Here’s our first experimental billet before heating/compressing, made from nine layers of both sterling silver and fine silver.  We were going for a super subtle pattern of shades of silver, and spoiler alert: it really ended up TOO subtle.  It was a great experiment though, and besides getting to see what sterling and fine silver…

As of right now, these are the pieces we’re going to include in the mokume gane billet.  Some twisted sterling silver wire, some thinly milled sterling silver from a commerative coin, and some thicker pieces of fine silver.  They’re not all the way cleaned yet because we’ve added and changed some pieces since the last…