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By SpaceAnomaly 2016-04-30 13:34:33
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By Ragnarok.Raenil 2016-04-30 14:05:34
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If the blade is real Damascus, getting a pattern that tight must've taken a lot of time and work.
There's a good chance the 'damascus' pattern is just a finish they put on at the end to prevent rust. One of my swords has the same finish.
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By Sylph.Shadowlina 2016-04-30 14:22:37
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By Anna Ruthven 2016-04-30 14:23:07
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Ragnarok.Raenil said: »
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If the blade is real Damascus, getting a pattern that tight must've taken a lot of time and work.
There's a good chance the 'damascus' pattern is just a finish they put on at the end to prevent rust. One of my swords has the same finish.
Yeah, kinda like gun bluing. It looks to have been treated but if you zoom in close (I'm on a phone) you can see the pattern... Which doesn't guarantee it's real Damascus but the pattern is tighter that some other knives. Could be lazer-etched though. Even real Damascus wouldn't be that dark unless treated somehow.
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By Bismarck.Dracondria 2016-04-30 14:23:31
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Pattern welding is the practice in sword and knife making of forming a blade of several metal pieces of differing composition that are forge-welded together and twisted and manipulated to form a pattern. Often called (Modern) Damascus steel, blades forged in this manner often display bands of slightly different patterning along their entire length. These bands can be highlighted for cosmetic purposes by proper polishing or acid etching.
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By Anna Ruthven 2016-04-30 14:25:21
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Pattern welding is what I refer to as "real" I don't know if the real, old way of producing Damascus steel is even known.
 
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By Bismarck.Dracondria 2016-04-30 14:28:12
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Anna Ruthven said: »
Pattern welding is what I refer to as "real" I don't know if the real, old way of producing Damascus steel is even known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel
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By Bismarck.Magnuss 2016-04-30 14:36:10
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That's years of therapy in the making.
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By Sylph.Shadowlina 2016-04-30 14:41:31
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Shadowlina>>The BCC code is frustrating to look at.
Feels bad man. Feels bad.


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i did a terrible thing. but i was doing my best at 5AM i'm sorry :(
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By Bismarck.Dracondria 2016-04-30 14:44:59
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That link is fascinating drac.

Apparently we have no idea how Damascus steel was originally made but we discovered carbon fibre nanotubes and ***in it, lol.

You see a lot of people on videos about swords saying steel like that is superior to modern steels and other garbage lol, it's kinda funny
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By Ragnarok.Raenil 2016-04-30 14:47:17
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Anna Ruthven said: »
Pattern welding is what I refer to as "real" I don't know if the real, old way of producing Damascus steel is even known.
To the best of my knowledge, it isn't. True Damascus was just unusually pure steel for it's time period. And that happened to cause a pattern weld in the process.

Modern steels completely outperform it.
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By Asura.Shiraiyuki 2016-04-30 14:47:32
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Tired, sore and almost back home, but the trip to Dusseldorf today was totally worth it even though DoKomi isn't really my type of event.
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By Anna Ruthven 2016-04-30 14:49:12
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Bismarck.Dracondria said: »
Bismarck.Josiahfk said: »
That link is fascinating drac.

Apparently we have no idea how Damascus steel was originally made but we discovered carbon fibre nanotubes and ***in it, lol.

You see a lot of people on videos about swords saying steel like that is superior to modern steels and other garbage lol, it's kinda funny
You mean people pattern welding and saying that? That stuff is made of modern steel so it isn't exactly better than what steel it's made of.
 
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By Bismarck.Dracondria 2016-04-30 14:50:53
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Anna Ruthven said: »
You mean people pattern welding and saying that? That stuff is made of modern steel so it isn't exactly better than what steel it's made of.

No people saying the steel they used hundreds of years ago (or even a thousand) is better than what we use today, or how their techniques were so much better and created swords better than today


Or how katanas can 'cut through anything' if it's traditionally made in Japan lol
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By Anna Ruthven 2016-04-30 14:51:24
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Pattern welding is what I refer to as "real" I don't know if the real, old way of producing Damascus steel is even known.
To the best of my knowledge, it isn't. True Damascus was just unusually pure steel for it's time period. And that happened to cause a pattern weld in the process.

Modern steels completely outperform it.
I'd like to make a gun out of some of the pattern welded stuff. Like in the style of a Colt 1851 Richards-Mason conversion.
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By Ragnarok.Raenil 2016-04-30 14:52:06
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Nah, he mean people claiming original Damascus stuff is superior to modern steels. You get a lot of katana fanboys claiming ancient Japanese folded steels are superior as well. Same with the crucible steel the Celts and Vikings were making.

It's all a load of crap.
 
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By Anna Ruthven 2016-04-30 14:58:02
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Bismarck.Dracondria said: »
Anna Ruthven said: »
You mean people pattern welding and saying that? That stuff is made of modern steel so it isn't exactly better than what steel it's made of.

No people saying the steel they used hundreds of years ago (or even a thousand) is better than what we use today, or how their techniques were so much better and created swords better than today


Or how katanas can 'cut through anything' if it's traditionally made in Japan lol
Yeah, talk to a gun nut and they'll tell you that steel has come a long way just in the past 100 years or so so several hundred to a thousand years ago it was better than it is now? I'd call BS.

On a Japanese Katana; there are some katana that are forged and treated in the traditional way and they are works of art IMO, but the stuff about them cutting through gun barrels in WWII is a myth. Has to be. No soldier in WWII was issued anything more than a bayonet of some sort and I doubt an officer's mass produced dress sword, while katana-like, was forged like one. Who the hell would bring a priceless relic to the front lines of WWII? ...Aside from Mad Jack.
 
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By Anna Ruthven 2016-04-30 15:10:10
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A lot of our rebar comes from Mexico. I've heard of rebar so bad that when they'd drop a 20 foot rod on the ground, it'd shatter into 3-4 pieces.
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By Pantafernando 2016-04-30 16:12:37
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So, whats your opinion about windows 10?
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By Bismarck.Magnuss 2016-04-30 16:12:41
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When I was a kid, I used to RP in the Yahoo chat rooms. I would get into it and I would play characters that were less... vampirey. One of the characters was a blind retired soldier. Another was a blacksmith and I used to do research (what little research was possible on the internet in 2000) into how to be a blacksmith. A part of me thought it was a noble job and I wanted to try it, but being around all that heat, I feel like I'd hate it. Still, this stuff you're posting is like porn to 14 year old me.
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