Our services include:
- Bespoke Design Service
- Commissions
- Repairs
- Restoration
- CAD CAM
- Mokume-Gane
- Engraving
- Restringing
- Valuation and Insurance Replacement
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Mokume-Gane Jewellery
View our Mokume-Gane Jewellery Gallery or read more on the metal combinations, patterns and designs.
The Technique called "Mokume Gane" has been developed in Japan several hundred years ago. The Japanese Silversmiths used mainly silver and copper in different alloys and some gold as well. In a forge they would heat up a block of many different layers of metal and then forge it until the layers bond together and then forge it. Then they would punch or chisel their patterns into the sheet material and turn up a piece of silverware, a sword-plate or a piece of jewellery. The process is quite involved and requires a lot of experience. Until today there are people trained in Japan to practice the technique of Mokume-Gane which can be translated as "wood-metal".
We have experimented to translate the technique into a process that suites the needs of a manufacturing process for today's jewellery.
Carefully we have chosen the right alloys and patterns to bring out the effect to its best advantage on the small surfaces. The stacks of different metals are put into a kiln under pressure and in a specially controlled atmosphere. The lamination-process is carried out as a solid state fusion bonding that takes many hours at a quite critical temperature below the melting range of the alloys used. After that the billets are hand hammered and than rolled out. Than the process of patterning can be started, to develop the design.
We use Combinations of Silver and Palladium, 18ktWhite and yellow Gold, Platinum and Fine Gold or White Gold or Palladium. The fairly unknown metal Palladium is usually used to alloy High quality White Gold. It is a metal that is similar to Platinum and the alloy we use is especially dark grey.
The bond is strong enough to make it possible to squash a ring down in the conventional way. After using the technique for many years now, we are confident that we can offer you a high quality product. We are also looking forward to developing more designs and one of a kind pieces to your specifications...
View our Mokume-Gane Jewellery Gallery or read more on the metal combinations, patterns and designs.
