Greeting from a new poster:
I recently decided to make myself a damascus knife and therefore aquired what I thought was one "in the rough". Now I'm not sure. My blade is so hard it can't be filed. It has (had) a coarse grain to it but a few laps on a 4x36 belt sander has only slightly polished surface and a definite coarse grain pattern remains too deep to grind/polish out.
A "google" of the net has strangely provided nothing in the area of finishing damascus steel.
In short, I can see I need some instruction/advice about how to proceed.
Can anyone help?
I recently decided to make myself a damascus knife and therefore aquired what I thought was one "in the rough". Now I'm not sure. My blade is so hard it can't be filed. It has (had) a coarse grain to it but a few laps on a 4x36 belt sander has only slightly polished surface and a definite coarse grain pattern remains too deep to grind/polish out.
A "google" of the net has strangely provided nothing in the area of finishing damascus steel.
In short, I can see I need some instruction/advice about how to proceed.
Can anyone help?
