[TheForge] Stainless pattern weld Damascus in round bar stock?

[Ries Niemi]

Most jewelers use sheet, and roll and weld it. 
The stock removal technique, using a lathe, wastes 90% of the expensive material.

these guys sell round bar, but the pattern is oriented towards the face, not the circumference.
http://tigheknives.com/DamasteelCanadaPatterns.html

Steve Midgette developed a technique to make stainless damascus rings with Jim Binnion, who is no longer involved in that particular company- http://www.stratabands.com/SS-mokume.html
but they do not sell you THEIR material- it cost them tens of thousands of dollars, and years of research, to figure out how to make it, and they have to make big batches at once, which is quite expensive.

Basically, if it was as easy as your friend wants it to be, everybody would be doing it- as it is, Steve, and Jim, and a very few others, worldwide, sell stainless damascus rings, and it took them a lot of work and money to be able to do so- they arent going to just give it away for a couple hundred bucks.

Jims website- read it and drool-http://www.mokume-gane.com/

ries


On Jul 20, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Blakkpawss wrote:

> A friend of mine that is a jeweler is looking for stainless steel pattern weld Damascus in round bar form. He is making a ring for a client. Needs round to turn on a large into a ring band. So car he has only found flat bar stock like stock removal knife makers use. Anyone got any ideas where to find some round bar stock?
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