Thread: 9/8 French point dressed in Cobaltium Mokume Gane

Originally Posted by spazola

Make razor, take pictures, send to Charlie Mikael for testing, I am pretty sure those are the correct steps to follow.

I too like the subtle work on the tail, that is a beautiful razor.

Charlie

+ 1 What a great razor Max (you should also listen to Charlie, he has valid and important points)!

Fabulous job on that Razor
The finer detail work make it a stand out
Thanks for sharing

Another beauty right down to the little detail on the tail Max!! Georgious work!

That is just MAXimum !!!!

Everything else has already been said, I have to keep making up new terms for your work brother

OK Max, I have to admit I have been looking again.

I notice that you have used different color variations of this scale material on different razors and you always refer to it as "mokume gane". The mokume gane I am familiar with is a Japanese metalsmithing technique for pattern welding non ferrous metals.

Is this a material you are making and have named Mokume gane because of the random color pattern or is this a material you are buying somewhere that has been named that? You have my curiosity piqued.

Ray

Ray, if you noticed I wrote M3 Mokume Gane in my first post. M3 Mokume Gane is a new composite material made out of contrasting M3 metals (*Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals) which share the visual characteristics, as the wood grain of Mokume-Gane. It's made of 95% real metal that has been atomized down to the molecular level and combined with special chemical binders. M3 stands for "Macro Molecular Metal".
*Copper, Bronze, Brass, Stainless Steel, Iron, Aluminum, Nickel Silver, Zinc, White Bronze. It's being offered by Masecraftsupply and metalpenblanks. Comes in different patterns, color combos and even mono colors. A few have used it to turn handles for their brushes too.

Thanks Max,

I have not seen this stuff before. It sounds like a high tech version of cold casting. WHen I was doing my graduate work in sculpture we did both cast bronzes and cold cast bronzes. We were able to get abotu 90% metal with bronze powders cast in epoxy resins. This sounds like a modern version of that technology.

Since it is mostly metal how is the weight? How does it compare to say a similar size piece of cocobolo or other heavy resin tropical wood?

I hope you don't mind me picking your brain here. If I'm being too much of a hassle let me know.

Ray

Originally Posted by RayCover

Since it is mostly metal how is the weight? How does it compare to say a similar size piece of cocobolo or other heavy resin tropical wood?

It's actually similar in weight to Micarta. I just weighted a piece of Mokume to a similar sized bone linen Micarta I had laying around and it topped out very close. It sands and works like any of the normal scale materials we are used to. No special tools needed. It does come with a small amount of 2 different polishing compounds which you use at the end when you're done sanding. One's a bit coarser, the other one is the final polishing compound. You thought G10, CF or Micarta was nasty. That stuff is even worse imo. Not only when cutting or master profiling on the belt sander but hand sanding. A big mess everywhere. Besides that it's a joy to work with.

WOW!!!! BEAUTIFULLL!!! The design is incredible!!

cheers
Dominic

Thanks for the info Max

Ray