Damascus!!

[taz575]

Took a 16 layer chunk from my first forge welded billet. It was 1.3" tall, 1.7" wide and around 1.25" long. Forged this out by hand!

[mauichef]

I really Like that Tim! Beautiful handle too. Well done.

[taz575]

Spent the day at Dragons Breath Forge today and got this billet done!! Drew out the original bar that was 16 layers and cut it into 6 pieces:

stacked, re welded:

and drew out this bar!

Its 96 layers, 33" long, 1.8" wide and .31" thick. This way I can draw out a profile, pattern it if I want (or leave it as random pattern) and then forge the bevels. Not sure what knives are coming out of this bar yet!

[Kekoa]

Oooooo, that is exciting... It'll be fun to see what you decide to do with it.

[taz575]

I took the little cut off piece from the end of the billet after I did the 1st draw out at 16 layers and etched it. Layers look nice!! The deep scratches are from using a very coarse file to flatten it quickly so I could etch it.

The billet now has 6 times the layers I gotta get a cut off from that one and etch it, maybe this evening!!

[taz575]

[Kekoa]

Any thoughts on what you'll do with it yet??

[taz575]

I think a few edc/hunters, not sure what else yet