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…
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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.