JoeCera
Elite Cafe Member
What are you using to Acid Etch????
Joe Cera
Joe Cera
Mokume gane
- Thread starter Daniel Houwer
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JayCanale
Member
Daniel,
Being in jewelry for the past 25years I am amazed at what I can still learn. Your tutorial is fantastic! I look forward to seeing the completed piece if you will indulge.
I once wrote out the steps to making a hand forged bangle bracelet and just a few weeks ago I had to make matching bands. No casting here, just straight hand work. Here are the links to the bracelet pics.
As soon as I can get some engraving equipment I will make the same and engrave them.
Hope you enjoy,
Jay
http://www.jaycanale.com/BraceletPics
http://www.jaycanale.com/RingPics
Being in jewelry for the past 25years I am amazed at what I can still learn. Your tutorial is fantastic! I look forward to seeing the completed piece if you will indulge.
I once wrote out the steps to making a hand forged bangle bracelet and just a few weeks ago I had to make matching bands. No casting here, just straight hand work. Here are the links to the bracelet pics.
As soon as I can get some engraving equipment I will make the same and engrave them.
Hope you enjoy,
Jay
http://www.jaycanale.com/BraceletPics
http://www.jaycanale.com/RingPics
Dmitry Martinov
Elite Cafe Member
Thank you Daniel for the tutorial 
Very helpfull and interesting.
Very helpfull and interesting.
Andrew Biggs
Moderator
Hi Daniel
Thanks for doing this tutorial. 10 out of 10
It never ceases to amze me just how clever some people are when it comes to this sort of thing. All the interesting ways people make and do things...............just fantastic thank you.
Cheers
Andrew
Thanks for doing this tutorial. 10 out of 10
It never ceases to amze me just how clever some people are when it comes to this sort of thing. All the interesting ways people make and do things...............just fantastic thank you.
Cheers
Andrew
Daniel Houwer
Elite Cafe Member
Thank you all for your compliments
Thank Dmitry too! Hope it lives up to your expectations Dmitry.
I do think Dan can give a much better tutorial on how to do this since he has done it a lot more.
Joe,
The etchin was just to get some silver away so Salpeter acid did the trick.
I would have loved to reduce the redgold a bit as well but it did not seem to be affected. Using a stronger acid would probably take a lot of silver away wich would not be good.
Also the yellow next to the red gold did not give as much contrast as I would have thougt. White in the midle should give a better contrast.
Jay,
I love your forged bracelet! And ring too.
I did something wrong whilst making the translation and to show the finished rings it would take me a lot of time to regain the links to the foto's wich at the moment I don't have. If you follow the link in my last post of the tut you will get the pictures but only with a comment in Dutch.
Andrew,
I really admire your work and it is an honour for me to get a 10 from you! Especially for a tutorial not envolving engraving at all. Allthough that might explain it as well.
There are some nice tutorial video's going around the internet these days.
On on mokume from a german company and they make the ring out of one piece so no soldering is envolved.
I wil have a look and see if I can post them to reduce my method to a minimum
Thank Dmitry too! Hope it lives up to your expectations Dmitry.
I do think Dan can give a much better tutorial on how to do this since he has done it a lot more.
Joe,
The etchin was just to get some silver away so Salpeter acid did the trick.
I would have loved to reduce the redgold a bit as well but it did not seem to be affected. Using a stronger acid would probably take a lot of silver away wich would not be good.
Also the yellow next to the red gold did not give as much contrast as I would have thougt. White in the midle should give a better contrast.
Jay,
I love your forged bracelet! And ring too.
I did something wrong whilst making the translation and to show the finished rings it would take me a lot of time to regain the links to the foto's wich at the moment I don't have. If you follow the link in my last post of the tut you will get the pictures but only with a comment in Dutch.
Andrew,
I really admire your work and it is an honour for me to get a 10 from you! Especially for a tutorial not envolving engraving at all. Allthough that might explain it as well.
There are some nice tutorial video's going around the internet these days.
On on mokume from a german company and they make the ring out of one piece so no soldering is envolved.
I wil have a look and see if I can post them to reduce my method to a minimum
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Daniel Houwer
Elite Cafe Member
For instance,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu9Ytv7l10A&NR=1
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=TXyUnRewciM
Must say that I only saw these video's long after making the rings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu9Ytv7l10A&NR=1
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=TXyUnRewciM
Must say that I only saw these video's long after making the rings.
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