The Myth Of Damascus Steel

There is alot of misinformation out there because of Hollywood. Here is my contribution to erasing some of that.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• blacksmith
• forge
• purgatory
• ironworks
• Trent
• Trenton
• Tye
• damascus
• steel
• pattern
• welded

[ytdcfjhvjvp0j]

Can you make a katana that has a million layers and can slice through bars of steel?

Seriously though, when you said Chevy uses superior steel in their leaf-springs to Ford,were you serious, or was that a joke?

[purgatoryironworks]

@ytdcfjhvjvp0j

Just a joke, most all the flat springs are 5150 steel

[theecocraftsman]

Holy crow--good video-obviously there an awful lot of experts out there--more comments than "The Meaning of Life. Some day we will all understand :)

[purgatoryironworks]

@theecocraftsman

Aint it the truth

[Drychnath]

In the United States, one JD Verhoeven and smith AH Pendray collaborated in an attempt to rediscover the process of forging wootz Damascus blades, successfully duplicating the appearance, and favorably imitating the chemical structure (compared in both cases with shards from a museum of a historical blade). Mines that produced the impure iron in India shut down shortly before the process was lost, likely the cause thereof.

[CemeterySunshine]

18 times for 1,048,576 layers

[kostasviper]

This very good and educational video deserves more views... 

[Bravo21]

There was an old Filipino in Subic Bay in the 70's making knives and Golok's (a Heavy Machete). He made some wonderful blades, and could make about anything you ask from an Automatic, to a Sword or Ax...the steel he used was from old Willy's Jeep Springs.

I love watching your Videos, am not a Blacksmith, and don't know squat about the science of Steel. But I do know a good performing blade when I use one. We used this guys blades a lot for every task imaginable, and they were tops.

[PaulkyArcher]

high migration period swords were pattern welded. Im talking about those francish blades that were exported all over europe even to the middle east.

the problem is these blade were being produced in europe hundreds of years before the crusaders made it to Damascus. so it would not have been the first time they saw these type of blades.

[theecocraftsman]

oh ya Trent,

I can't send you a blonde and a beer --But I can send you a nice "blonde Beer" craft brewed in Quebec!