Off Topic Wanna have a laugh? Arm chair blacksmiths decrying "fake" damascus

[Greenberg Woods]

Hey guys. This was on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/c...dmade_damascus_knife/?st=j9neldfb&sh=be052ee0

The comments are pure gold. Here are a few i saw

"That looks so cheap.... also, no one really knows how to make Damascus steel any more. Most of this moddled steel is simple folded. But even folded metal forging doesn’t result in this mirroring like on this blade. This looks like some cheap crap that’s been acid etched on to the blade."

"I've watched enough Forged in Fire to know something here doesn't look right here...that pattern looks too bold and precise."

Lots of fun if you want to see

 

[Randy3000]

Reddit tier trash lol

That's an amazing pattern

 

[Busto]

There is some impressive pattern welded (Damascus) that pushes the envelope.

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/my-damascus-steel.1401097/

 

[coldsteelburns]

nvm


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[milkbaby]

I tried to read that but got really scared that the stupidity there was contagious...

 

[Darrin Sanders]

Never mind. I should have read the entire OP before I posted.

 

[Willie71]

There is some impressive pattern welded (Damascus) that pushes the envelope.

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/my-damascus-steel.1401097/

Yup. This guy makes me want to pack up and go home. Wait, ...... I am home.

 

[Jonathans]

Thanks so much for sharing this. If I had not read it I would never have learned about “interstitial”
alloys.

 

[JTknives]

Lol

"I bought a sweet one from Wal-Mart that sharpens itself every time you use it. FOR $9.99!! Beat that, suckers..."

 

[kuraki]

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

 

[Geoff Flato]

Once you get outside the knife circles thats very common on Facebook too.

 

[Ian Fifelski]

There is some impressive pattern welded (Damascus) that pushes the envelope.

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/my-damascus-steel.1401097/

I checked out that link and...... WOW! I am finding it hard to breath after looking at those! They are absolutely incredible.

 

[Kevin McGovern]

I wish I had not clicked on either one of the links above. For very different reasons.

 

[KnuckleDownKnives]

Lol

"I bought a sweet one from Wal-Mart that sharpens itself every time you use it. FOR $9.99!! Beat that, suckers..."

Haha, right there is about where I had to stop reading...

 

[KnuckleDownKnives]

There is some impressive pattern welded (Damascus) that pushes the envelope.

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/my-damascus-steel.1401097/

And here I was under the impression unicorns were mythical. Daum.. I'm crawling back under my rock now.

 

[Kevin McGovern]

Haha, right there is about where I had to stop reading...

I'm pretty sure that guy was trolling, and he did it well.

 

[skillgannon]

I think this one on real tv is even better.

 

[Busto]

And here I was under the impression unicorns were mythical. Daum.. I'm crawling back under my rock now.

Well when you start out at the age of 10 and you spend your life(don't know his age)working with someone that has the knowledge to pass down plus his own creative ability I can understand his passion and what ART!!!! WOW mythical perhaps not

 

[Metalhead0483]

Heh... Some of those comments were pure gold...

 

[Lapedog]

I think this one on real tv is even better.

Is this for real? $22,000 minimum for a sword made out of some steel (they didn't feel the need to specify which was important) that this guy turns into "the most amazing super steel" by hitting it with a hammer. Then he makes it harder by freezing it and heating it over and over until suddenly it is done! He has now transformed some random steel into "SUPERSTEEL".

He tried to slip in some BS about how the fire changes the chemistry of the steel. I have heard of them burning charcoal or grasses with steels when they are forming the steel bloom to add carbon. But never heard about laying an already formed blade in a fire resulting in a chemical change to the steel.