kbaknife Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Well, fellas, here's my first Damascus blade etched. This ended up being 405 layers of 1084/15N20. I got a fantastic amount of chatoyance. (3-D) For those of you who may not be entirely familiar with forging Damascus, the 3-D effect going on there is the result of the hammer blows from the power hammer and the hand held hammers distorting the layers while forging, as well as the grinding between stacking and re-welding. Since you have to grind of the scale after each welding cycle, and the layers keep getting thinner and thinner, you actually end up grinding through the top layers of the billet. As well, while forging the blade, I went berserk on the bar of steel with a ball piene hammer before finishng out the blade. The blade is actually perfectly smooth. Next is to finish out the knife and then hot-blue the blade. The hot-bluing will make that knife come ALIVE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad J Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 looks really good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucegodlesky Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Nice effect with the ball peen Karl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me miller Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 Really like the high layer stuff. man you need to make more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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