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

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


Thanks for looking, let me know what you think.

~Chip

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?

Pontiaker said:

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?

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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

Cool stuff man, keep it up!:twothumbs

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

A single word comes to mind: Exquisite!

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

That is very cool, nice job indeed.

That is truly excellent.

very nice
looks like mokume is getting popular

did you get it from reactive metals?

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

Dear god, that's nice! :thumbsup:

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

Kevin

Finally complete!!!

I finally got my mini-Flupics so I could finish up this project, 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

Re: Finally complete!!!

wvaltakis2 said:

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

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: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. I hope someone else enjoys it as much as I would. :mecry:

Best,
:thumbsup: john

Very nice!! Love the grain...

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

Cheers
Dom