A bit less Ti and a lot more mokume...

[wvaltakis2]

Copper/nickel/brass Mokume in random pattern
10180 battery sized
(soon to be) mini flupic
Deep etched for texture then darkened for contrast

And a Nichia 083 High CRI from McGizmo...

Just for scale, ignore the tritium tube in the lighter:grin2:

Thanks for looking, let me know what you think.

~Chip

 

[Pontiaker]

I cant wait to get my Timascus so I can turn a light out of it in my new lathe! Yours looks great but I cant stand the smell or the way it tarnishes on my knives after it gets some hand oils on it....Awesome work! I do like this alot better than the Ti/Mokume combo. Did you etch this with Ferric Chloride?

 

[wvaltakis2]

I cant wait to get my Timascus so I can turn a light out of it in my new lathe! Yours looks great but I cant stand the smell or the way it tarnishes on my knives after it gets some hand oils on it....Awesome work! I do like this alot better than the Ti/Mokume combo. Did you etch this with Ferric Chloride?

Thanks Matt, means a lot coming from you. Yep, it was etched with a diluted ferric solution the antiqued a bit. I'd love to get my hands on some Timascus to play with but even Mokume is stretching the materials budget with the lay-off. I'm just hoping I can keep it self sustaining for a bit.

~Chip

 

[Pontiaker]

Cool stuff man, keep it up!:twothumbs

 

[MWClint]

wow. kinda reminds me of a laminate rifle stock...it has such a beautiful grain.
:eek:

 

[Rudi]

A single word comes to mind: Exquisite!

 

[jch79]

Sweet mercy, Chip - that's awesome! :twothumbs I love me some Mokume!
:thumbsup: john

 

[F250XLT]

That is very cool, nice job indeed.

 

[Grox]

That is truly excellent.

 

[gollum]

very nice
looks like mokume is getting popular

did you get it from reactive metals?

 

[greenlight]

Some cool pics. Does your camera have a manual focus mode? That might be a good workaround for the focusing issue.

 

[kevinm]

Dear god, that's nice! :thumbsup:

Now you just need to find some shakudo and silver...:tinfoil:

Kevin

 

[wvaltakis2]

Finally complete!!!

I finally got my mini-Flupics so I could finish up this project:grin2:, it's been driving me nuts just sitting on my dresser. Just to refresh the memory, this is a copper/nickel/brass Mokume & Titanium body light with a Nichia 083 High CRI (Sundrop) LED Mule style behind Norland Optical epoxy, driven by a 10180 (Wee size) rechargeable and a mini-Flupic with Draco programming (high-user set-low). All this polished, etched and patina'd;)

I'll be posting this in the BST later today, but I'd like to give jch79 a chance to see it first;)

~Chip

 

[jch79]

Re: Finally complete!!!

I'll be posting this in the BST later today, but I'd like to give jch79 a chance to see it first;)

:bow: Chip!

I just sentcha a PM - I'm trying to save some green these days :sick2:, so I will only let you sell this on BST if you promise to keep making such dead sexy lights. :D I hope someone else enjoys it as much as I would. :mecry:

Best,
:thumbsup: john

 

[nfetterly]

Very nice!! Love the grain...

 

[dom]

Beautiful.
It must be around the same size as a Draco?

Cheers
Dom