New damascus pattern

Greg Obach said:
HI D

nice damask... but i'll tells yah something... looks to me like cardiac tissue

check it out

http://www.courseweb.uottawa.ca/medicine-histology/english/cardiovascular/Fig01_Cardiovascular.htm


well.. thats a crappy slide but trust me... under the microscope it does look abit like cardiac tissue.... hah... ain't histology just great
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Leave it to the inimitable Mr. Obach to take steel and turn it into cardiac cells! I suppose I can see it, but I still think I'm going to call this one "Redwood Burl I" for the time being...I'll make attempt in the future to reduce the extreme longitudinal striations so as to not trigger your histological fantasies in the future :)

thanks for the kind words.

-d
 
Sweet steel. From the responses you are gonna have to make up a really big batch!
 
Wow guys, thanks for all the positive response! I knew I was pretty happy with it, but usually when that happens, I'm the only one who likes it. :D

This will be on the list of "stuff to make a pile of" for sure! The only problem is that I have 2 or 3 other "projects" going right now that I want to finish before I make more of this. I'm also going to need to build a bigger forge to scale some of my work up so that I can make bigger steel more efficiently. Right now I max out at about a 15lb billet....

-d
 
Very nice pattern. I vote to call it Eye of Harner, or lace burlmascus. :jerkit:

All joking aside, I think you really have a winner here. The idea of damascus patterns to compliment natural burl patterns may be the start of a new trend in patterned steel.
 
I think the next step in the evolution of damascus is to embed coded messages in Morse code into the steel. Something subversive, perhaps, like "give peace a chance" or "blades for a better tomorrow".
 
tryppyr said:
I think the next step in the evolution of damascus is to embed coded messages in Morse code into the steel. Something subversive, perhaps, like "give peace a chance" or "blades for a better tomorrow".
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Funny you should mention that...I'd not thought about Morse code, but over the years I have put a bit of thought into using an encoding scheme similar to what's used in barcodes to date limited runs of knives :)

-d
 
deker said:
I'll probably have some at Ashokan. You coming this year?



You know it Jake! Aldo's 1084 and Kelly's 15n20, with a little W-1 thrown in for fun.

-d
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already sent in my reservation. as long as I'm not in the hospital again I'll be there

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