Thought Damascus steel was all hype until I handled a real blade at a meetup in Nashville

I spent years rolling my eyes at guys paying crazy money for a blade with wavy lines. Figured it was just looks, no real improvement. Then a guy at the Tennessee Blacksmith Association meetup last April let me test his forged Damascus knife against a piece of rebar. Cut clean through after three passes, no edge roll. My best high carbon steel chipped on the third hit. Now I get why people chase it.

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oscar74314d ago

Start questioning if that rebar had something off in its grain structure.

grantf7314d ago

Oh man, you're probably onto something there. I've seen weird grain issues show up in the weirdest places and cause total failures that looked like something else entirely.

felix_hayes6414d ago

Oh man @oscar743, a buddy of mine had some concrete crack just like that on a job last year.