Charlotte, NC in the house!!!! I've been a hand engraver for over three decades, and have gotten into jewelry making. Thanks for your video.

This is awesome! That mokume came out looking great!

My daughter gave me one of your knives for Christmas. I have thoroughly enjoyed it, and your craftsmanship is evident! Keep up the good work!

This is the best video I've seen on making mokume gane thank you you did a great job

This is really interesting! I love how you broke everything down so simply!

Sweet! Always love seeing your work.

Nice job Zane dude!! Can’t wait to see more of your work and how to videos.

great job Zane and significant other! Keep up the good work!

Great video! Very well done. A real craftsman.

Good work man. Love what you're doing!

Nice craftsmanship! That would make a beautiful guard.

Proud of you man! Loved the video!

Thanks Zane, sounds really beautiful 👍💫🙋‍♀️

Absolutely gorgeous!!! Need to try this👍🏼

Awesome great video and website guys!

Looking good bud. Nice editing, good lighting. Glad you're on here.

Great first video!!!! Thanks for sharing

I’m gonna start using the heat method to bring out the pattern, I really like the color it gave the copper. Thanks for the video!

Came to win free stuff...stayed for the great ambiance.

WOW.! Man that is a very impressive billet made out of the simplest metal everyone has. looks gorgeous. KUDOS.

Nice. Blow torch to bring out the pattern was cool. Never seen that before.

Really nice video, actually had no idea how mokume was made.

Just watched this again, and am about to head out and try this in my coal forge with the quarters inside a section of 6" steel tube to try to keep the heat under control and not melt the quarters. Your video was extremely helpful!!!!

This was a great help. Just made my first billet last night. Keep up the great content! 🤘🔥

Great job! Very informative

I just got done with a 13-14 layer piece. I alternated quarters and nickels. No welder. After watching this, I wanna try for the raindrop pattern. Good job man

Great video! You're already ahead of the game by having a real anvil to work on. I was never able to find a legit anvil, so I just ended up making my own from scrap steel and some 1.5" steel plate I found. I couldn't tell if yours is a cast iron base or if it's cast steel. If it's cast steel, you might want to take a good sharp drill bit and drill a hole at the ends of the crack that you have going up the side, and then at least weld up where you drilled. The drill holes will in a sense "terminate" the crack and help keep it from spreading further, even without welding them shut after. If you decide to do this, but don't know whether you have a cast iron, or cast steel anvil, the chips created when drilling will tell you a lot. If it makes basically a powder when drilled, It's cast iron for sure. If it makes small brittle chips, still most likely cast iron. (can't remember off the top of my head which does what, but grey cast iron, and ductile cast iron will behave in one of these two ways) If you have a good sharp bit, and you get chips that look like nice curls, and are flexible, just like what you would get from a piece of steel, then it's most likelycast steel, and can be welded just like any other piece of steel would be. Cast iron can still be welded. I don't care what anyone else says to the contrary, because I,ve done it myself, but for a repair on something that has the mass of an anvil, and just by the nature of it's purpose, is going to have to endure sharp impacts repeatedly, brazing would be the best bet. Also, If you do braze it up, you could grind it back down flush so you can see the shiny gold filled crack, and name it the "Liberty Anvil" lol. Keep up the good work man. You're on the right track with content, as well as editing. I've seen videos from creators that have been doing it much longer, that don't come off as well as your first video has. Also one last thing from a mutual hater of any flying stinging insect (honey bees excluded of course), here's a protip. If you're not around a source of ignition IE your forge lol. A can of el cheapo walmart carb cleaner will quite literally drop a psychotic, out for blood wasp or hornet, mid flight, right to the ground, and almost immediately thereafter, dead. Just don't use on bees. They only sting to defend or protect, and they make delicious honey, and polinate needed plants. Wasps on the other hand, were only created to fuck up your day, and there is no convincing me otherwise.

Beautiful, you made it look so easy process buddy.

Congratulations on your new channel and website!

I loved the editing! Video was very professional and I like the intro! :)

I saw it called a rose Damascus when the pattern looks like if you're looking down at roses

NICE!!! You're a stud

Great first vid man!

When you're forging quarters it's pretty easy, because they're already layered with beautiful metals.. it turns out really awesome.. some other videos that I saw.

Yah Zane, very well done! I'm very interested in Makume Gane and cant find much content and really no good instructional information on KZfaq. You might have found your niche. I'm not kidding.

Awesome video bro 👍 especially for your first time 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Nice job!

That’s awesome! :)

Awesome pattern 🗡️

Very nice work, just a side note, there is no moisture in your metal, H2O or moisture is a by-product of combustion as well as CO2, with the water vapor condensing on the relatively cooler metal. Once the metal heats up the moisture no longer condenses. A good indicator of temperature none the less. Nice tutorial, thanks for sharing.

Nice work

Woo 700th like!

Very nice video !

What kind of wire do you use in the first steps to forge weld

Dude, I just got into seriously making knives and couldn't get a handle on Mokume, thank you. I'm using it on a dagger I made today! You got my sub

Really diggin it, how about some silverware? May be challenging but I think you could pull it off! Love keepin up with your work bro

What’s the process if you throw some 90% silver quarters in the mix

where did the two different colors come from if quarters are one metal?

I went and learned something.. neat

Are you drilling the second set of holes on the same side as the first?

Can that be used to make a strong blade or is it just decremental?

👍 super

What kind of wire did you bind the stack of quarters with ?

Absolutely brilliant vid.Congratulations.But I got a few questions.I'd prefer to make a bracelet.So I would need to finish with a bullet six and a half inches long by one inch wide using copper, brass,nickel and silver disks(to stay close to your pattern).Do you think this would work?.Thanking you in anticipation.

Absolutely gorgeous. I've just started getting into Mokume. Is there a chance I could purchase a billet from you?

Can you do the same with layers of gold and silver to make a bangle

That piece turned out great. Love the pattern. Well done. How can I buy some from you?

See you at Blade Show ...

Don’t quench it makes it brittle prone to delamination.

You look like the human version of Anonymous. Great video

What kind of wire do you wrap the quarters with

When you squared it up did it delaminate? And then you just heated it up more pounded it back together? I cannot get passed the delamination it’s devastating every time I’ve gotten like billets I guess but when thrown on the ground or just tapping it it never sounds like one solid piece it drives me insane

I was gonna be so upset if the ending wasn’t there

Funny. I've made some damascus by hand (which btw is a pain in the ass and very time consuming if you dont have a press) so figured this would be simple to do with softer materials but had absolutely no success and ended up wasting $10 worth of quarters. had them nice and clean, wrapped them with wire exactly like in video then proceeded to throw in forget. once I had everything up to temp I started hammering quarters and looked like they were nice and welded. tossed back in forge to get back up to temp and 1st hammer blow to them after 2nd heat cycle the quarters all blew apart. tried it twice and both time quarters just blew apart. idk wtf happened but gonna try again and if same thing happens I'm done trying to make the shit because I'm not gonna keep wasting money away that can be spent on other things. Lol

Can I ask what type of wire did you use to secure the stack?

Amazing work as always, bud. @known.texan

Do one with silver quarters

I am liking your work. We need to get together and swap ideas. I live on the nc coast about 4.5 hrs from you.,

Ah yes, the perfect material to forge the ultimate yandere weapon has been revealed. Sugoi 💯.

It is best to have music and voice at the same volume.

Great vid! Wasn't familiar with this material or method, and it's cool seeing how this stuff happens. @sv650n03

Here from green beetle

Records self breaking the law lol

Good idea. Get rid of the music, or at least turn it down

Why wouldn't you use nickels? It would be WAAAAAY cheaper

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Isn't it illegal to destroy money? I'm from south Africa and its against the law here.

That whistle music is awful! Otherwise good content! Thanx!

officially, destroying quarters is a felony....jus sayin'.

WHY EVERYBODY ALWAYS PUTS MUSIC TOO LOUD COMPARED TO ALL THR TALKING? SO FUCKING ANNOYING !

saw another video of a fella with an electric crucible that does 760 c with a steel compression bracket. cool to see someone just use backyard blacksmith stuff and get a good result... at least apparently. how many delaminated billets did you go through before getting a good one?