[TheForge] mokume gane up the pattern

[James Binnion]

Nu Gold aka red brass or C2300 works great for mokume as does yellow brass at 30% zinc been using both for mokume for 35 years now. BTW nickel silver is 17% zinc, it is just yellow brass with half the zinc replaced with nickel. 


On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Dan Scheid wrote:

> Looked it up it's 15% zinc sooo not likely to fuse  shame really
> Dan 
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> Search for "nugold" or "nu-gold"  It is the bronze used for jewelry display
> pieces.  Looks just like 14K - very convincing.  There are other alloys as
> well but I cannot dredge up the names at the moment.
> 
> On 2/22/2013 11:16 AM, Dan Scheid wrote:
>> 
>> I'm stumbling though the learning process I want silver with gold 
>> look. But not silver  and gold. So I started with nickel silver and 
>> brass.... big fail .. just got a small billet of nickel and silicon 
>> bronze  fused up and patterned . the color blend and it is hard to see 
>> the pattern. What can be done to bring out the pattern. (patina, acid, 
>> whatever)  and where can I get itonline?
>> Thanks all Dan Scheid
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