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May 31, 2019 · All this and more makes Mokume Gane A Comprehensive Study an essential tool for any metalworkers shop. Want to Learn About Mokume? This book provides a shortcut for those looking for reliable information on the mokume process and methods that really work.

May 31, 2019 · Let’s begin this discussion with a statement about what comprises the optimum bond between layers of metal in a mokume billet. The layers of a mokume billet should be completely and permanently bonded into a single unit, …

May 31, 2019 · Traditionally, copper and its alloys were the most important metals used in mokume. For jewelry applications, there is a greater emphasis on silver and gold alloys, but copper alloys are very important to knifemakers and metalsmiths who are working on a larger scale. Pure copper laminates and performs well in mokume.

May 31, 2019 · There are actually two histories to the development of mokume gane. The first has its beginnings in Feudal Japan, obscured by time and the secretive nature by which knowledge of this kind has passed from master to apprentice through the centuries.

May 31, 2019 · Putting the final finish on a piece of mokume gane is one of the most exciting parts of the process. It is only after all your labors to create the show stopper, the prize winner, the grant getter, that you will finally see it in all its true splendor…

Rings using the Mokume Gane technique offer the perfect symbol of marriage—of two different elements permanently bonded together as one. The metals used in each of our Mokume Gane rings are permanently forge welded together, then carved, twisted, refined and formed into a ring.

May 31, 2019 · You will need some basic tools to create mokume by the processes outlined in this book. Many of them are common to each approach. Specialty items specific to one method or another, such as my mini-fusing kiln, will be described in the chapters dealing with those methods.

May 31, 2019 · Armed with their newly acquired knowledge of diffusion-welded mokume gane, the Pijanowskis came back to America to continue their pioneering work in the field.

May 31, 2019 · A Mokume Gane bonding process for every Craftsman. There are many different approaches to the creation of mokume gane, and while most serious craftsmen working in this medium have their own favorite way, they share many similarities. The main differences to these approaches are distinguished by the way in which the layers of metal are bonded ...