What Makes This Damascus So Special? 

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For a second there, I thought 'what makes this "Damascus" special' was that it would include ACTUAL Damascus steel/ore. But just like everyone else, YOU LIED (if you actually know anything about forging other than being taught/learning without researching deeper). You used bog-standard shop-bought steel. Forging two different types of steel together DOESN'T make it 'Damascus'. That just makes it 'pattern forged'. REAL Damascus steel comes from ONE mine near Damascus, and contains a very specific antimony content, which provides special characteristics that you can't get by just forging two different steels together. Please stop using terms that you've heard other liars using, you're destroying the history and efforts of those who came before you. All in the quest for clicks. It's embarrassing.

I'm sure there's a weathered and experienced old man that could show you son a thing or 2 about blacksmithing

But if not, RU-vid teaches better than nothing at all

@@fitnessandfirearms7503 Yes ME! I am 61 and I used to demonstrate back in South Carolina in the 1980s-2000s. I was a member of the Phillip Simmons Chapter of ABANA in SC. I also demonstrated at historical events in Upstate SC. SO maybe I can remember what I am doing. Ahahahah ahahaha . Jim

easiest way would be to use a photoshop or another illustrative tool that helps you conceptualize it. since it can do alot of it automatically without much need for brain power.

unless you are inventing something new, then it's already been done before and you are just following a template. Devin Thomas is the king of Damascus. also Anyone that makes stainless Damascus is a certified bad ass.

It often seems like witchcraft (or wizardry I guess) when someone well practiced in a field does something intuitive to them, or in this case can conceptualize the way the pattern will shift when doing different things to the metal. From observation I can see Will does a lot of sketching of the pattern, you can see his ideation of how he stacks and rotates the pattern in his sketch. I think a lot of it comes down to your knowledge of everything involved, what your good at (sketching vs computer aided design, etc) and experience. For example, simply being upside down in relation to a fastener often screws up with my "righty tighty, lefty loosey" mental ideation, and I sometimes struggle to determine the correct direction merely because my base perspective has changed. I have no doubt I would likewise struggle with nearly all these Damascus patterns because the methods and processes are a total mind bender. Having some training in CAD I would probably need to have an origin point everytime I sketched a pattern, and would have to indicate the origin every time I rotated or manipulated the pattern or I'd get lost 😂 not to mention the many times I would intend to do the pattern a specific way on paper but screw it up in reality 🤣

I agree.

Already done it- Steve Schwarzer, video was a couple years ago

Ya know, knowing you, your passion to the craft and your work ethic, my baseline assumption should have been that you had already. Never change Will

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A pattern like this takes days to put together, and you saw how much steel he started with and how much he ended with, right? There's many, many cut out (in the video) cuts, heat cycles, sanding, welding, cut, forge, etc. It is an expensive endeavor to simply let randomness take it's chance. If you are a hobbyist then you could do that but it's Wills livelihood, so in all likelihood he keeps the vast majority of his experiments on paper. You can kind of "pretend" to make a pattern entirely on paper if your understanding of the different ways to manipulate the pattern is good enough you might nearly be right. And if you are really good you can try it and find where you were wrong, an expert might get it right more than they get it wrong. 😅

@@DracoOmnia There are other channels that do random patterns out of a random assortment of metals like nails or hooks just to see what the pattenr ends up like. As a viewer I find it infintely more interesting to see something totally random come out of damascus than something that is pre-determined. While it will sell better as a knife if it's actually done that way, I do think there can be value in chaos as well. As long as you make sure the pattern is on the right side of the the blade in the end, it would be neat to see someone just try to randomize the pattern with really weird ways of manipulating the billet. maybe it doesn't come out nice, maybe it does, people will most likely buy the knife regardless and there's revenue in the video as well. Don't think Will's livelyhood s dependant on what the damascus on his blades looks like. But if he doesn't find enjoyment in doing random damascus, then that's fair. But as a viewer it would be neat to see some weird billet manipulation other than "twist" or "ladderpattern" or "mosaic".

@@Revonlieke I think most of those guys doing that are mostly just seeing if they can even get it to work, any pattern they can find or get to show up after making a blade out of chainsaw chains is just gravy on top of managing to make a blade at all from scrap material. And sure there's some entertainment value there for sure, it's fun to see the wins and fails. However, and I feel this is pretty safe to say confidently, Will is an artist. And not some avant garde "throw literal shit at wall, call it art and charge a million dollars" type, but methodical, testing the limits of his knowledge, skill and abilities. It's methodical and that can be tedious but the results speak for themselves, his knives command what would otherwise be absolutely outrageous prices... Except the craftsmanship and esthetic make the price totally valid (to some people, at least). I get where you are coming from and Will does do some experimentation, but in general I prefer to see the inner machinations of his process and how they get to these outrageous, seemingly impossible patterns. I mean, you do see how wild that pattern is? How it looks like woven, twisted wire? It's mad, if you had to reverse engineer that pattern you could never do it, and that's bad ass

Journeyman tests.

It's a 2 part test. The practical test, with the rope cutting etc and the can you make something pretty test.

Use the force Will Use the force Light, dark, invisible. Only different shades of silver gray to black.

Yes. Introduce other metals such as copper

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It's a two stage test. The practical can you cut the rope etc test and a separate can you make something pretty test

@@Sarah-fy3qf ahh, I kind of had a feeling. Thank you