Using Japanese swordmaking techniques to create metal with “wood grain” - Core77 Ask your fiancee if she’d like her wedding ring to be made using a Samurai swordmaking technique, and you’ll probably get a resounding “No;” What? Woah there. Slow down. No? … you might as well ask her if she’d like the ceremony to be performed by ninjas. Wait wait wait. Hey. Stereotype much. Okay, perhaps the writer is thinking of a different demographic that is neither Japanophile, nor geek, nor familiar with the timeless debate of Pirates vs Ninjas. But metalworker James Binnion has researched a rather unusual metalworking technique used by Japanese swordcrafters, and adapted it to make very unique jewelry. The art of Japanese sword-craft is incredible. Click through to read more a brief description of how it works. To extend the method to crafting jewelry doesn’t seem quite right, but it creates such beautiful pieces.

Using Japanese swordmaking techniques to create metal with “wood grain” - Core77

Ask your fiancee if she’d like her wedding ring to be made using a Samurai swordmaking technique, and you’ll probably get a resounding “No;”

What? Woah there. Slow down. No?

… you might as well ask her if she’d like the ceremony to be performed by ninjas.

Wait wait wait. Hey. Stereotype much. Okay, perhaps the writer is thinking of a different demographic that is neither Japanophile, nor geek, nor familiar with the timeless debate of Pirates vs Ninjas.

But metalworker James Binnion has researched a rather unusual metalworking technique used by Japanese swordcrafters, and adapted it to make very unique jewelry.

The art of Japanese sword-craft is incredible. Click through to read more a brief description of how it works. To extend the method to crafting jewelry doesn’t seem quite right, but it creates such beautiful pieces.