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Raising Mokume Gane and Other Patterned Lamination Questions
Archie Zietman -
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 7:09pm
laminated metal | Sheet metal working Hello! Second, Is it possible to laminate steel/iron sheet and copper, or steel/iron and nickel? If so, when annealing should I quench for the copper or air cool for the ferrous metal, I'd use iron or mild steel. Third and finally, would it be possible to do a fagot weld of brass and copper or would the zinc just burn out of the brass?  iron sheet source.
visitor -
Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 2:39pm
Hey Jim, where do you find pure iron sheet? I've only found bulk suppliers in the UK and China. Are they any small volume North American suppliers? thanks, Mark Basford » reply There is a book on doing it
kpotter -
Monday, July 21, 2008 - 1:41am
archie I have a book that talks about how to make mokume and how to raise it I have seen the book at barnes and noble. someone borrowed it and now I dont have it to tell you the exact title. sorry kevin » reply  ive done copper steel with
ambition -
Monday, July 21, 2008 - 8:50am
ive done copper steel with this proces: copper brass: great combo. you will have to work clean with high quality sheet. as for raising check: raised from a single sheet of copper brass silver mokume;) do share youre projects! » reply  mokume books
David Barnhill -
Monday, July 21, 2008 - 4:01pm
There are a few mokume books that I consult on a regular basis- In my experience forming/raising non-ferrous mokume works best cold. » reply |
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Raising Mokume etc.
Yes you can raise mokume like any other sheet metal. How easy it is will depend on your skill at laminating and the alloys you use. As for hot or cold well again it depends on the alloys used and your skill and sometimes the phase of the moon :-) Virtually nothing concerning mokume is as easy or trouble free as working a single alloy sheet but there is nothing intrinsic to mokume to keep you from working it like other sheet metal.
Iron and copper work well and are beautiful. steel and copper laminates are much more difficult to work with as steel is much harder than pure iron. Nickel laminated to anything is a pita but can be done it is just miserable to work with.
Air cool gas furnace or electric kiln for heat source to keep the carbon out of the iron.
Jim Binnion
www.mokume-gane.com