How about this for cable damascus.

There is definately a place in the world for low layer count damascus...very pretty :cool:
 
That's breathtaking Bill. Get a good finished product with that pattern and you can retire to tahiti where the women don't wear no tops!:D

I can see it now, Bill and Tom Mayo sipping drinks and polishing knife blades in the sand.:eek:
 
Bill

Thanks, I think you mave have answered another question without knowing it. I have never sanded between dips I just shove it in and
leave it in until it is deep enough. This way when you look at the high points they seem pited and fuzzy never the crisp contrast I see in the magazines. I am a bit of a fringe maker I have helped make
a load of damascus billets but been happy to give most of them to other guys to make the blade.

I have built 2 gas forges about a month ago. I got together with another bloke and made 6 billets sold one my mate Lloyd has made 4 knives and I still have a billet on the bench.

I had better get busy and try out your technique.

Thanks again
Reg
Ps I have made some nice pieces but I need a cattle prod to get me going sometimes.
 
Thanks again guys,
Peter, Boy I like the way you think, sitting on the sand watching topless girls and drinking cold ones, You forgot to mention sitting there on the sand watching topless girls with my wife's foot up my a**. :D

Allan,
All I do is bring the blade to a mirror finish, then etch my name on the blade and cover my name with a coating of clear finger nail polish. then put the blade in the etching solution. Just be careful between etches that you don't sand the nail polish off, or you mark will also get etched.

Bill
 
Allan, that's also the way some of the Gunshow hacks make fake damascus. Etch and resist the pattern and etch the He!! out of it for texture.:barf:
 
Bill That pattern reminds me of iceburgs flowing down an Alaska river during the fresh spring thaw. Thanks for the rush :)
 
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