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My second Damascus blade


kerryd

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Should have been 57 layers, but I think chasing down an inclusion brought it down to about 50. This is the last time I use a farrier's rasp without grinding it totally flat and smooth, probably the last time I use one period. There IS a learning curve. This is only my 4th attempt at forge welding a billet and my second at anything over three layers. If I stay anal enough about cleaning my steel to keep inclusions out of a 200 layer twisted billet in the future I will count myself lucky. "you don't have to be good if you're lucky".

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