A 22 degree damascus billet

[jim moyer]

Actually it is a 288 layer stock removal manipulated billet; but it is just 22 degrees outside today. Not much coffee drinking in that weather if you know what I mean. (yellow snow)

The photo is 4 inches of the billet which is 14 inches long.

Time to warm the bones.

 

[Robert Mayo]

Jim
Thats a cool pattern thumb print!

Regards Bob

 

[Darrel Ralph]

Very nice...Look like an acordian

 

[killerknives]

very cool pattern!!!!
can you explain a little how you acheived it ?
thanks bb

 

[Raymond Richard]

It looks just like my knives after I do a show. All kidding aside I really like your 22 degree damascus!

 

[jim moyer]

It is a pretty basic pattern. Here are some pics that I took of a previous billet. I try to document every thing I do in my pattern book.

Just make the stock removal ladder first. (Well after the billet is made that is). Leave 3/4 inch thick before grooving. These groves were 3/8th of an inch apart about 1/4 inch deep.

Than take one step farther and hollow grind all the edges and dome it - all done with the belt grinder. You can flat grid the edges and get a differnt results.

I than flux and take to welding heat for the first trip hammer session.

Lower the heat to forge temp and finish off. The billet is continuously checked for curl over which is ground away with the angle grinder so no slag is caught in a roll over. Hammer till a solid surface bar, run through the rolling mill and you got it.

 

[Daniel Koster]

very nice pattern and thanks for the write-up. :thumbup:

nice to have a rolling mill too!

 

[killerknives]

thanks for the explanation,i have never thought to dome it,cool results.
feel free to show us more thanks bb

 

[Don Hanson III]

Very cool billet, does kind of give the look of an acordian cut billet.

 

[jim moyer]

Hey thanks for the kind words and glad you enjoyed the look see.

Here is another thing you can do with this basic pattern.

Just grind another grove lengthwise down the center before the first hammer session and your spouse will think you are a genius with this Damascus stuff.

Just remember this is a stock removal pattern and if you grind it as is you will erase some of the pattern. So do some forging to as close to a finished blade as you can. Then a convex grind should do the trick.

Jim