Description
801 Prototype
Head Style: 801
Material: Mokume Gane
Weight: 365g
Neck: Plumbers Neck
Finish: Mokume Gane
Mokume-gane is a Japanese metalworking procedure which produces a mixed-metal laminate with distinctive layered patterns. Mokume gane translates closely to “wood grain metal” or “wood eye metal”, describing the way the metal takes on the appearance of natural wood grain. Mokume-gane is a product made by fusing several layers of different
Mokume-gane is a product made by fusing several layers of different colored precious metals together to form a sandwich of alloys called a billet. The billet is then manipulated in such a way that a pattern resembling wood grain emerges over the surface. Some materials used to forge makume gane are: Gold, Palladium, Platinum, Rhodium, Silver, Copper and other metals.