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Anna Ruthven said: »  If the blade is real Damascus, getting a pattern that tight must've taken a lot of time and work. The BCC code is frustrating to look at.
Feels bad man. Feels bad. 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.
Quote: 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. 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.
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 Bismarck.Dracondria said: » Bismarck.Josiahfk said: » Shadowlina>>The BCC code is frustrating to look at. Feels bad man. Feels bad. : ( 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 Apparently we have no idea how Damascus steel was originally made but we discovered carbon fibre nanotubes and ***in it, lol.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 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. Modern steels completely outperform it. 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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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 Apparently we have no idea how Damascus steel was originally made but we discovered carbon fibre nanotubes and ***in it, lol.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 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 Ragnarok.Raenil said: » 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. Modern steels completely outperform it. 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. 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 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. 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.
So, whats your opinion about windows 10?
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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