Summer research -Preparing for mokume gane

          Preparing Metals for Mokume gane, this time I only use brass, and copper.

     We used mile steel for the mokume steel plate

                                           We drilled hole on the steel plate in order to put bolts and nuts

research for Mokume

 This website is came from Japan, and the person put all the process with image about mokume

http://www.geidai.ac.jp/labs/tankin/curriculum_win/mokumegane/mokumegane.htm

Some detail about what we can used for mokume which is came from society of american silversmiths

http://www.silversmithing.com/1mokume.htm

some mokume sample made by a Taiwanese, for me it looks more like twisting wire

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/ag-element/article?mid=3454&prev=3476&next=3444

 Another website from Japan, very nice and shows a lot of detail

http://www.mokumeganeya.com/restore.html

 Another website from Japan, mainly is making mokume ring~ and it shows different metal makes different pattern

http://www.sora-w.com/ism/mokumegane02.html