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.
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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