Bill Seeley

Yes, Reactive Metals Studio goes every year. We had a booth in the vender area. Phil did a mokume pattern development demo. As an aside... we did about two years of development with the Canadian Mint on a Niobium coin. The price jump two years ago caused them to give it up. Bill

Hi, I just received a notice that Mokumé-gane came up in a thread here. If you really would like to look at some of this metal you might look at my site. I am the master distributer of Shining Wave Metals. Phil Baldwin who makes these laminates was part of the team at SIU that worked out how to do this with contemporary metals in the late 70s. There are 18 examples of Mokumé products developed for the contemporary metal smith. We re : <www.reactivemetals.com> There is also a very interesting site making patterned metals out of very exotic combinations like titanium/niobium: http://xpmcorporation.com/ Very cool. As for me I am the titanium, niobium anodizing guy. Have been teaching and supply exotic metals and the technology for working with them since the early 80s. If you have any questions about these metals please feel free to contact me. bill@reactivemetals.com