Making Damascus Steel 2

Me forge welding a larger billet togeter.
This steel will end up having 448 layers.
After the bars are complete I put in the ladder pattern.

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Howto & Style

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• Forging
• Welding
• Damascus
• Knife
• making
• Blacksmith
• Custom
• knives
• Bladesmith
• forge
• welding

[drewbob901]

could you do this without a power hammer and if so how long woud it take

[Conan568]

@drewbob901

You could do it without a power hammer, but it would take quite some time.

I've done it, but it was so long ago that I can't recall how long it took.

[MrNarty]

how do you make engravings into the sword?

[Conan568]

@MrNarty

Those patterns are caused by the layers in the steel being exposed by an acid bath then polished.

[Conan568]

Anyone can forge, you just need a few simple tools.

[Cowman4351]

I sure am glad to see somebody carrying on with an almost lost tradition

[Conan568]

@Cowman4351

Thanks, this art it's lost no more.

[Conan568]

@lilblitz

Not once have I said I hated Muslim's, I hate Islam and Muslim's are as much it's victim's as anyone else.

Now learn to read English before commenting again.

[sjingelling]

i wish i could learn that, :p i love manual labor xD

[Cowman4351]

@Conan568

My grandfather had some digging bars he brought in to get sharpend thinking they could do a better job.. they did not the were sharpend all right but they really messed up on the temper and must have tried to draw them out to cold.

[ThisGuyGamesOK]

@lilblitz you sir, are sadly mistaken, steel was discovered shortly into the iron age, long before the birth of Muhammad. before you type a hateful comment have some knowledge of what you are talking about