crazy mosaic question

jdm61

jdm61

itinerant metal pounder
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I am thinking of a way of insetting an end pattern mosaic "medallion" into a balde blank. If say you had a round bard of mosaic and drilled holes into the blank, do you think that it would be possible to fit the round piece to the hole, leaving it slightly thicker than the blankso that it stand proud and then heat to welding temperature and press? Would that weld everything up if all went right? Both patterns would be ones that run all the way through the billet, like the end grain mosaic round and say a previously laddered conventionally layered blank.
And yes, I am having some weird forge welding ideas of late. Perhaps i should get checked out. o_O:D
 
If the welding temperature is sufficient, it will work. Too much oversize on the round and it may distort.
 
Yes it'll work fine. Cliff Parker did a mosaic Little Giant Hammer and Sid & I welded it into a couple blades.
 
Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
If the welding temperature is sufficient, it will work. Too much oversize on the round and it may distort.
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The follow up question would be how to make the hole, etc, so that the round would expand JUST enough to weld up and not to go all syggolin.

Don Hanson III said:
Yes it'll work fine. Cliff Parker did a mosaic Little Giant Hammer and Sid & I welded it into a couple blades.
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I figured that one of you two mad scientists had tried that. :D More questions to follow.
 
press fit and peen it cold to tighten, really light taps at temp would be the method I would use.
 
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This is the general idea, but the medallions would-be smaller and would decrease in diameter on a ktichen knife blade like this to follow the line of the spine and edge.
 
I'd love to see pictures of any of this. And jd, those are some HUGE holes in that knife. Still would be sexy no matter what though.
 
nateman_doo said:
I'd love to see pictures of any of this. And jd, those are some HUGE holes in that knife. Still would be sexy no matter what though.
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LOL.I know. The starting point on a 2 inch wide blade would be 1 inch hole or smaller and then getting smaller as you went out the blade. leaving a "frame" of at least 1/2 inch on both sides. I see a lot of the complex mosaic blades forth Scandinavian smiths with the firestorm/explosion twist border making up the cutting edge and often times the spine and most of them seem to be at least 3/8 wide.
 
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