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Hello folks,
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I did it ! Besides cable damascus, I tried to whack in the cable between something that gives more contrast, and then I found a piece of scrap wood saw. I don't have a band-saw, but it came from one I suppose. Anyway.. I figured that i could pull of cable damascus, but someone noted that it actually are all wires of the same composition, so low contrast over all. So I decided What the heck, let's mix in some pieces of bandsaw.
So I made well over a foot of cable damascus bar, let it cool, ground scale of, cut to pieces, stacked alternating with bandsaw pieces, and did the same as I did to weld cable. To my great suprise, it actually worked, and it turns out to be high contrast too.
I never figured the folding part out, so I played it safe and let them cool down, clean off scale and restack. Even that worked.
The I hammered a knife shape, and annealled 3 times and soft annealed twice. Then I filed the knife shape, finished to 220 grit, and salt hardened ( burned about half the ceramic wool in my forge because my salt pot turned out to be leaking, fixed it, then the salt spit at me and ruined my jeans and a lot of skin cells ). I quenched just the edge twice, like I do any other steel, I suppose this isn't common practice because of stress? Anyway, you can see a hardenings line.
Specs : 5.5 inch blade, 3/16 thick, flat ground, all rounded spine ( great looking, kinda like holographic filework) about 20 layers. Sharp as hell and differentially HT'ed. Oh the sawblade layers looks black, but they actually are silver on a matte gray background. The cable looks like high-layer low contrast damascus, so it is kinda like contrast on two levels.
Lemme know what you folks think of it, and what kind of handle would be appropriate with this blade. I was thinking solid reindeer and SS guard, with mosaic pin.
Greetz and take care all,
Bart.
P.S. You all got me into this ! I got all info on how to and more right here and from a few E-mail friends.
Pic too big - sorry.
http://users.skynet.be/sky42203/ladder.jpg
I did it ! Besides cable damascus, I tried to whack in the cable between something that gives more contrast, and then I found a piece of scrap wood saw. I don't have a band-saw, but it came from one I suppose. Anyway.. I figured that i could pull of cable damascus, but someone noted that it actually are all wires of the same composition, so low contrast over all. So I decided What the heck, let's mix in some pieces of bandsaw.
So I made well over a foot of cable damascus bar, let it cool, ground scale of, cut to pieces, stacked alternating with bandsaw pieces, and did the same as I did to weld cable. To my great suprise, it actually worked, and it turns out to be high contrast too.
I never figured the folding part out, so I played it safe and let them cool down, clean off scale and restack. Even that worked.
The I hammered a knife shape, and annealled 3 times and soft annealed twice. Then I filed the knife shape, finished to 220 grit, and salt hardened ( burned about half the ceramic wool in my forge because my salt pot turned out to be leaking, fixed it, then the salt spit at me and ruined my jeans and a lot of skin cells ). I quenched just the edge twice, like I do any other steel, I suppose this isn't common practice because of stress? Anyway, you can see a hardenings line.
Specs : 5.5 inch blade, 3/16 thick, flat ground, all rounded spine ( great looking, kinda like holographic filework) about 20 layers. Sharp as hell and differentially HT'ed. Oh the sawblade layers looks black, but they actually are silver on a matte gray background. The cable looks like high-layer low contrast damascus, so it is kinda like contrast on two levels.
Lemme know what you folks think of it, and what kind of handle would be appropriate with this blade. I was thinking solid reindeer and SS guard, with mosaic pin.
Greetz and take care all,
Bart.
P.S. You all got me into this ! I got all info on how to and more right here and from a few E-mail friends.
