A quick Damascus Preview......

[Karl B. Andersen]

I forged up two 405 layer damascus billets on Wed and this is what came out of one of them.
The chatoyance I got out of the final forging with the power hammer, in conjunction with manipulation from the hand hammer, was just fantastic.
I just got it etched and wanted to share it with you guys.
(Not a bad piece of Ironwood in the background either!)

 

[Kohai999]

What's up with the dark line by the edge on the obverse?

It draws the eye in a displeasing manner compared to the top vignette.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

What's up with the dark line by the edge on the obverse?

It draws the eye in a displeasing manner compared to the top vignette.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson

It's just a layer of 1084 that somehow got rather accentuated in my photo editing when I "sharpened" the image.
It is slightly larger than the remaining layers, but the blade will get hot-blued when I'm done as well.
It'll blend in quite nicely.
It doesn't look nearly like that in the real world.

 

[RogerP]

I really like that chatoyant effect that you have chieved with this blade.

Roger

 

[T.K.C.]

It is beautiful.

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

Oh! I remember now!
I left that layer in there so you could follow the blade shape as I forged it.
Yep.
That's it.
Yep.

 

[xaman]

Awesome Karl, glad to see you moving in this direction. That is going to look killer with some of your blackwood handle material and blued fittings (hint hint )

 

[Keith Montgomery]

I've always liked random patterns. This one turned out really nice.