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Skill / Talent Super Unique Damascus Steel Knife Design

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u/Glyphpunk 4d ago

Doesn't the process of making damascus steel specifically require a lot of repeated mixed in order to produce the layers?

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u/an-unorthodox-agenda 4d ago

Yes. I don't know what everyone is so upset about, the video just shows the manufacturing process of a Damascus steel blade. And they chose to watch it.

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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.