Valentines Day & The Secret Project
Feb. 15th, 2008 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vandyI have been working on The Secret Project for a while now, and finished it about a week ago. I didn't get it done in time for Christmas, or New years, so Hank got a really spiffy Valentines Day Present.
This is the first bit of mokume gane I have made, and it was actually a joint project between dad and I. He had never done any mokume before either, so I went out and bought a book on it, and decided to start with sterling and nickel silver rather than jump in and mess up with something *really* expensive like gold. We were also constrained to silvery colored metals since that is what H usually likes. The process was pretty neat, and H got me a rolling mill for Christmas, which made things go a lot more quickly. I am definitely going to try some more of this, I just need the time to get to it. And I have some of the billet left to play with, which will be fun. I will post some process pics later.
This is the first bit of mokume gane I have made, and it was actually a joint project between dad and I. He had never done any mokume before either, so I went out and bought a book on it, and decided to start with sterling and nickel silver rather than jump in and mess up with something *really* expensive like gold. We were also constrained to silvery colored metals since that is what H usually likes. The process was pretty neat, and H got me a rolling mill for Christmas, which made things go a lot more quickly. I am definitely going to try some more of this, I just need the time to get to it. And I have some of the billet left to play with, which will be fun. I will post some process pics later.
