CAN YOU MAKE COPPER & NICKEL DAMASCUS?!? MOKUME GANE!!!
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Something similar that I would like to see is a copper aluminium "DAMASCUS" made in the same way. the aluminium however should diffuse into the copper forming aluminium bronze (a bright gold color) which assuming the copper is thick enough should form alternating bands with unalloyed copper. Might need to be done in an oxygen free environment though... maybe I can form the initial stack and get it welded together in my vacuum chamber and send it to you for the rest of the forging?
@Alec Steele @Cody'sLab duuuudes, do this! Awesome UA-cam collaborations are awesome!
To forge-weld two different metals, do they need to be fairly close in melting points? I'm wondering what a "damascus" of, say, brass and silver or brass and nickel or similar, would look like.
Yes please do this.
As nice as the final nickel-copper damascus looks, my thoughts are that its too prone to oxidation and discoloration - how can this be prevented, otherwise you might make a nice sword or whatever - but the copper patterns will just go black and green in no time.
Come on cody, 8 months late
@@Ckcdillpickle better late then never.
I would love to see you compete on Forged In Fire!!
@Ending YouX no he didn't... at one point he said that he refused an offer to go on the show because he wanted to focus on his business at the time... he did appear in a short called Forged in Britain though
I feel that it’s an insult to forgers tho,
@@evelynfarfellwooosh1219 how do?
@@evelynfarfellwooosh1219 how
On blaze channel in Uk he has a series called forged in Steele I think
nobody:
alec steele: let's make some pewdiepie alloy
I commented the same thing, and even tho I feel stupid I'm too lazy to delete it
Making a pewdiepie knife for him would be great
Forget pewdiepie. That would be a waste of good metal lol
Prepperjon says a nobody
Came here to say this.
Anyone else know basically nothing about blacksmithing but still watching these whole videos during quarantine? Lol
“Quarantine”, haven’t heard that word in sometime
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@@WhoTookThomas112 take it back now y'all
this looks like pewds background
10/10 pp
The first attempt had a beautiful organic pattern to it. Probably because of the imperfect twisting action.
I personally like the twisted pattern better. It's really bold and beautiful. I would love to see you try your hand at some more delicate work, say a twisted doghead bracelet or a ring of some sorts. Break from your usual which is knives and swords and make something purely decorative and fancy! No matter what, have fun with it and don't stop being you!
PaintballBomber92 i second that. I think alec should try some jewelry or some decorative pieces.
How about some decorative handle for his axe or mace?? I wish he would make the skyrim ebony mace
I agree, sometimes minimalistic patterns are more than enough to bring out the beauty and the other pattern isnt half bad but the contrast and colour is kind of lost...
mokume gane isn't really suitable for handle material... at most, it could be used for scales on a knife...
The twisted pattern looks like stained wood.
PS: Copper makes your hands stink, and long term nickel exposure induces allergic reaction. Some people are born allergic. NOT a good handle material.
Everybody else: Copper and nickel Damascus
Me, an intellectual: *PEWDIEPIE METAL*
Pewdiepieum
Deadass
That has got to be without question the most stunning color I've seen come out of a forge. I would try machining some of down and see if it could be made into the body of a fine pen the weight alone with that pattern would be something I would buy from your site without hesitation
I was thinking a pen too! I’ve been on a fountain pen kick lately, that sure would make for a beautiful one
I was thinking of a letter opener myself
There was a kickstarter or a company that was selling just that idea iir, saw it a few years back.
YES PLEASE!!!!!!!
A super rad fountain pen would be a great project for this. Help hone your lathe skills and milling accuracy
That should be reeeaaaly nice
That or the ice-cream scoop
Great idea ! i would also love to see him apply his precision and skills on such a tiny and yet beautiful object :)
oh no now i want one
Truck door handles. Imagine your truck with door handles made of that hakuna mattata!
t164z228 just handles? Do the whole bumper in the hibachi mane
t164z228 omg alec could totally do a forged ford series where he forges and machines parts for his little pickup! Thatd be rad. Maybe you can get one of the auto channels to partner up with you on that Alec. Ask Colin Furze if he has a moment to spair from building giant robots!
That would make a wonderful day!
Make the spoon looking door handles like on Bitchin Rides.
What a wonderfule phrase!
It’s nice to see someone skilled playing with this technique. I made my mother a makume gane ring from nickel silver and copper, back in high school. Strong and beautiful. She’s still got it 20 years later.
You can heat the copper to turn it more red. Doing so also makes the Nickel brighter. If you can get the heat right, match the copper to a red wood to make the hardware and handle for a really bright Damascus project. If you can preserve the woodgrain at the intersection of the two, you could make a very interesting transition between the two.
It already looks like red wood. Make a knife and give it a nice polished red wood handle. It'd look AMAZING.
I'd buy it.
Just use this for a handle
I’m thinking a piece for a belt buckle would be sweet with the creamy brown of leather. And save some for a bolster and pommel for a Bowie knife would be pretty jazzy
Bolsters/guard for a damascus knife
Rockey509 dude you are so right. I really hope he makes like a bad ass knife out of it. It's so awesome looking.
I say Mokume Gane ice cream scoop. It would be a beautiful hand forged thing to have.
Keith the woodwright UPVOTE THIS
Streaming a screaming man eating icecreme would be a dream, having a mokume scoop would make it cool as ice.
Keith the woodwright thats an awesome idea man!
Up!
YESSSSS
Coating the metals in flammable acetone is likely the reason they caught fire while welding.
Acetone evaporates really quickly
It might be the remains of the WD40 burning off.
That was a yellow flame. It wasnt the copper or nickle. Its possible if alec was using iron as a welding medium it was that but the most likely cause of a flame like that is a carbon base such as acetone
Copper naturally changes flames to green
Yes the green flames were from the Cu oxidizing. I'm kind of shocked that the "crust" wasn't green.
That power hammer sounds like me after climbing two flights of stairs
pewdiepie design
yep
Yee
there you are
It's a very nice design :D
69 mil custom play button for the pewdster
Very nice. I'm thinking it's too soft for a blade but how about handles? I think it would go well as the handle of that hunting knife you just made.
the handles themselves i would say no but for the guard or the pommel it would be pretty good imo
You could make a blade from it and work harden it by peening the edge outand doing a little touch up on it afterwards
I was thinking handles as well
Like the blade, the guard has to be as strong as possible since it too must stop blows from another blade. The pommel would look good.
As a handle it might do well to balance out a heavier blade. Pommel would be good but I think it wouldn't show off the material enough
“Well I don’t know how we caught it on fire.”
This is not hate, just made me laugh!
Mokumegane = Wooden Steel
Mokume(木目) = wood grain, -gane(金) = steel
デュジア256 Ah, sweet. So my memory wasn't as bad as I thought it was. Glad to see that, even though I haven't had to speak Japanese in so long, a lot of it's still in there somewhere.
More literally, "wood eye metal." Moku = Wood, Me = Eye, Gane = Metal.
Charles Christopher not really, 目can mean eye, or a category, or order(as in kingdom-phylum-class-order-family-genus-species).
You can translate that as wood-patterned metal
This is the first time I've heard the phrase "holy granola that stuffs not cheap "
welcome to alec steele
@Holden Mcgroine it was originally copper was too expensive to make pennies out of so in about 1992 they started to make them out of copper coated zinc. Now zinc is getting more expensive than copper.
Holden Mcgroine are you saying you need zinc to have testosterone?
I have a friend that says stuff like that or “Holy Crackers” lol
He doesn’t use swear words at all not even light weight stuff like damn or shite etc
I read this just as Alec said it.
Use the first one as handle scales for a small knife and the second one for a larger knifes handle.
I agree - using them for handle scales would be awesome
i was thinking the same handle scales for a Damascus bowie
THIS ! I would def like to see a handle made . Also reminds me of tiger stripes .. maybe tiger handle 🤔 or am i just pushing it now lol
If not the full scales, I Inlay a large version of his touchmark into a wood scale such as ebony or cocobolo
if he used it as inlays then the rest could go on as a guard and pommel
Make a Pewdiepie Knife out of it and give it to Pewds
you should make yourself a belt buckle...AHAHAHHAH Maybe one for Jamie as well
a belt buckle for jamie yaas
Its it practical? Probably not. Is it awesome? Oh yeah
It was developed for sword guards originally and is now primarily used to make jewelry.
depends what you are making from it. A blade no a hilt or pommel hell ya practical and cool
Copper alloys can be hardened to be comparable to some forms of steel. But, used as a sword against a steel weapon? I would take steel any day
I wonder too about the mechanical properties of this material.
Sad. I wanted to make a katana from this to slaughter my opponents
Titanium Damascus is even cooler because it’s blue
Dimitri Isov but working with titanium is dangerous it doesn't melt it skips the liquid state and goes straight to the plasma state
He can use stainless steel and torch it to turn it blue.
my understanding was that titanium is remarkably unreactive in practical use cases, but I might be mistaken.
Titanium oxidises quite readily when heated over 100C (vast majority of white dyes are titanium oxide based) so it's not entirely stable. The tricky part of working with it is that it needs to be incredibly hot to do anything with (likely beyond the capabilities of the shop forge) and it's naturally super hard so cutting/drilling it requires specialist (read: expensive) tooling. The common misconception is that titanium is a rare metal when in truth it's quite common, the rarity is more on account of the lack of facilities that can process it in any meaningful way
Only one person in the world knows how to make timascus and it’s blue and pink
a kitchen knife made out of this would look amazing.
I was looking for this comment! Make it happen
A survival knife made out of it would look amazing.
Very soft due to nickel and copper being soft metals.
Yeah it would be a crappy knife in terms of strength
@@CrazyNerdInventor there is a possibility of attaching a hardened edge to a spine of a softer material. I've come across it in a few blacksmithing books. It's basically just the old method of forging some implements with limited high quality steel. If he forms his billet around 3 sides of a harder core steel if he has the right flux and heat he could get a very usable blade with that pattern on most of it. Think like the soft cap around old single edge razors for seamstresses and scraping tape off glass. It's doable but it would be tricky
The twist Mokume would make a really nice guard for a bowie knife.
the green flame is the copper oxidising rapidly like the color green in fireworks
coperdioxide, yeah
@@activistvoorrechtenvankaas2810 Wrong it can't be Copperdioxide for the fact that those two elements wouldn't bond together do to the electrons unless there was another element to balance it like aluminum, or chromium. What you are thinking of is actually Copperperoxide which produces that green color.
*captain knowitall* everyone that came probably knew that.
The Green colour in firework is CopperOXIDE wich is burning
No no no....its caused by the Green Lantern corps...dont you people know anything....sheesh!
I was watching this outside And all my neighbor heard was that looks crusty let's slam it
I dunno what's more beautiful: this golden red color or how it'll look when the copper oxides.
oxidizes*
Your next project should be a set of Damascus chisels as a gift for your dad for Father’s Day he would love them since he is a carpenter
Make two handles for a matching dagger set
Michael Cardona I was thinking a guard and pommel but have an ebony hilt
Like a Seaxe and a throwing dagger? That would be cool
Michael Cardona, I think your idea is grate, a set of really sleek assassin type daggers would be an awesome task to achieve in itself, especially with that twisted billet shaved down & profiled for some super fine scales.
Even better? A silverware set. Knife, fork, spoon. With super fancy handles.
Mac Jones..
Great minds think alike
Make a set of scales for a knife or even an old school straight razor!
On second thought do a Damascus straight razor with a set of scales from this material.
This. One hundred procent this
Great idea!
Vapor Trails ..
Especially! A straight razor
Dude, those hammer blows to the bass line was probably the coolest thing I've seen for a while. Awesome editing!!
That would look AMAZING on a nickel plated 1911 for its pistol grips.
That would be nice, combined with a matching combat / survival knife....unfortunately since the UK has banned all cartridge based handguns I highly doubt this will happen from Alec.
Phillip Kirkpatrick no they can have had guns but don’t they need to have 12” barrels?
Phillip Kirkpatrick and I don’t think there is a law against making the grips for one?
He would need either some grips to duplicate or a chopped in half receiver to do it
Semi-automatics are limited to 22 rimfire as well....so good luck on a 1911 .22lr and a 12 inch barrel, lol
"WOW, THEY'RE STAYING TOGETHER, THAT'S AMAZING!!"
lol your enthusiasm makes me feel like maybe life is worth it
... it is
Jesus this took a turn, start by watching the sun rise and set every day.
it kinda looks like tiger stripes - so make something tiger themed from it - i mean as tiger themed as you could make something, i guess!
Like a decorative claw knife
Something India themed then?
What about a tiger guard (or tsuba) for a sword or knife? Not sure how solid it would be, but you can't deny it would look good.
Hey Alec, I was just discussing damascus steel with my father and how much I respect your skills. At any rate, the idea cane up of what would be the result of taking multiple pieces of already layered steel, and fusing them together so it was essentially damascus to the nth power. Could you do a video on this sometime?
If you take a torch to it and heat it up just a bit, it'll turn the copper a red color and leave the nickel bright. That'll get your pattern to show quite a bit better. In my opinion, an Icecream scooper would be cool; might be a little difficult to maintain the pattern. I don't know, have fun with it!
Seconding this, a fiery/shiny icecream scoop sounds awesome haha
Good thinking!
BurlyWoodWorks on the topic of kitchen ware, he could make some moscow mule mugs out of the makume gane
That looks stunning!!... But it's now 2:00am as I'm typing this and my mind is too sleepy to think of anything really worthy.
That looks lovely!
I guess too soft to make any kind of useful blade, but could be good for a guard or handle for another project.
A thought: This is Japanese in origin? How about another Katana, but this time a traditionally made blade and use some of the mokume gane for the habaki/seppa/tsuba/menuki... maybe scabbard (saya)?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katana
ua-cam.com/video/CNuEDtnVdeM/v-deo.html
...maybe not actually start with smelting your own iron/steel, but go the rest of the traditional route as another learning exercise?
This stuff could maybe look cool as the guard and pommel of your next sword?
11:00 :
"WHAHOOOOHOOOOOOOO"
literally 2 seconds later :
"Thats kinda cool, kinda cool"
Use that to make the guard for your next damascus sword project!!! Use it for a guard, bolster and pommel. It'll look insane with a damascus sword!! Practical? Probably not. Ridiculously cool looking? Absolutely.
You have the right idea!
would look cool as 20 sided dice, 12 sided dice, 10 sided dice, 8 sided dice, 6 sided dice, 4 sided dice.... and then in my dice collection :D
You'd have to do loads of calculations for the dice to be weighted correctly, with the difference in density between the two, which adds a whole new level of weight distribution... then again, I'd never actually roll Alec Steele made dice! (although I'd be very very tempted)
Copper and nickel are very close in density, so as long as you could assure the pattern was fairly symmetrical, it shouldn't cause too many balance issues.
Making dice must be a nightmare... How do you even cut a d20?
Its alot easier than cutting a gemstone!
bob baxter they would be my favorite DND dice
you can make INSANE, Japanese Tantō sword.
Pewdiepie damascus
Custom chopsticks!!!!!!!
i wonder how much Chinese Alec could eat??? hes always dicing fruit :p throw some lo mein at him sam!!!!
The metals are swirled and patterned but not truly fused. Different metals different electronegative potentials so galvanic corrosion will eventually etch the softer metal out.
Mokume can be sublimely beautiful on decorative pieces ... but it's soft-wearing, not very durable or lasting.
Not suitable for chopsticks, cutlery, even some jewellery - because frequent/constant exposure to liquids will accelerates the (bad tasting!) corrosion.
Send a piece over to Patrick Adair Designs, It would make a beautiful ring...
Myguitars100 I was thanking the same thing
He already has made a Mokume Gane ring.
That's curious, I was thinking that as well. It'd make one hell of a nice ring.
At least a few slices. There's still even more potential for the rest of it. :D
cooper has been used for jewelry since the bronze age
+See, the thing is Are you sure it turns your skin green? This is the first time I hear (*read) of this. Copper is very resistant to oxidization unlike other metals, and since people always used copper jewelry then something doesn't add up.
Looks like metallic wood.
@@the-thane I was about to say that same thing lol
Imagine making your pommel and other hardware for a sword with this, it would be insane.
That'll make a beautiful bolster.
Beat me to it. Damascus fixed blade, bolster from the twist stock, stabilized maple scales.
Shaun Walker or Osage scales
Osage with a good grain pattern could work. Something with a little heart wood in it...
i thought im not the only one who think the same, but damn, i thought you said lobster
Make an "inverted knife" letter opener with it: Blade is wood, handle is mokume gane.
Dave Roth that’s hella good
Wow that looks beautiful!
Love your channel!
Try making a knive handle, or try to carve someting like a tiny antelope skull out of it!
Freizeitflugsphäre yeah I think that a knife handle would be awesome
"Wow it feels really homogenous!"
I love this exclamation.
Suggested use:
The core of a bronze sword. Mokume Gane in the center, bronze on the edge and crossguard, perhaps a maple or rosewood grip...
That'd be one sexy ass blade
I would love seeing it on a damascus steel blade as the other pieces, the pommel and hand guard etc... it would be sick...
Maybe something akin to a japanese San-Mai, except instead of different grades of steel, a piece a bronze stacked between two pieces of Mokume Gane
first video seen, fucking awesome bud. love from canada. subbed.
Thrilled to have you here!
Same here. Your production value is killer, keep it up dude.
*I think it's a killer piece and being 2 years later...lol you probably don't have anymore but I would have loved to do a Collab project with you and make a killer ring from it.* You'll have to let me know if you have anymore or would like to do something here as a joint project cross referencing our videos and subscribers (although you've got by butt kicked on subs now that I'm looking...lol). It's all in the marketing! "SUBSCRIBED"
*Sprays with acetone*, starts welding. "I don't know why it's on fire!"
you should make a set of dice D4 D6 D20 and so on
TheCrazycuber I second this!
D4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20.... That would be amazing!
YES! Dice like that would be amazing!!
I agree Tenfold
It would be easier if he had a mill I don't know if he does
Make a handle with the Cooper and nickel and make a 11 inch buck out of Damascus....
Love your show man! keep it up!
He didn't make anything with pewdiepie metal. I'm mad
Love to have some of that as a set of 1911 grips.
That would be sweet! But I wonder if the gun cleaning solvents/oils would react poorly with the copper?
You would need to be careful with solvents made to remove the copper fowling when cleaning. So long as you took them off or were careful you should be fine. Oils I am not sure of, maybe they would stain the copper a bit? My money is on it not doing much.
Ison Tenney you would remove them during cleaning
I have a desert eagle and it would look nice with this
oof
10:59 Alec goes full Tom & Jerry on us
WAAAAHOOHOOHOO that is quality comedy
Why not call it " *Tiger Damascus* " ?
Melone no it’s Pew-mascus
Because it actually already has a name. This combination (along with Copper, Nickel and Bronze) is extremely common and is called Mokume Gane in Japanese because of the wood-like grain pattern it gets.
Seraph X2 chill out
@@jmac7287 pewdmascus*
Seraph X2 your right mate. And no matter how many times you call pattern welded metals damascus, it ain’t that either.
Am I the only one that thinks this power hammer sounds like a dog panting
Honestly i found this channel through recommended and ive only watched about 5 to 10 videos but honestly it was the best recommended feed click of my life. Such an intriguing channel and so much fun to watch. 😊
Schmit GaMeS too honest. Honestly.
Just found it today in my recommended. Way better production value than any other forging channel out there and he seems to be a pretty damn proficient smith.
hmmmm what could you make out of the material.........obviously it would be best as a decorative piece..................what about a nice saber? youve not made a saber yet
B & A Talks decorative pieces for a saber out of this would be gorgeous. Or a Scottish backsword
B & A Talks my slightly week mind just thought of a small statue of Saber from Fate/ stay night or apocalypse
Most 10 pence coins are copper-nickel
The geometry of more modern swords rely on having good quality steel in order to not break. Something bronze age would be perfect.
Remember, nickel is expensive. Better do something small, a dagger or arrowheads
Use them for know handles
I bet that would complement a Damascus knife beautifully
Yeah but copper won't make a good knife
that would look awesome on a sword also if it was as strong as steel or Iron.
@@swaysauce604 he means for the handle. Not the blade
omg a pewdiepie knife
spraying acetone everywhere doesn't feel right next to a running blazing hot forge
Go back to the roots! BELT BUCKLE
I prefer the 1st twisting pattern. I know its easier but I prefer more wood-like patterns
i fking envy this man...i wish i had your workspace and tools to play and do things as you do...jeezzz...that's sooo freaking awesome...i bet the end results pay off the heat
You'll be even more envious to know that he makes an absolute minimum of 21k per year off this channel. Probably closer to 150k.
to me not all it's reported to money, the fact that hes doing this kind of work it's awesome, i wish i had a workshop @ that i could try to learn and do this thing, for sure i would love such a job beside programming and electrical engineering.
of course money are important, i'm not an hypocrite and if he make so much it's even better, he can learn and buy new toys, material to do so, so it's more awesome:)))
Yeah, I kinda need a few months in that shop, just to make stock to use for other cool projects I want to do.
Honestly I envy any workspace at all. Living in an apartment kind of sucks with how limited you are. Even if I had a garage I could do so much more. As it is I have to keep my projects relatively small. If you can't do it with hand tools you can't do it.
@@koloth5139 agree with you, i've lived in country side all my life and now i've moved for uni in an apartment, even tho it's 3 room one, it suck, i could never get used to it, after 3 years i still miss my tools and lil work i could find at home in free time, here...all i can do it's to lay down my ass or by neighboors will jump on me...
If you think Nickel is expensive, you have not seen Cobalt metal price. Cobalt is harder than Nickel, it sits in the middle between Iron and Nickel and whatever you can do with Nickel you can also with Cobalt.
Alec: I think a clean forge would be better...
Alec: So I put a piece of steel there
Steel: *makes the problem worse*
Knife. Damascus blade, mokume handle. Or guard.
Tiger Damascus?
It looks like a wooden damascus
pewdiepie model Damascus
Csgo knife pattern comfermed
Exactly my thought. Tiger stripes.
demascus tiger eye steel tats a fitting name for tat bar of metal 😻 wouldint mind getting a blade or a ring outa tat pwitty metal 💖
Make an ornate blade possibly using tigers eye in the handle
He should inset it into a sword blade.
Aaron Ward Exactly. Make his touch mark out of it in a sword.
Just a thought...but you could make a limited amount of "Touch Mark" Pendents to sell... :)
I hope y'all have a great day & please be safe :)
Ya this would be very nice.
I would seriously consider buying a pendant made of Mokume Gane.
Me too... and some t's
Yes that would be nice
I think that would make some gorgeous inlay material for a handle..
I wouldn't mind some of those offcuts to go onto my hatchet. ;)
I want literally ANYTHING made with this.
Make a 12 gauge slug out of a small piece of it and send it to Tofaldermouse to shoot and test with high speed camera.
Agreed!!!
I'd like to see what a bismuth slug would do, being softer but also heavier than lead if i remember correctly (one space to the right?)
Citizen Snips he made one
MrArcher0 yeah if he had some extra peices after the project that would be a good idea but I wouldn't waste the whole thing on it lol
Bismuth isn't nearly as dense as lead. But if you want something "heavy" opt for uranium or tungsten.
Make round stock out of it and turn it on the lathe into a ring...... or send it to me and Ill make you a ring out of it!!!!
2LateIWon/Organized Chaos a lathe is an expensive way to make a ring from such material. gold smiths punch a hole and widen it while twisting the stock. that way you don't waste the expensive material.
rings would be very cool
Would look good but continued exposure to nickel can cause allergic reactions.
Keeping the shop clean? Doesn't include forge? Lol
awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! make a thouing axe
It didn't take you too long to figure that out.
The first thing I would make from one of the smaller pieces is a western belt buckle, I would kill for something like that.
chris osh especially if he started selling them in the shop :)
Yeah!
I would like to place my order now! 1 Mokume Gane buckle please.
It looks like wood so maybe use the first piece to try and make a handle for a knife, damascus maybe. Just to see how it works and get the feel of it before you mess with the larger bar
Try something really delicate: Use the Twist Mokume to make Frames for your glasses.
Alec: copper and nickel damascus
Literally everyone: PEWDIEPIE DAMASCUS
It really looks like sliced American cheese under the power hammer.
just a fun fiy,
theres no such thing as "american cheese"
technically its "pasturized cheese "product" "
basically they take the nasty liquids left over from making chedar, and cook it down and add crap to it
to make "not cheese"
that aside, the better quality stuff does taste good (kraft, NOT foodclub or greatvalue)
and... yeah it does have a resemblence
PewDiePie wants to: *know your location*
Also I love your energy.
For the second billet, belt buckle.
I like the idea
Beat me to it lol explosion pattern belt buckle would be awesome
Belt Buckle!
Great idea 💡 Goes with his Cowboy boots 👢. Maybe the 1st billet can be made into a pocket/folding knife.
@Robert Landrum Too soft, but it would make a great handle
9:35 It looks like tiger eye maple wood or tiger eye stone! Amazing! Please stop doubting yourself so soon. Maybe your gut instinct is a bit overactive saying something isn't right just before it becomes gorgeous... I gotta subscribe now... I do papercrafts, not anything with metal... But you're so talented. (Saw you in Bobby Duke's video & had to see what you're about. Glad I did!)
I think a belt buckle would be cool!
Jeremy Yes for me. Lol!
How about a blacksmithing ring? like a king of old.
They do make rings like that usually with different colors of gold. I made one out of silver, copper, bronze. But copper and bronze can cause your finger to turn green, from the oxidation process of copper. Melted it unfortunately trying solder a silver band onto the inside of it.
It would be dope to use that Japanese Damascus to make a Japanese tsuka (hilt and it's parts) for the katana type sword you have already made. Maybe use the mokume gane to make all the details on the handle for that Damascus katana. The parts I'm referring to are the kashira, menuki, fuchi, and the tsuba. Maybe instead make a Saya (scabbard) for the katana? This kind of scabbard has a few details that could be made from this nickel-copper mokume gane and it would make a nice touch to add to a previously made item and do something new at the same time!
andrew ranger Agreed. I suggested a feather Damascus tanto (or wakizashi) with such a Tsuba.
I made a suggestion in the comments while he was doing the katana to use mokume gane for the fittings, would be sweet to see it finally happen, I realy enjoyed that build
Everyone who clicked on the video: is it actually possible?
Me who saw the thumbnail: this is big brain time
Great editing to the bass drops. Loved that.
Speaking of bass drops, do you have the name of the track?
If you would like to try some lathe-work, you could make a ring out of it. If you check out Patrick Adair he has worked with Mokume Gane before to make rings.