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In today's Triple-T (tools, tips and talk) #159, let's forge some Mokume Gane from quarters! That's a damascus from nickel and copper.
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I've always used pasture fence wire to secure the quarters, but now that I have a TIG welder I will try that. The wire actually impresses into the quarters, and I get a quasi-ladder pattern from them after I pull them off the billet.
Yes, wire works ok. It’s a bit of a pain compared to using a tig though. Thanks for watching, Bryson!
That really looks awesome! Thanks again Dennis!
Thanks for watching, Stephen!
Very cool! Thanks Denis.
Thanks for watching, Jason!
That looks amazing, definitely something I'll be trying in the future when I finally get started w/ blacksmithing.
Thanks for checking it out!
Good times nicely done 👍
Thanks for looking!
This is the second mokume gane project youve done for us. I can positively say that your skills have definitely refined
The last was so long ago, most wouldn’t have seen it so I thought I’d do it again. It’s a fun project! Thanks for watching, Steven
@@TyrellKnifeworks haha, didn't you make you loving spouse a love heart pendant from the first one, you actually inspired me with that first video to make it myself. I used it to make mi wife and myself out wedding bands.
Such a great work 😉😉
Thank you! Cheers!
That's a $10 Mokume gane, really cool video, looking forward to see how you would use it
I’m not sure yet. I’ll use it some point. Thanks for watching, Masaru!
Absolutely love this Mr. Tyrell. Its so great to see an affordable option for something that so many people want on knives. I know you have mentioned your knife sharpener a couple times that you and the other gentlemen worked on to create. Can you make a video about your knife sharpening arm for th 2x72 grinder? The other guy has a reverse belt option on his grinder buy you use yours in normal operation. I think it would be great for those of us that have purchased the tool and don't have a reverse option on our belt grinder vfd's
I’ve already done a video on it. Both building it and just an overview of how to use it. Here’s the build video but you can just buy them off my website: kzhead.info/sun/mLODp5uDoKqef4k/bejne.htmlsi=qOcfMeuBlu8hbMuI
@@TyrellKnifeworksAWESOME!!! I must have just missed it! THank you!
Ive been wanting to try this out for a while. Just never went on ahead with it. Cool outcome.
Thanks for checking it out, JP!
Most of the copper alloys fuse up alright, I've made it with bronze, nickle silver, copper and brass.Thin layers of silver and gold leaf also work ok too Brass is a bit sketchy though as it tends to be a lower melting point depending on the alloy. Its also a great way of turning about 30 bucks worth of metal into bubbling goop in your forge floor by looking away for about a minute!
I’m quite familiar with puddles of cash on your forge floor. 🤣. Thanks for watching
You should have mentioned that it messes up your ferric chloride for any future steel etching, so keep your mokume ferric separate.
Yeah, I forgot to mention that. Just like cumai, you need a separate ferric tank. Thanks for watching.
Awesome result it looks fantastic, but you know when you can fuse gold and silver with Steel...... Copper to Nickel is easy.........., UK coins are not made in any way that you can do this, there's steel and other rubbish in them to mess with your process...so we have to go with copper and nickel or bronze plate.....I have a feeling your coin based mokume gane might actually be cheaper than buying the raw materials lol Thanks for sharing Denis , as always a pleasure to watch.
Ha, yeah I was thinking the same thing about cost. $10 in quarters gives you a 1/4” / 6mm thick disc that’s about 3” / 78mm across. Thanks for watching.
great video man!! could you make a knife out of that Damascus I don't know if it's a great idea or not
Not it’s to soft metal this is for decoration like a scale or pocket clip
There’s no steel in this, it’s just copper and nickel so by itself would make a terrible knife. It could be used as cladding in a layered construction though. Thanks for watching.
I really love seeing the mokume gane that you make! Are you going to use it in your officer sword?
Not on that build, but I’m sure I’ll find a project for it. Thanks for watching.
@@TyrellKnifeworks I'm excited to see what you make!
It would make a really cool knife hilt
Yes, a cool spacer or guard too. Thanks for watching.
Dennis can you use a mig??? Or does it have to tig? Great video as always.
It needs to be tig or you’ll end up with steel in your end product. Someone else mentioned drilling a hole through the quarters and putting thick copper wire and peening both ends. That sounds like a good idea. Thanks for watching.
@@TyrellKnifeworks darn it!!!! Saving for tig now too 😂😂😂. Every time I clear my purchase list I find more videos to watch lol
@jeffreydauterman haha, well you won’t go wrong with a tig welder. You can get one pretty cheap at Vevor. I did a review a while ago. You’ll need an argon bottle though.
@@TyrellKnifeworks yea I agree. Only problem is I’m runnning out of shop space lol!!!!!
Muito bom !
Obrigado por assistir!
Forbidden pickle chip😆
Ha, no pickles were harmed in the making of this chip. 😉. Thanks for watching, Noah
Lol! My grandmother told me it was illegal when she caught me hammering a penny on the sidewalk when I was a kid. 😂
She just wanted you to stop. 🤣. Thanks for watching
Ha, same with me. But I was trying to hammer a quarter into an arrowhead shape.
This is nice but honestly I would have preferred a method without the TIG-welder. Why? Not all knife makers don't have one (like me). I tried the quarter method but without success, so I immediately watched when you uploaded this video. Still, thanks for sharing
Gotta make it super clean and dont mess with flux. The way ive found to do it is to drill a hole through the stack of quarters and hold it together with thick copper wire peened on the ends!
There are lots of videos with other methods. This reply about the copper wire is one I hadn’t heard before but sounds like a good idea. Thanks for watching.
@@DogsaladSalad thanks, that sounds like a good idea. I need to look in my stack of leftviver quarter and need ti give it a try
Nickles will give you more bang for your buck.
Yes true. I happened to have the quarters, so I used those. Thanks for watching.
0:55 i wonder what kind of person would do something like that?
It was pretty common practice to chip coins to collect the metal because of its value. Merchants used to have to weigh the coins before accepting them.
I believe that it's only illegal to melt coins if it's done for profit but I don't really know the laws around it but you obviously did your research or you wouldn't have posted a video of you doing this otherwise lol
It’s only if you change their value. Thanks for watching.
mokume gane, more like gorgeoukume gane
Thanks for watching!
Unfortunately, this doesn't work with canadian quarters
Nope, no copper in Canadian quarters as I recall. Thanks for watching.
Ah, someone who actually knows what "defacing" means!
Thanks for watching!
18 U.S. Code § 333 - Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt UNFIT TO BE REISSUED, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
@@fredd4785 that refers to bank notes, meaning bills.
@@TyrellKnifeworks fair enough, same goes for coinage. 18 U.S. Code section 331: This statute addresses the mutilation, diminution, or falsification of U.S. coins. You can be charged with on offense for fraudulently defacing coins, mutilating coins, altering coins, diminishing them, impairing them, scaling them, or lightening them. You can also be charged for defacing or damaging foreign coins that are, by law, made or circulated in the U.S. as well as for possessing coins that you know are altered, defaced, or mutilated. The penalty for fraudulently altering coins or knowingly possessing altered coins is up to five years of imprisonment as well as a fine. Not saying they have ever prosecuted anyone but the law is on the books.
@@fredd4785 they only prosecute people for doing this as to change or alter the value. If you’re using them for craft purposes it’s not an issue
So if you made a couple of these could you use them as layers between more traditionally harder steels in a go-mai blade?
Absolutely you could. If I fed this through the rolling mill I could forge it down to around 1/32” and use it that way. Thanks for watching.