Learning about Damascus

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Rich357

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Recently I was bitten by the Damascus bug. I've purchased several knives with Damascus blades but I have a lot to learn. Looking at the Devin Thomas site, the page on heat treating has interesting information in the "comments" for each basic type of Damascus. http://www.devinthomas.com/pages/heat.html

So far I've been reluctant to use the Damascus blades for anything more than slicing the foil on a bottle of wine. From the comments on Devin's site, it sounds as if his stainless steel Damascus blades are fine for general use.

So far I have a few "Rain Drop" blades, a couple of Ladder stainless, a Spirograph, Rose, Reptillian, and Sharks Tooth.

I would appreciate hearing about the pros and cons of different types and brands of Damascus steel.

Rich
 
Some damascus steels are known to not having a good edge holding property. I think CRK uses them on their blued damascus blade (??) :confused:

Beside, the only cons about damascus that I'm sure of is the higher price.
 
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