Good Article on Steel

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Cobalt

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Thought I would post this for you neanderthals to read. It discusses how the original secret Damascus was not so much a folded steel as it was a heavily forged/heat treated steel with about 50 cycles of treating. I guess the point is that it wasnt only the steel but the preparation of the steel that made it so great. It must have taken quite sometime to make one blade in this way.

Kinda sends a messege when you hear that someone can HT a blade so quickly doesn't it. Maybe 80 hours of HT is worth the extra dough.

http://www.mines.edu/Academic/met/pe/faculty/eberhart/classes/down_loads/damascus.pdf
 
Very cool little article, Cobalt!

I had heard of "wootz" damascus, but never new what it really was. Thanks.
 
jandry902 said:
I had heard of "wootz" damascus, but never new what it really was. Thanks.
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Anyone else here read Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle" trilogy? That was where I learned of the term. Excellent read, by the way.
 
Thanks much, Cobalt
I'd seen the article years ago, but didn't have time to read it and then forgot where I read it. The way they create Damascus steel is kinda like the way I learn things -- hammered in by repeated cycles of hot and cold - about 50 times sometimes;).
 
you're all welcome. I enjoyed it myself and figured you all would as well.
 
Dang you Colbalt.... every time I see the title of this thread I think it says Cold Steel... rofl
 
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