pilgrim6a

OK. I'm just showing off.

Steve666

Quite pretty. Here is my favorite, I have a thing for the recurve blade shape:

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pilgrim6a

That's interesting.
Mine started life as a Muela Arocho. The only non stainless knife they made at the time.
They always made nice knives with so-so handles.
But as you see, that can be changed.

pff

Can I play too?



Prolly one of the nicest I have:



Fastest blade I have ever handled. You just think where you want the tip to be and its already there.

Doesn't hurt that its purty too!


Regards,

Pat

oberstlt

Pat - a handsome beast that.

gib

Pat,

Is that Damascus steel? It’s beautiful.

Gib

trooper

Knives? Sissies. :o)
Seriously though, great work on that knife handle pilgrim6a.

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Heraclitis, 500 BC.

pff

Gib, its commonly called 'damascus' but technically its pattern-welded. Two slightly different steels are forge-welded in layers, then manipulated by twisting, folding, grooving, etc. Once the blade is finished and ground, it is etched to bring out the patterns, one of the steels being more reactive to the etch than the other.

True Damascus is forged from ingots made in NW India where the impurities from that particular ore cause carbide banding. The mines played out in the late 1700's. The 'smiths then manipulated the billet in much the same way to achieve various patterns. Some of the finest bladesmiths were in Syria, hence the name.

This is my only exemplar of true Damascus, though the pattern is hard to see. The blade was likely forged 300-400 years ago, then was rehandled in Rajahstan around 1850.



Bladesmiths in northern Europe were pattern-welding during the same period, usually to produce a blade with harder edges and softer core, the best steel being reserved for the edge layer.

Interesting processes.


Regards,

Pat

gib

Thanks for the info Pat. That's amazing that you have a knife that’s that old with all that history.

Trooper- Is that standard issue? :-)

oberstlt

Great axe Trooper. You look good with it!