Damascus

Brian asked me to post this now so I will.  It's not a knife yet - it needs a handle & sharpening - but this is my first damascus steel blade.  I made it at the New England School of Metalwork.

 This damascus steel is more accurately called pattern-welded steel.  It's made my forge-welding together alternating layer of two different types of steel.  After lots of folding & manipulation (think croissant dough) you shape it into a blade and then etch it to bring out the differences between the two different steel.

It's not really any better than 'regular' steel, but it's very pretty and big fun to make.