![]() ![]() This steel has a fairly good contrast between materials. There are makers in Alaska that prefer this steel over all others! Properly heat treated this is a very good steel. Check out our raindrop damascus selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our knives shops. ![]() Take blade to 400 grit finish (must be a sharp belt) Do not buff before etching Hand rubbed finish is also good Etch in a 50/50 diluted solution of ferric chloride (available at Radio Shack) and distilled water Submerse blade in solution for 10 minutes Remove blade and rinse under running water Repeat every 5 minutes until desired results are obtained For a brighter blade, buff and re-etch 1 time Neutralize with tri sodium phosphate Comments: Temper at 350 f 2 times for 1 hour each time Finishing: Preheat furnace to 1925 f Place blade in furnace Allow furnace to cycle back to 1925 f Soak for 10 minutes Quench in oil or Plate quench Quench in Liquid Nitrogen directly after quench for 1 hour. Random, Ladder, Raindrop, Bubblewrap, Twist, Firestorm, Sharkstooth, Spirograph, Vines & Roses, Composite Bar, Fireball, Basketweave, Dot Matrix, Herringbone, and Reptilian Heat Treating: I promise to deliver that love and excitement in a bar made for you. I have found the making of damascus steel to be an incurable disease, the addiction won't go away! I dream at night of new patterns and new steel combinations. Now, after making over 10,000 bars of damascus, I have learned all of the ins and outs of the process. When using the proper stainless steels compromises do not have to be made with corrosion resistance. Carbon steel damascus is much more commonly produced. Making stainless damascus offers many difficulties over producing carbon steel damascus. Stainless damascus of course has the benefit of being stain resistant. I was among the first to produce stainless damascus, and the first to sell it regularly and commercially. I offer it in many sizes for most any product you may want to produce. I have a variety of steel combinations and patterns available for every application, to a high performance custom knife or a wedding band. I believe my damascus to be the cleanest, most precise, and greatest performing available. I pride myself on producing the highest quality damascus in the world. The applications for the beauty and serendipity of damascus seem to be endless. In the past many years I have begun to find other markets for my damascus, including watches and jewelry. You can re-burn the tang of the blade near the handles and the edge of the blade and it will show the layers once more.I have been blessed to become a well known and respected maker of Damascus in the world of cutlery. ![]() The high polishing buffs off the acid burned layer of the handle, and the blade edge is sharpened and the acid burned edge becomes satin. Makes sense? After we make our knives we high polish the handles and put an edge on the blade. Only after you burn the sides of the blade with acid do you see the layers of the two steels. If you high polish the metal it will be shinny satin like all steels. All Damascus is acid etched to show the layers. This is how the layers are exposed to show the layers of the new steel created coined “Damascus”. If the pattern is pressed into the blade, it should be approximately. Then you burn the blade in acid, and it turns the nickel satin colour and the high carbon turns blackish grey. Ladder patterns are accomplished by pressing or grinding grooves across a damascus bar. You heat them up together and then fold the bar over and over to get the desired layers, ours are 396 layers. Damascus is a mixture of 1095HC and 15N20 nickel carbon. HOW OUR DAMASCUS IS MADE: All our Damascus is real and not just an acid etch. ![]()
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