[Jewelry making - Article 00662] - Re: [Orchid] Making ring of solid mokume gane

[Helen Hill]

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>     create a patterned sheet of mokume -leave it on the thick
>     side, say 16-18 gauge -cut out of it the shape of a washer, say
>     about the size of a quarter with a hole in it. 

    Surely this would be more wasteful than the method shown in the
    Youtube video? The method in the video uses the whole billet but
    your method (although obviously useful) surely generates wasted
    metal. You've got the hole which has been cut out - although I'm sure
    this could be fashioned into mokume gane earrings - and you've also
    got the outer bits of metal, left over from cutting out the washer. 

    Also, being mokume gane, you've got metal with more than one precious
    metal in it so it's not a simple case of just melting it down to use
    in another piece. Correct me if I'm wrong. 

Helen
UK
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