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wires through walls and conduits, etc. Even new, on Ebay anyway, they are pretty cheap and you get enough with one reel to make a bunch of blades. I haven"t tried it yet, but I plan to mix it in with some other wire. Re: old, rusty cable- I tried welding up some realy rusty cable since I can get nearly unlimited

get some of the galvanized guy strand (6 strands surrounding central strand) that is used for stabilizing utility poles and hundreds of other things. I remove the zinc coating with a good soak in hydrochloric or just plain burning (it makes such a pretty blue flame!). I know, I know, the fumes from burning zinc are really toxic, just use common sense and stand upwind, breathe through a long hose, whatever. I think many people have been so frightened off of using galvanized by the safety nannys that an excellent resource goes largely unused. I have found some used as barrier cable that was low carbon, so you gotta test first, but the guy wire here (N. California) has always been hi-C for me.

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Let’s take a look at an example where a maker wants to get serious about Damascus steel. This is a good way to use something you find interesting and fun to finance that power hammer you’re keen on.

When it comes to blade steels, there are a wealth of options that add to aesthetics, performance, or both. You could use a higher performance steel, you can add surface finishes like Cerakote, or you could invest some money in Damasteel or spend some time forging your own Damascus steel. Out of all these options, your own forged Damascus steel is the best value. The material costs are low; it’s the time and necessary experience which are the main costs.

Investing in training so you can make some seriously fine Damascus steel will pay for itself almost immediately. We’ve spoken to people who’ve done just that and have also done the math ourselves.

Let’s look at the numbers using our Gyuto from before. Instead of $1 per mm of blade ($255), let’s call it $2 per mm ($510) to account for our own Damascus steel.

Not bad at all, especially when you consider most makers forge their Damascus billets out to around 800mm. This means the time and effort you spend turning $40 of steel billet into $1,600 of Damascus steel is spread out over three or four knives.

That value is from using a charismatic steel alone. If you’ve invested in a Damascus steel course, you’ve got the added bonus of picking up some skills that will improve your level of fit-and-finish and your efficiency. This adds the premium you can charge for your work.

Here’s another example: let’s make that Gyuto again in Mosaic Damascus ($3 per mm) and at a higher level of fit and finish with a stabilised timber handle (premium + $100).

The best part of taking a course to learn the foundational skills of Damascus steel making is that the course not only pays for itself, it makes an immediate profit.

Let’s say you’re interested in learning basic Damascus patterns, as well as tiled Mosaics and Turkish Twists. We used a value of $2 per mm for basic Damascus earlier, so let’s say Mosaic and Turkish Twist are worth $3 per mm because they look stunning and show off the artist’s skill to a greater degree.

On a typical five-day Damascus Foundations course you make four billets of Damascus that are between 800mm and 600mm long, and around 60mm wide by 8mm thick. The total lengths come out around:

The course costs $3,000 so if you use all the Damascus from the course to make and sell knives, you’ll come out at a profit of $3,800 from doing the course.

Until you get your own power hammer, you might have to hand forge your Damascus for a while, borrow some time on someone else’s hammer (which is where Guild membership is a big help), or perhaps make your own Appalachian power hammer.

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The modern connotation of Damascus steel is different from the original Damascus of the past. Historic Damascus steel referred to as crucible stee,l which had a very high carbon content and had a visible surface pattern because of its crystalline structure.Tthis Damascus steel, or Wootz steel, ended up being called Damascus steel because the crusader,s on their way down to the Holy Lan,d would purchase new blades of this superior steel (superior to medieval European steel) in cities like Damascus. The modern connotation, however, is instead different kinds of steels that have been pattern-welded and that display a similar surface pattern when acid etched. The Damascus you will see made here is is of the latter definition. Cable Damascus is perhaps one of the easiest ways to create Damascus steel with a complex pattern. Unlike other techniques, this method requires no folding and essentially comes in its own ready to forge shape.

Like they always say, safety first! Seeing as how this whole process involves forging, grinding and dipping metal into chemicals, it is important to use the proper safety equipment. For the forge welding stage, many people who do any kind of smithing, know the basic safety equipment: gloves, apron, closed toed shoes, etc. Howeve,r one piece of equipment sometimes goes overlooked. Everyone knows that eye protection is important but for this kind of work you need a special kind of eye protection. The above and only picture in this section is of a pair of dydidium glasses. The reason that it is the only picture up there is because just about everybody who works with metal knows the safety basics but rarely do I see people point out this kind of eye protection. Normal goggles are usually fine for most crafts but not for forge welding. The heat required for forge welding puts out a bit of radiation that over the long term can cause vision loss. Dydidium however will block most of the radiation and save your eyes. One final point, dydidium glasses are not the same as welding masks or sunglasses. If you use either of these while forge welding, your pupils will dilate and your eyes will get even more of the radiation.

Before you can forge out your section of cable you have to set it all up. Before it goes in the fire you first have to cut off your section like in the first image. I cut off 3, 12 in sections of 1 inch cable at the time with a chop saw. You can use whatever method you like to cut the cable just be sure that the cable that you use is all steel with no plastic involved and that it is not galvanized as the heat reacting with the plating will produce gas that can make you very sick or even kill you. So keep that in mind when getting cable. Also, if this is your first time attempting cable Damascus you might not want to jump right in to the the larger diameter cable and instead start out with a piece of half inch. You wont be able to make anything more than a toothpick with the results but its a good way to practice without wasting bigger and more expensive cable.

After the cutting, be sure to wrap the ends of the cable with steel wire. This is to keep the section from unwinding during the first parts of the process. Be sure to only use plain steel wire because other wires that are coated or are made of other can melt or react with the heat and just mess everything up.

Everybody who makes Damascus has their own list of steps or additives that seem to make the whole process work for them. I encourage you to go, do some research and discover one that works for you. For me, I spray my cold metal with WD40 until it is just completely soaked and then coat the whole thing with regular borax before putting the sections in the fire. Both the borax and WD40 act to prevent oxidation which can make forge welding impossible. The borax won"t typically stick to metal unless its hot or wet and the WD40 will burn off in the forge so getting the section wet with WD40 and using that to stick the borax on seems to make everything work for me.

Damascus steel when ground down should look just like one solid piece of metal. In order to get the pattern, you need to etch the steel with an acid. There are several options as far as acids go but personally I use ferric chloride. If you only want a very superficial etch, like the one in the cover image, you only need to dip the metal in the acid for about 20 min. I wanted a very deep etch that could actually be felt so I dipped mine for 7 hours. Once you are done with the etch, you need to clean it and neutralize the acid. One of the easiest ways to do that is just to spray Windex on the etched piece after it has been rinsed off. Don"t forget to wear gloves and eye protection for all this. If you want to add some color to the piece, like the last two images in the title, just heat the piece up a bit after the etch until the desired color has been reached.

The piece I made here didn"t require any quenching or heat treating because it is a decorative piece. If you choose to make a blade out of cable Damascus one thing to keep in mind is that when quenched, the steel has a tendency to warp in the direction of the cable twist. If you want a functional piece, make it thick, otherwise you might start with a knife and end up with a corkscrew.

Hi Armeria. Thanks for your informative instructable.I think the warping is caused because the wires of the cable are nearly aligned in one direction and after quenching, the contraction force is also exerted unequally in one direction to cause the warp. Don"t you think folding the cable several times during the forge welding can obviate the problem?

I think that you might be confusing the revealed pattern with having gaps in the steel. Proper forge welding will create a homogeneous billet. The pattern that is shown is the result of acid reacting to the different carbon contents of the former wires that experienced carbon migration before being welded. I hope that this helps!0

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Damascus steel is a type of steel easily recognisable by its wavy patterned design. Aside from its sleek look and beautiful aesthetics, Damascus steel is highly valued as it is hard and flexible while maintaining a sharp edge.

The origin of the name "Damascus Steel" is contentious: two Islamic scholars Al-Kindi and Al-Biruni (from circa 800-873 CE) both wrote about swords and steels for swords based on the appearance, geographical location of where they were produced or forged, or the name of the blacksmith. And there is a mention from both scholars of "damscene" or "damascus" when describing the swords to some extent.

Al-Kindi called swords forged in Damascus in Siberia as "Damascene", but it is important to note that these swords were not described as having a wavy pattern appearance on the surface of the steel.

The most common explanation is that steel is named after the capital city of Syria, Damascus, the largest of the cities in the ancient Levant. It may either refer to swords made or sold in Damascus directly, or it may just refer to the aspect of the typical patterns, by comparison with Damask fabrics which are also named for Damascus.

Anyone who claims their knives are Damascus steel is not referring to the original method that was used to produce this steel as this technique and knowledge were lost in the 1700s.

The original method for making this steel was cast from wootz, a type of steel originally made in India over 2000 years ago. Weapons and other items made from wootz gained popularity in the 3rd to 4th century in the city of Damascus, now known as modern Syria.

Although people have gone to great lengths to reverse engineer the process to replicate Damascus steel, no one has been successful to cast a similar material.

Forging wootz into swords and other weapons lead to the creation of Damascus steel. This process was exclusive only to the elite, as it required considerable skill to maintain constant temperatures to produce steel with the infamous characteristic wavy pattern trademark.

Many steels may be labeled as “Damascus” steel, however, this type of steel has merely been etched which a light/dark pattern. This form of pattern welded steel is more of a mock imitation, as the pattern can be worn away and it by no means carries the true characteristics of Damascus steel.

Ultimately, most of today’s super exotic alloys will outperform any pattern-welded steel. Possessing and utilising a Damascus steel blade is more about personal style and respect for the time and process to develop such a blade.

A well-made Damascus blade will retain its sharpness for longer than most production quality blades, but if the goal is to use the best performing blade steel, you may find it elsewhere.

In saying that, quality is largely determined by how much it costs. True ‘name brand’ Damascus steel is of the highest quality. Knives made from these steels make for fantastic knives. Unfortunately, cheap knock offs from China, Pakistan and India flood the market and often show up on Ebay and other online retailers. Stay away from these as they are junk – as the say goes, if the price is too good to be true, it probably is.

If you are looking to buy a Damascus steel blade of true quality, do your research and treat it as an investment. We stock a wide range of high-grade Damascus knives from the world"s best brands, all the way to local bladesmiths in Australia. Shop our range of Damascus knives