Do you have any videos of carving some of these? I have dabbled into handle-making for knives, and really appreciate the amount of time and work that goes into good wood-working.
The only one that was hand carved was the original. I made these as a test of my new
Carver Duplicator from Gemini Wood Products. I have had a lot of inquires as to making people custom limited production runs of their own wooden bitcoins as it is more cost effective then metal when you factor in minimum production and all the die fees and such. I had a home-made carver duplicator so i could replicate an original carving but it was not the best for smaller and finer detail so i bought an upgrade and wanted to test it out before i started doing production for clients from the forum here. These coins were a test production run so i could scope how fine of detail the new machine could replicate before i offered the service to the clients who inquired about it.
Here's a short video on how a carver duplicator works for those that are into woodworking and were curious