Altusjg Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Here is the finished product of my first attempt at mokume gane using quarters. I stacked $1.75 in quaters for this little pendant. I used copper wire to make a loop to hang the pendant on. I gave it to my daughter and she loves it. Think i'll be trying my hand at this again soon. Thanks for looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
781 Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 nice job arn't quarters fun lately I have been playing with nickles and roof copper as I am too cheap to use quarters I made a disk cutter out of a piece of round and a couple of shaft collars this gives a lighter collored finished product thicker copper would be more like quarters also incase you dont know quarters can be worked on edge after the initial sticking of the billet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fe-Wood Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 best 1.75 you spent lately huh? Looking good!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altusjg Posted June 2, 2011 Author Share Posted June 2, 2011 781- Yeah this little project was a lot of fun. I made a jig to hold the quaters which consist of two pieces of flat bar cut into 3" pieces with holes drilled on either ends and a couple bolts to squeeze em down tight. I have silver brazing wire as well as copper and found them both to work fine on quaters. Guess it would just depend on which alloy you wanted to add. I'll have to give nickles a try. Ill definately be picking up some scrap copper and other non ferrous alloys to practice this technique. I'll have to try working them down from the edges next time to see what kind of patterns can be brought out but was trying the raindrop pattern specically on this one. Thanks again for looking and for the comments. Yes iron wood, for as much as my daughter liked this little trinket, it is in deed the best $1.75 ive spent in a while. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don't tread on me Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 It looks nice, but that is defacing government property. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 *Only* if you then try to pass the result as money! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trying-it Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Now you are teasing me to do some new R&D trying-it stuff. (Might have to make some new stuff here that helps s-t-r-e-t-c-h or reshape a $1 or 2... LOL) Looks great for a first try! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkrankow Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Looks good! Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyGeorge Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 I like it. I'm not familiar with the process. So could you go into a little detail about how you did it? Thanks for sharing the project. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
781 Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 As for defacing money I beieve the statue only makes it illegal to sell the materials as scrap It is OK for scientific and artistic purposes Making $1.75 into $50 or more is OK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 That nice look money you got there, cheap at twice the price. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altusjg Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 Thanks again for the replies guys and for the "defacing government property" warning although i was already aware. One can never be to safe. CurlyGeorge- i'm still learning about the process myself and would hate to give you any misinformation. I have gotten a good deal of info from one of the posts in the metal specific discussion section tittled Mokume Gane (make sure to capitalize the M and G). Read through that post and you will know all that i do on the subject. To me, it seems pretty similar to pattern welding steel with variations in temps and alloys used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tagkver Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 that is just neat I am going to have to do some research and try that one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Trez Cole Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 781- Yeah this little project was a lot of fun. I made a jig to hold the quaters which consist of two pieces of flat bar cut into 3" pieces with holes drilled on either ends and a couple bolts to squeeze em down tight. I have silver brazing wire as well as copper and found them both to work fine on quaters. Guess it would just depend on which alloy you wanted to add. I'll have to give nickles a try. Ill definately be picking up some scrap copper and other non ferrous alloys to practice this technique. I'll have to try working them down from the edges next time to see what kind of patterns can be brought out but was trying the raindrop pattern specically on this one. Thanks again for looking and for the comments. Yes iron wood, for as much as my daughter liked this little trinket, it is in deed the best $1.75 ive spent in a while. I set up a jig to punch a hole in the coin with my whitney punch and I rivet the stack together with a copper rivet much easer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altusjg Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Fancis that is a great idea. I'll have to give it a try. Hows the pattern come out with the copper rivet in the center? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Trez Cole Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Fancis that is a great idea. I'll have to give it a try. Hows the pattern come out with the copper rivet in the center?http://www.iforgeiro...ne/page__st__60 I posted a picture on this link of the last piece that I did you will have scroll down and you will find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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