Discover what makes Damascus steel so unique and why it's still a top choice for outdoor knives. Learn about its history, ...

The patterns on this Iranian Damascus steel sword blade come from high-carbon inclusions in the Indian crucible steel. “ Watered pattern on sword blade1 ” by Rahil Alipour Ata Abadi ...

Hence, they argued strongly that the surface patterns formed on genuine Damascus steel blades should result from a type of microsegregation-induced carbide banding that requires thermal cycling[5-10].

Today, most Damascus steel is created by combining two different steels into one-of-a-kind designs using the pattern welding process, a somewhat less expensive way to produce Damascus-style steel ...

Knives comes in all shapes and sizes but the sheer variety won’t stop many EDC enthusiasts from the same end: a collection of blades that all look, well … the same.That’s where Damascus comes in. To ...

Damascus steel—and modern versions of the steelmaking technique—is generally synonymous with artisan forgework. In traditional Japanese sword-making, for example, the steel is repeatedly ...

Pattern-welded Damascus steels were made by forge welding two steel grades into a sandwich. ... New steel alloys for better machinability, corrosion and abrasion resistance, ...

In time, Pendray hit upon a method involving dozens of heating cycles, which would occasionally yield the right external pattern and the microscopic hallmarks of genuine Damascus. But many batches ...