Finest Damascus Steel Suppliers

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Hey Everyone!
I hope this is the right place to post this. I am currently looking for suppliers and manufacturers of Damascus steel in North and South America. I have tried using the search option but have not had too much luck. I would appreciate if you could help me by just posting the names of some to look into. The better the quality the better. Price isn't an issue. Thank You in advance!
 
Almost every knife supply company sells damascus, as do dozens of individuals who make it themselves. Delbert Ealy, who is a member here, as well as Devin, Chad, and Mike (who have already been mentioned) are all good.

Filling out your profile would help us a lot.
 
All the names mentioned make super good stuff but if money is no object then check Jerry Rados' website and take a look at his turkish twist. I'd love to be able to afford a billet of that stuff.
 
I would not recommend Alabama damascus. It warps badly and is difficult to straighten. My last piece had some poor welds too. I plan to sell off what I have left and never use it again.

Everyone else mentioned are great.
 
At one point Kevin Cashen was selling Damascus bar. He's fanatical about quality. If it were me I'd beg him to make me some.
 
Delbert Ealy
http://www.ealyknives.com/index.php/custom-damascus/

Great guy, stunningly beautiful damascus, If I didn't make it myself (no I don't sell Damascus barstock, too much workfor what I would be able to charge until I finish my hydraulic press) I would buy from him or Rados, or Deker http://www.patternwelding.info/ I wouldn't buy Damascus bar from Kevin Cashen, because if I had the money to spend on that I would really want to spend the rest of the money to have him finish it into a sword. Kevin's work is spectacular and well balanced, and I would hate to divert a billet away from becoming a finished sword that is good enough to have his stamp on it

-Page
 
I agree that Alabama damascus has serious quality issues. I don't know if they are trying to make it too fast or what, but bad welds and slag inclusions seem to be the norm. My friend gets a lot of it from them at the Harrisonburg show every April. Almost every billet he has made a knife from in recent years was flawed in some way. I get a few bars for cheap projects, and have had pretty much the same problems.
 
Zoe Crist has some stunning damascus / san mai or go mai type stuff
 
Thank You all for the quick responses! I now have a lot of reading to do. I must say that I haven't come across so many helpful people in any other online forum I have ever been a part of! :)
 
I've also heard good things about Doug Ponzio. I'm planning on getting some of his at the Badger Show in March.
 
My buddy Zoe Crist, and I both sell damascus (him on a much larger scale), with very complex mosaics and end bar patterns that are brought out through much more time consuming processes than the traditional suppliers, which typically only offer patterns that can be developed by press dies on traditional side bar patterns, i.e. variations of ladder type process, or powdered mosaics in a can.


Also, various stainless laminates, san mais, etc.


Typically more expensive though, since we're both primarily interested in progressing the art to a higher end, offering unique pieces, versus competing on price and efficiency.
 
A short information of me in addition:
The company Gaston J. Glock style will begin to sell my damascus steel in north and south America this year. We have already begun with the production of our stainless and not stainless damascus steel for this company. Maybe is Gaston.... also in future a good address!

Many greetings from Germany
Markus Balbach

www.schmiedebalbach.com
englisch: www.webseite.schmiede-balbach.de/en
 
Schmiede M. Balbach said:
A short information of me in addition:
The company Gaston J. Glock style will begin to sell my damascus steel in north and south America this year. We have already begun with the production of our stainless and not stainless damascus steel for this company. Maybe is Gaston.... also in future a good address!

Many greetings from Germany
Markus Balbach
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Welcome Markus. I took a look at your websites, (though I didn't quote them as you don't have the proper membership level to post that...) and you have some good looking stuff. Hopefully you will be around a while and be a reputable supplier for those needing your type of products. You appear to be a really large company (several thousand tons?), not something usually seen in the damascus steel making industry. Kinda takes the intimacy out of it for me, but hey, 'where there's a demand there's a dollar.' (c)

Cheers and welcome to the forum.
-Eric
 
Oh, thousand tons is wrong, that have just corrected.
We can make already a few tons in the year to-time. We enlarge the forge at the time, to expand production, the demands are great.

Markus
 
Schmiede M. Balbach said:
Oh, thousand tons is wrong, that have just corrected.
We can make already a few tons in the year to-time. We enlarge the forge at the time, to expand production, the demands are great.

Markus
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Still, that's a lot. A whole lot. Still killing the intimacy for me. ;) I can produce about two-three pounds at a time. And that's fine with me... :)

-Eric
 
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