Comments on: More and more Mokume http://manolobrides.com/2007/01/12/more-and-more-mokume/ Manolo Loves the Brides! Tue, 22 May 2012 18:25:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: sterlingspider http://manolobrides.com/2007/01/12/more-and-more-mokume/comment-page-1/#comment-59553 sterlingspider Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:38:55 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/?p=438#comment-59553 That's a pretty good example of what can be done but not a great explination. This has some OK explinations but incredible examples http://www.dfoggknives.com/copy_of_index/damascus.htm For the raindrop pattern... Imagine you made a dessert, say fudge, with multiple thin layers of different colored flavors. As your fudge layers are setting you take something like a tapered chopstick and press it straight down into the desert through all the layers all over the pan, then you compress the whole thing somehow so the holes squish closed. If you sliced horizontally through the middle of the right layer you'd probably get something very similar to the raindrop design. That's a really simple example, some of these patterns involve very priecise stacking and twisting and folding, and all sorts of manipulation, but if you imagine taking that same slab of layered fudge and manipulating it different ways and then slicing through it, you may get some idea of how these patterns come about. :) That’s a pretty good example of what can be done but not a great explination. This has some OK explinations but incredible examples

http://www.dfoggknives.com/copy_of_index/damascus.htm

For the raindrop pattern… Imagine you made a dessert, say fudge, with multiple thin layers of different colored flavors. As your fudge layers are setting you take something like a tapered chopstick and press it straight down into the desert through all the layers all over the pan, then you compress the whole thing somehow so the holes squish closed. If you sliced horizontally through the middle of the right layer you’d probably get something very similar to the raindrop design.

That’s a really simple example, some of these patterns involve very priecise stacking and twisting and folding, and all sorts of manipulation, but if you imagine taking that same slab of layered fudge and manipulating it different ways and then slicing through it, you may get some idea of how these patterns come about. :)

]]> By: Never teh Bride http://manolobrides.com/2007/01/12/more-and-more-mokume/comment-page-1/#comment-59507 Never teh Bride Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:12:26 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/?p=438#comment-59507 Thanks for the info, sterlingspider! I have to admit that even after reading sites that explain the technique, I'm still confuzzled about how the patterns come about. Check <a href="http://www.jordanknives.com/patternwelding.htm"> this</a> out! Thanks for the info, sterlingspider! I have to admit that even after reading sites that explain the technique, I’m still confuzzled about how the patterns come about. Check this out!

]]> By: Twistie http://manolobrides.com/2007/01/12/more-and-more-mokume/comment-page-1/#comment-59495 Twistie Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:52:54 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/?p=438#comment-59495 The raindrop really caught my eye, too! I love it. The raindrop really caught my eye, too! I love it.

]]> By: sterlingspider http://manolobrides.com/2007/01/12/more-and-more-mokume/comment-page-1/#comment-59493 sterlingspider Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:41:14 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/?p=438#comment-59493 The patterning is no big secret, though to get a really in depth explination on the patterns generally you have to look at info on decorative "pattern welding" (similar process but using different grades of steel instead of different precious metals). I've also seen people do similar things with fimo clay. The most impressive I've seen was a repeating design of *bees* (!) on a pattern welded blade that won a knife making contest in a magazine my brother (the blacksmith) gets. The patterning is no big secret, though to get a really in depth explination on the patterns generally you have to look at info on decorative “pattern welding” (similar process but using different grades of steel instead of different precious metals).
I’ve also seen people do similar things with fimo clay.

The most impressive I’ve seen was a repeating design of *bees* (!) on a pattern welded blade that won a knife making contest in a magazine my brother (the blacksmith) gets.

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