I’m not gonna lie, with the pattern coming out super wonky and taking away from the patterns that the Damascus style folding would have already given the blade, I think it looks like shit you’d see at a cheap fair booth.
Not really. Pattern welding in general is more commonly known as Damascus these days. What was historically called Damascus is now called wootz steel. Fun fact, that historical steel wasn’t made in Damascus, but rather in south India and then transported to Damascus as wootz billets where they used it to make blades.
Wootz Billets sounds like one of that giant pile of new country singers that “totally isn’t like that other crappy country music” but either a) totally fucking is or b) isn’t because they’re just folk singers that dress up like country singers.
There’s Kryle Dinks, Splet Chelders, Gavlin Tuggs…
This is pattern welding. It's not the same as real Damascus steel, where the patterns are carefully heating crucible steel. This is done by folding different grades of steel with different carbon content together. Real Damacus is made by smelting steel with a very particular carbon content and then carefully cooling it so it forms a desirable crystal structure. Real Damascus isn't achieved by folding, it occurs naturally.
Neat, however the term Damascus refers to pattern welded steel in the modern context. Nobody involved in the knife industry uses it to mean anything else for obvious reasons.
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u/Kernal_Sanders 4d ago edited 4d ago
I’m not gonna lie, with the pattern coming out super wonky and taking away from the patterns that the Damascus style folding would have already given the blade, I think it looks like shit you’d see at a cheap fair booth.