You've Never Seen a Damascus Pattern like This One 

Knife making videos usually have a very chill and peaceful edition. I like the reality of someone two handedly beating the shit out of a glowing bar of steel.

Worth all the PIA. Simply amazing. " That Works " brought me here.

Hey 👋 there Kyle is a great 👍 honor 🎖 that how you make that patterns it was a big challenge buddy great work blessings 🙌

this video is criminally under-liked, this is crazy

Did anyone else cringe when they saw him weld that to the face of the anvil 😬

I love seeing all the problem solving that went into getting this thing welded up

A ton of work and all completely worth the effort. Well done! 👍👍

I bet that pattern would look great on a flamberge knife or sword! Great work guys!

Hey I really like that you went for such a unique pattern shape, how about trying it with some thinner stock? or just less of it, because it was so thick it was difficult to do. I think if you do that pattern with a bit less thickness you can do the bends more easily.

Did he just weld that to the anvil? wow. Nice looking.

wow, that's insane. hell of a lot of work

Wow. Jst amazed to see how the metal was moving zig zag.pattern came out cool

I see what you were shooting for! Quite a labour intensive pattern there. Hats off to you mate! Next one will be easier, as you'll know what not to do. Keep it up!

Turned out amazing! Need to make something to support the sides while you squish it, like putting it in a big square tube or something. I really enjoyed the editing

That’s a beautiful zebra pattern. Probably right up there with mosaic Damascus in terms of all the hard work it required! Awesome job.

Magnifique travail, quel Damas fantastique ! Par contre c'est une galère pour le réaliser. Super, et merci de partager ta passion, c'est un plaisir de te voir travaillé 😉✌️

A guided support for the material while squishing on end would have solved it, like placing it in some box section once you’ve made the accordion. Then squish down into it and cut off the box

Living in Georgia, I’m imagining that steel rusting as it sits in that bucket immediately after grinding.

dude thats just insane...and i freakin looove it!!

What gr8 videos Kyle and kyles father! Just amazing taking a hunk of welded steel, forging it and then beating it into beautiful submission! Ergo Damascus! Keep it going all!

That looks really frustrating but very cool.

dude is a pioneer

Reminds me of clouds in Japanese art. It also looks like a lot more work than regular folding.

talk about dedication to the cause. putting in some serious work for a pattern...

Looks like 2 jelly roll damascus bars smashed together kinda neat

I tried doing this a couple years back ( called it "riverrun")... I love forged patterns much more than stock removal patterns.. As you found out the problem is in compressing the accordion shape back on itself and trying to do this an a efficient way as to not allow inclusions from excessive slag build up. Was wondering about making a heavy wall tube with a "plunger" slightly smaller than the ID of the tube.... sliding the accordion shaped damascus into the tube and compress under the press using the plunger... this would keep things fairly in line, cut tubing away and finish welding/compressing under press. I am not a bladesmith at all but a 45 year full time smith with an occasional fascination for damascus as my teacher in the beginning was Darryl Myers

That was quite the battle! I'm impressed that you were able to forge-weld the folds back together. Though I'm thinking that if you want to do this again, there must be an easier way. Maybe do one fold at a time? Or put the whole accordion into a custom square tube and press it down from above?

i jus skiped to the end and the knife fooled for a second wow

I'd call it the "reverse accordion". Way to keep at it, I'm not sure I would've lol. Looks like it may work a bit easier if you take the thickness down a bit more before you try to close it up. Great vid!

Stupid question but, what is the liquid that you were soaking your billet in before fluxing and going into the forge?

Not only did you create a pattern that really is new on me you adaptively made tooling on the fly. Supa dupa boss mode achieved.

Rectangle hollow section to keep it from being pushed over

That has to have been so frustrating to make work..but well done theres some serious forge welding skills gone into that pattern. Definitely unusual and I think if I were to try it I would do each bend in sequence rather than all at once if you see what I mean. Did you ever make a blade from it?

Your pop sure knows how to move metal!

Btw can you show a pic of the finished blade please I really want to see how the pattern ended up

Do you think it was worth the hassle, in the end?

At 3:34 now, just beating this into submission. Going to suggest maybe you start the squiggle and then compress it inside a tube with a ram so it doesnt deflect.

Wow that pattern in the end. Any bad welds?

Hello. I have a question, the liquid at the beginning of the video that you had the metal soaking in, what is it and why do you have it in it? Awesome video thank you.

I think that you must return each of the 90-degree bends to return to the next time, next time, next time, this time, and you can not use a press because it does not enter the press force that does not require the press.

Why do they put the stag into the water buket? To pess Out any air?

Работа обалденная, но половина ушла в отход, и времени потрачено очень много. Стоит ли? Или это эксперимент?

You should do one by one not all of 3 times in one time then TRYING to putting on

This looks like an insanely stressfull experience...

you should mix different types of Damascus steel

What chemical did u use at 6.02 ?

As i said b4, mate……. better become a jeweler! ;) great piece of work! By the way…… i love the take Outs at the end. That Shows up that not only me will drop the work. :D ;)

Надо было газорезкой кусками прогревать и вертикально под пресс

great video as always, Kyle, and i mean no disrespect by asking this... but what exactly makes this pattern special? it looks like a million other damascus patterns i've seen over the years... only real difference i see is that you took about 3 times as many steps to get there. seriously asking, not trolling... what am i missing?

If he was gonna weld it to anvil, he would have been better to leave top of anvil clean and weld piece to the side of anvil. Not used as much as top and then you can swing hammer in downward stroke.

Fun fact. I accidentally made Damascus. I call it Dumbasscus.

Reminds me of a cinnabun

Bending jig, 2 gigantic pins? Bend from the tip to hilt and only heat immediate bend area?

Kyle is abs master smith and you have your dad in on the deal... did you teach him?? I know he does a lot of your kitchen knives?

Looks like the pattern on the surface of cut wood.

following tradition has it's merits . Fold , heat , fold , heat … then repeat

Nice experiment but the outcome does´nt seem to justify the workload for a pattern like that. I´d be scared that the welding surfaces would´nt be clean enough, i´m amazed you pulled that off !

I can see why noone makes this pattern.. It's a nightmare :p

Drop it like it's hot, because it is? lol 6:17

Why do you use sheet metal to enclose some billets and not other times?

And if they make a thick metal box and put it inside as if it were a magazine spring

I am going to go out on a limb and pray for no inclusions since none of the spots where the steel was folded over on itself were cleaned and fluxed? I am hoping for a successful piece since I too take the approach of two handed chopping

I watch the work being done and feel exhausted as if I was making it , every swing I find myself holding breath as to put a bit more power into it. Half way through the video I say screw it and get back to work. In short I never watch these until right before I have to work so I don’t feel lazy. Lol

I see all blacksmiths making Damascus steel using 1095 or 1080 with 15n20 mostly . Why only these steels ?

It's a nice looking damascus almost wood looking.. but a real pain in the ass to forge. Maybe forge it by section but the motif will loose his organic allonged look

You did the impossible! But to be honest I didn't like the pattern and it seems like a miracle to not have delaminations with all the pretzel bending.

taht's just another color of pewdiepies color code thingy

Столько труда а результат?

Soft serve bullet anyone?

What is that water? In 0:23

You made cinnamon buns.

Did I just see someone tack welding a piece to an anvil face and then commence to heating it while laying flat on the anvil face with a torch? I'm all for experimenting but Jesus that was hard to watch.

What is a billet?

Slinkey damascus

umm dad is in shape...

4:10 just my 2 cents. The blower(I think) while the video is running in time lapse is like a spike in my eardrums to the extent I need to turn my phone volume down. No earbuds in either. Stupid complaint, I know.. But my wife made the point that it may bother other people and they won't say anything either. Lol. If nobody else mentions it, I would disregard!

Mokume damascus

There's a reason they don't forge em like this

instructions: 1. weld desired pieces together 2. heat up 3. go to town on that shit with a sledge

it's like Oaxaca cheese..

A power hammer is nothing against your dad🤪

BITE-

All that for a pattern that doesn't look as good as regular ones he makes!

How often do modern day knife makers have to get their lungs checked for things like silicosis or related complaints?

That’s not really surprising results. You did a good job 👍🏻 but the title of the vid is misleading, or is it being that Damascus pattern are probably like fingerprints no 2 are the same.

Zebramascus

Way to much time n work for the end result

Seems like a ton of work and wasted material for a pattern that doesn't look super interesting 😅

Zebramascus?

Someone goes to all that effort to make an interesting damascus pattern and then turn out crap blade.

Good effort but pattern...

No Music please and thank You if I wanted to listen to music I would search for music.

This was the second biggest waste of my time on youtube

meh different but not that impressive, but innovate more

Meh...

This is a failure. It didn't turn out how you designed it.