The work is absolutely fabulous. And it just keeps getting better and better and better all the time. I never even heard of Damascus two years ago and now look at this this is the most beautiful thing you can do with steel look at your art what a talented person!I also enjoy the cold Forge how antiquated can it be. That’s the way the forefathers did it.
Good job, bro. Honestly, this pattern that u mentioned above, is not truly, cause when u will cut the metal to the middle part to make a knife all rain drops would be deleted and you’ll see only straight lines little bit changed like random Damascus in the cutting line of the knife, but on the body, maybe will be some circles. Hello from Russia, mat’ washu. Best wishes
Sorry for the slow reply XD Yes, I sell to the US. I tend to etch in 10 min cycles just so I can be sure the pattern is developing as I want it to and it doesn't etch too deeply. This is basically a test etch so I only did one cycle, but for a finished blade I do multiple 10 minute cycles until I'm happy with the result and then sometimes follow it up with a coffee etch to really up the contrast.
The final billet had 64 layers. I started with 8 pieces each of 1095 and 15n20, welded once, cut into four pieces, stacked, and welded again giving me a total of 64. You could certainly have a higher layer count, so when you drilled it more are revealed in the raindrops. You could also have the billet thinner when before you drill, which would give you tighter packed layers, which would reveal more. Depends on the look you want.
@@IlmarinenForgeworks thanks for getting back to me! i started with 5 layers of old file and 5 layers of band saw blade welded it then cut it into 3 and welded again for a total of 30 layers. I don't really want to push my luck anymore with the welds so i am going to try it with 30 layers and see what happens :)
