[Jewelry making - Article 00658] - Re: [Orchid] Making ring of solid mokume gane

[Thomas Janstrom]

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Hi Wayne,

    Funny you should pick up on that particular video, as I did too, but
    for a different reason... 

    I was amazed at how easy this technique is (and "well duh" ish),
    having never done this technique before I when from square rod of
    silver to a finished (polished etc) one half scale ring in about
    2.5hrs. 

    Just for kicks I drilled the start and finish holes manually,
    actually the only power tool used was the buffer at the end. So quite
    a bit of the 2.5hrs was spent drilling and sawing the slot to get the
    butterflying started, the rest is just hammer work and for an old
    blacksmith it was rather easy and I'm still amazed that I never
    thought to apply this technique to jewellery before (I have used a
    variant to make forks and such previously). 

    I will try to find the time to give your technique a go sometime
    soon. 

Thank you for sharing.

Cheers, Thomas.
Janstrom Designs.
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