polyurethane on the second side tonight. they need a couple of days to dry, but I will h put some pictures up before I head out of town on Friday. I'm currently in the process of stamping out the second side of the next 150 nickels. Poor hobby lobby. They just put their new stock of wooden nickel blanks up yesterday and I cleaned both stores out today. Gotta go back tomorrow for another can of spray on polyurethane and protective baggies. Hope its going well with your new nickles, WestTexasCondor. Let us know when you've got them done. I'd be happy to trade with ya! Boots...

You can use a spray Varnish. I do a first coat on mine, using the spray, because I find that the inkjet inks tend to run if I use a brush varnish on them. So I do a coat of spray first, then brush 2-3 more coats on. I find that the ink still bleeds on the paintbrush after a coat of spray, but it is greatly minimized. I could hit it with another coat of the spray, but I think the spray mutes the colors just a bit. Thats not a problem on the boots side, but it does detract on the other side. The Boots image is my work. I do some semi-pro photography on the side, and so I photographed my pair of boots after a good muddy walk, and them photoshopped it into a collage with the background and beveled the edge of the center oval. As far as aligning it to the coin, I bought a circle cutter and fiddled with it for ever. I cut a scrap paper then taped it to the bottom of the cutter, so that I could see exactly where my cut would fall. Once I got that set up just right (the better part of 2 hours!!), I set out to cut a bunch of the coin patterns. As far as centering them on the coin, well, I just do that by eyeball. I drop a fairly heavy bead of glue on the face of a coin, then press another coin against it, so that the glue is evenly distributed on the faces of the two coins. Then I set one of the designs on the coin and eyeball it to the best I can. The edge of the circle and the edge of the coin are very close, so its pretty easy to eyeball it. Once it's on the face, I then press the coin between my palms to lock it in place. I then affix another copy of the design to the other coin (that I used to spread the bead of glue on the first face). It probably sounds more complicated than it really is. It takes me a few days to put out about 30 or so. Most of that time it just coating with varnish and letting it dry. Hope that helps! Boots...

haven't been online in a few days, but wanted to say that I got my cabellas nickel a few days back, and my Granxham nickle yesterday. Hope you got mine! Thanks for the trade. Boots...

I used that concept a while back, but went about it differently. I actually printed the TB number directly on to the design for the wooden nickel. Then I made about 15 copies of it. Seemed like a good idea, but as you can imagine, it got very chaotic. Recently a very prolific cacher has decided to drop and retreive his copy of my nickel in every cache. Ergo, I now get 2 emails for every cache this guy finds. He's filling my inbox!! Grrr.... Anyway, you can check it out at: http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=1225057 Boots...

First off, I sent a package out to Grnxham last night... Second, mine are produced at home. I use a high color inkjet printer and a slightly heavier weight paper. Then I spray the pages (after they have thoroughly dried) with a spray varnish. Then I cut them out with a circle cutter ($20 at Michaels Crafts). Glue the front sides on (I make in batches of 24), then glue the back sides. Paint one side with a clear coat of glossy varnish. Let dry 30 minutes. Flip and repeat on the back side. Let dry over night, and paint each side with another coat of the varnish. Let dry another night, and paint again with yet more varnish. Once all of the varnish is dry, I slip each nickel into a 1.75" plastic zip-lock style baggie. Thats my process.... for what it's worth. Boots...

Well, this certainly isn't a very exhaustive listing, but I have a photo gallery of all the wooden nickels I have collected. I have it posted on my photobucket page at: http://s266.photobucket.com/albums/ii267/B...hing_Sig_Items/ I think that there are many other cachers who have similar pages. I don't think that there is anything official though. One cacher around here (ByrnedFish, near Rochester NY) uses a fine point marker to write in a number on each nickel, then has a website that people can post a note saying which nickels they have collected. I thought that was pretty good.

I would love to get each of these two nickles. I have a handful left of mine. I've edited the back side of mine, temporarily, to add a promotional graphic for the 4-H Camp Cache Bash, a geocaching event that I am organizing. These are a limited run, (till June 21), but I have a few I can send out. Check your mail.

When a friend of mine emailed me that this coin was available, I thought, "Hey, if the shoe fits..." So I just had to get my hands on one of these. It's now a signature coin for me. Thanks! Boots...

OK, I think I can safely guess that Justin is a Jeff Gordon fan (ewww), but I am having a hard time guessing between two potential candidates that meet all of the requirements that i have found for YOUR fave. I am going to have to say that your fave driver is Sam Hornish Jr. But if I am wrong, someone else ought to have it figured out before I get another chance... Oh well. Here's hoping!

time check?

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Think I just figured it out... Man... I can 't believe I wasted my wrong guess so early.

OUCH! Here's the rules - 1. Only one guess at both questions per cacher per day. More than one guess will disqualify you but only for that day, you can try again the next. 2. First one to answer both questions correctly gets the coin and patch. 3. I will add hints later if necessary. I almost jumped the gun too! D'oh! My bad! I guess I got carried away.... Dang!

Awesome, You folks rock! I didn't know if I would get any response to this thread. I love the ideas coming so far. Keep em coming. Remember, I would really like to try to tie in the coin tracking idea as well. Oh, and as for availability, they will be available to the public as well. They are in production as we speak. We are holding an official Launch Party at the 4-H Camp Cache Bash on June 21. After that, the coins will be available for sale (even though we will have them before that). Also, if you are DIRECTLY involved with 4-H, we are hoping to send out a few (2-3 maybe?) to 4-H Clubs in other states who are working with Geospatial Science. We are hoping to plant a few as soon as we get them, because we are holding an big event on campus in early July (sort of a second release party) and we wanted to show non-cachers how these can be tracked, where they've been, how they move, etc... So, if you are currently involved in a 4-H Club that is doing Geospatial Science, you MAY be eligible for a freebie of this before they are even released. If you think that fits you, then I would ask you to contact me privately. I will give you my 4-H Work address, and ask your county 4-H Agent to email me to verify your involvement. Thanks a bunch!!

Ok, I think I got the cointest... Justin is for Jeff Gordon, while your fave is Tony Stewart. 1. Tony Stewart 2. Jeff Gordon Do I win?

I recently designed a coin ( Front Design , Back Design ) for the NYS 4-H Geospatial Science Program. One of the staff from the 4-H Office is asking me for a NAME of this whole "Track a geocoin thing". She's not a cacher, and I keep telling her "we just call it tracking", but she wants a catchy name, something that she can build a logo and/or a marketing campaign on. I am drawing a blank. I keep coming back to Project Coinwatch" or something like that, but that is so generic!!! Anyone have any ideas? I'd like to be sure to incorporate New York State and 4-H in the title. Any ideas are much appreciated!!!!

I have been collecting for a little bit now, and have somewhere around 50 nickels that I have collected from other cachers. I'd like to ask you folks, what do you do with your collection? Right now I have them all sitting in a lock-n-lock. I have photographed each one, and posted them to my Photobucket. But I was thinking about making them more "presentable". What I thought about was using the old slide pages (remember 35mm slides?) and slipping one coin into each pocket. Problem is, each page held 20 slides, so my 50-peice collection would only take up 2.5 pages. If I were to take an album like that to an event, 2 and a half pages of nickels doesn't really seem overly impressive. So... just thought I would get your take on it. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YOUR COLLECTED NICKELS??

Well, I would have said Jeff and Dale, but since someone beat me to that punch, I will flip it... 1. Dale Jr. 2. Jeff Gordon

Thanks for that heads up. I will try to clean that out. All better. Thanks!

Thanks for that heads up. I will try to clean that out.