Make:

• Delft ceramic style cross-stitch mantle clock
• Octopulse instrument
• The automata of Tom Haney
• Pill head / Numb skull
• Image transfer
• Singing with the fishes

Given the value of the USD it's a perfect project.

Um, isn't destroying or modifying currency illegal?

@Ryan: only if you're doing it for fraudulent purposes. That's the same way they get away with those souvenir smoosh-a-penny machines - it's not being done fraudulently.

mhh in Italy is quite illegal do it.

They could use it to burn away 'In God We Trust' so we could have some secular money for a change

I believe Dirkus is correct...
As long as you aren't trying to defraud the government or other people.

Plus, a bill or "note" used to* represent a physical value stored in the treasury. The note is only a document representing a value. Coins on the other hand actually held** their value in the metal they were made from, so it may have been illegal to destroy or mutilate them (not sure). 'old school' fraudsters would shave the edges off of gold and silver coins, removing value from them, and turn the shavings into more money. - this is why many coins have ridged edges - to show evidence of tampering.

*US paper money used to be backed by silver held in the treasury.
**Coins today may be worth more, or worth less than the metal they are made from.

It would really make a statement if you used $20.

I think they look really cool, but I agree with some of the other comments about it being illegal. Burning a USD is illegal so I couldn't see how this is legal.

I think they look really cool, but I agree with some of the other comments about it being illegal. Burning a USD is illegal so I couldn't see how this is legal.

The people claiming that it is legal are wrong. Read this:

Title 18 United States Code, Section 333

Mutilation of national bank obligations

Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

Let the first attorney come forward to
prosecute. I'll bring popcorn.

The law may exist, but you would be hard
pressed to find a lawyer willing to embarrass
himself pushing such a case over a couple
dudes having fun with a laser.

You don't see the feds closing down Disney
World, do you?

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