yes that I heard was also referred to as watered steel, but the
concept is awesome and must take forever~! I bet you charge and arm
and a leg for thatif you ever make them... Maybe when I am older
and have a good paying job I might get into knife making, there is a
profit to be made, some old timers these days have money and want a
special knife made for them. Good side hobby for some spare cash,
along with machining if you machine the right stuff!
--- In 7x12minilathe@y..., Jerry Smith <jfsmith@a...> wrote:
Sean,
Damascus steel, is bars of steel are forged together, much
folding
of the metal goes on during the process. You must flux with
something that
contains borax, or you can use the stuff at from store (20 Mule
Team Brand,
100% Borax) Some Fluxes are designed for gas forges or coal forges.
You make a billet out of several layers of steels, when
different
steels are layered, you get a layered effect in the finish product.
I
sometime add a layer of nickle or copper. Damascus is prized
because of the
patterned product that is created.
It's a lot of heat in the forge, hammering, fluxing,
folding and
repeat the process many times. There are added steps to get
different
patterns.
To do it, isn't that difficult, it's just time consuming
and right
equipment does get a little pricey, but lesser equipment will do,
just add
more time because of the equipment.
Hope this gets you excited to do knives and start building your
smithy.
Jerry
At 12:41 AM 11/29/2002 +0000, you wrote:
wow sounds cool, damascus how exactly do you make that, is it just
a
really high carbon steel? Somewher eI heard of watered steel or
something along those lines, not sure if it was real or no.
Supposedly really hard and holds an edge.
Sean
