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Skill / Talent Super Unique Damascus Steel Knife Design

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u/Neospartan_117 4d ago

The smith was working on multiple billets, but the video kinda made it look like they were working on a singular one. That in turn made it seem like the smith was producing so many layers they would eventually become too thin to distinguish and basically become a homogenous metal with no pattern.

A fault of the video format, really. A longer format would have had space to make it clear there were several billets being worked on.

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u/Meowakin 4d ago

That makes so much more sense! I was like there is no way they managed to plan out that billet through so many different ways of layering it.

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u/werealldoomed47 4d ago

As the guy that originally bitched that makes sense. As long as the original billet was large enough to do such things.

I have my doubt but yield to a more educated opinion.

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u/toomanyshoeshelp 3d ago

The fuck is wrong with you this is Reddit don’t you dare yield

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u/Adorable-Strings 4d ago

The smith was working on multiple billets,

Well, the autohammer was. The guy moving ingots around probably shouldn't be called a 'smith'