So this is an interesting material - man made. Too bad they dont have the right size..but I gotta say this doesnt come close to what pdib does for wood.
Mokume Gane Blanks & Billets in Mokume Gane
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Looks similar to Micarta
I am very excited for my new Dibi.....like sometimes it hits me as I'm vaping on walnut and I get all giggly. Oh Peter, your mods are working sculptures, i am blown away I get to be here watching the magic happen!! This is such a gift! I'm not being maudlin, serious awe and respect from one artist to another 
So this is an interesting material - man made. Too bad they dont have the right size..
There's always resin cast corn cobs (I'm being sarcastic)
There's always resin cast corn cobs (I'm being sarcastic)
Looks like snakeskin, me like
I am very excited for my new Dibi.....like sometimes it hits me as I'm vaping on walnut and I get all giggly. Oh Peter, your mods are working sculptures, i am blown away I get to be here watching the magic happen!! This is such a gift! I'm not being maudlin, serious awe and respect from one artist to another
wow!
thank you, Kogijiki!
There's always resin cast corn cobs (I'm being sarcastic)
Have you seen those in knives? It's pretty stunning...
And btw, that's what Mokume Gane is for - blades (the above is also mokume gane)... it is a modern rendition of the steel for ancient Japanese Samurai swords, where they took many grades of steel and folded and folded and folded til it's as strong and deadly as possible.
The mod covers with mokume gane is a perversion of this ancient swordmakers art... (Damascus blades are the same principle of folding)
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I can't wait to see what pdib did for Todd! I too love his reviews so I can't wait for that review video to come up. I hope he posts pics of his OliveR when it arrives.
if I were still making knives, I might be interested in a little mokunugamegame.
I can't wait to see what pdib did for Todd! I too love his reviews so I can't wait for that review video to come up. I hope he posts pics of his OliveR when it arrives.
I went rustic. I fashioned a body out of a dung daub and wattle, baked it @ 250° (F) for 4 hours, and shipped it off to the dear old Scotsman. Regular shepherd's pipe, I'll tell you what!
I always thought that was called damascus steel?
them's some cool knives there mr bee
them's some cool knives there mr bee
So this is an interesting material - man made. Too bad they dont have the right size..
Mokume Gane Blanks & Billets in Mokume Gane
Correct me if I'm ..... well ..... incorrect
but thought these metal made to look like wood?
if I were still making knives, I might be interested in a little mokunugamegame.
What the heck pdib... are those shaving razors
? Very interesting blades.
I always thought that was called damascus steel?
them's some cool knives there mr bee
just some amateur playmanship. a short-lived tangent.
(not enough stuff to cut out there)
Sir, you did that all wrong. You should have made a haggis and had it resin-impregnated.I went rustic. I fashioned a body out of a dung daub and wattle, baked it @ 250° (F) for 4 hours, and shipped it off to the dear old Scotsman. Regular shepherd's pipe, I'll tell you what!
@glass: well, this one is my "woodworker's" knife. dead flat on one face, tip designed for . . . . . . . "tippiness". I got a lot of good use from this one on the job. Not to mention that I had it sharped up to where it would slice your eyeball just fer lookin' at it.
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Sir, you did that all wrong. You should have made a haggis and had it resin-impregnated.
doh!!!
Must remember to consult Rossum before constituting Scotsman's squonker!
I always thought that was called damascus steel?
them's some cool knives there mr bee
Well, that knife actually may be Damascus steel, they look real similar these days. I think the difference is that Mokume Gane is forged for sharpness and strength, and made with a hammering/heating technique while damascus (middle eastern lost art) was forged for the carbon's ability to flex and not break and I think forged in sheets? I forgot the details.
mokume gane = samurai swords = Japan
damascus steel = scimitars, axes, spearheads, and even armor = middle east
- damascus steel is a lost art, so any wild guess that looks similar = damascus steel today. But whatever they did to it originally actually changed the carbon in the steel on a molecular level that no one can reproduce today.
So every patterned metal today is called either mokume gane or damascus... but none of them have anything approaching the sharpness, strength, flexibility and unbreakability of the real deals made in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
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