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Damascus Steel

"Damascus blades were forged from small cakes of steel from India called ?wootz?. All steel is made by allowing iron with carbon to harden the resulting metal. "


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Originally posted by: LS20
available on many kitchen knives nowadays
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It would be cool to have the same features damasq wavey thingies in the blade though. I think it looks freaking cool. 😉

Hah, there is my adolescent side of me jumping out when anything like swords, guns, and cars come out. Haha.
 
Imagine if they could make car parts out of this.

We are just beginning to see the beneficial effects of nano level engineering and such. I believe within the next 25 years or so we will see the birth of a whole class of materials that were previously unavailable to us.
 
Originally posted by: Juddog
Imagine if they could make car parts out of this.

We are just beginning to see the beneficial effects of nano level engineering and such. I believe within the next 25 years or so we will see the birth of a whole class of materials that were previously unavailable to us.
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Possbily, but I doubt it will be that highly cost effective.

I mean look at the whole rage about buckey balls. Look where that took us. 😉
 
Originally posted by: LS20
Originally posted by: DaShen
Originally posted by: LS20
available on many kitchen knives nowadays
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It would be cool to have the same features damasq wavey thingies in the blade though. I think it looks freaking cool. 😉

Hah, there is my adolescent side of me jumping out when anything like swords, guns, and cars come out. Haha.
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http://www.chefdepot.net/kershaw.htm
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Nice and it is a Kershaw! I love Kershaws.

I think I saw the Ken Onion blade. It was nice.
 
Damascus is some pretty sweet stuff. My dad and my uncle both have Damascus pocket knives (and they are quite real). The craze is such now that i have begun to see fake damascus...they just polish the outside to give it that appearance.
 
Originally posted by: BigJ
It's a pain in the ass to get in Ivalice.
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I didnt steal enough, the tournesol sucks anyways (too slow in my opinion). masamune and Zodiac Spear ftw.

Oh damn, just read the article. There goes my master's thesis 🙁 My literature search didnt go back that far.
 
Originally posted by: Hyperlite
Damascus is some pretty sweet stuff. My dad and my uncle both have Damascus pocket knives (and they are quite real). The craze is such now that i have begun to see fake damascus...they just polish the outside to give it that appearance.
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how can they be real if the article says the knowlege to make damascus steel has been lost for quite some time now?

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"The ore used to produce wootz came from Indian mines that were depleted in the eighteenth century. As the particular combination of metal impurities became unavailable, the ability to manufacture Damascus swords was lost.

Now, thanks to modern science, we may eventually be able how to replicate these superb weapons and more importantly, the unique steel they were shaped from."


also i noticed the in the link for the chefs knives it says damascus clad...not made from damascus steel. I wonder if that means they just have the look of damascus steel
 
I think the way a lot of modern "Damascus" steel is made is by layering plates of different types of steel (ie: different carbon content) together, then hammering them together in a forge.

Think a steel "sandwich", made of "light" "dark" "light" "dark" etc steel. You heat and hammer it together into one ingot, and you can cut off sections to form into knife blades. It wouldn't have the structure or properties, but it'd have the look.
 
Originally posted by: MrBond
I think the way a lot of modern "Damascus" steel is made is by layering plates of different types of steel (ie: different carbon content) together, then hammering them together in a forge.

Think a steel "sandwich", made of "light" "dark" "light" "dark" etc steel. You heat and hammer it together into one ingot, and you can cut off sections to form into knife blades. It wouldn't have the structure or properties, but it'd have the look.
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It's called forge welding. Heat, folder, hammer. Repeat over and over and over again. That's how the ancient swordsmiths made fine steel.
 
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