[Jewelry making - Article 00996] - Re: [Orchid] Experience With Puk 2

[James Binnion]

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>     James, one of the reasons for buying a puk was for repairing
>     billets and sheet during rolling rather than use solder which could
>     lead to problems when soldering the Mokume gane into pieces of
>     jewellery. Am I right in my thinking? 

    In 20 odd years I have yet to figure out how to repair a
    delaminating billet. You either got it right or you will fight it
    through out the whole damn process and still end up with a sub
    standard product. My normal solution for a delaminating billet is to
    send it out for refining or if it is base metal it goes into the
    scrap bucket. 

>     Mokume Gane apart, I think the Puk opens a new field for jewellery
>     design being able to use stones,pearls,Titanium etc in other ways
>     than up till now. So far I have only seen a Puk demonstated at a
>     trade fair by a salesman (not a jeweller) my tool dealer as yet has
>     not sold one so I have been unable to get a jewellers opinion
>     (until now). 

    I believe there is lots to be explored with using the PUK I am just
    starting to see some things that I can do with it. 

James Binnion
jbin AT mokume-gane.com
James Binnion Metal Arts
http://www.mokume-gane.com
360-756-6550



 
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