Valentines Day & The Secret Project

[vandy]

I 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.

Comments

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

Super cool, that turned out great!

[ladymairwen.livejournal.com]

That is AWESOME looking!

[monkeybung.livejournal.com]

oooooh! Sweet! T's been meaning to mess around with mokume (has the books, has the rolling mill) just hasn't gotten around to it. Of course now the price of metal has gone up. Meh.

That ring? is super spiff!

[nobu.livejournal.com]

that looks awesome!

[p1kap1ka.livejournal.com]

I *knew* you wanted to volunteer to make my wedding ring...