Cable Damascus Steel
On the cutting edge steel w110 zone hardening 62 units.
Cable damascus steel. Mosaic damask steel from the cable. Ha makes all the materials for his knives including micarta and mokume. Wootz steel contained impurities alloys of titan. Sounds like he used steel wool after a deep etch and took the blade back down to shiny steel which would then leave what appeared to be a shiny steel blade with a distinct cable damascus etch.
Apr 9 2005 12. No not at all. Is cable steel pretty much the same as damascus steel. The old metallurgical engineer and steelmaker says.
Cable damascus kiridashi neck knife nathansforge 5 out of 5. His knives are individually crafted and hand made in san mai and cable damascus among other steels. Cable damascus steel eagle the iron sentinel h 20 1 2 x 6 1 2 w wassmanarteffects 4 5 out of 5 stars 8 12 300 00. After you get rid of any burned steel flatten it out at your leisure though i still like to work at high heat like i would wrought iron.
Damascus steel was the forged steel of the blades of swords smithed in the near east from ingots of wootz steel imported from southern india these swords are characterized by distinctive patterns of banding and mottling reminiscent of flowing water or in a ladder or teardrop pattern. Favorite add to see similar items more like this. The process of forging a blade from a cable. 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.
What gives cable damascus its pattern is the pattern of the decarbed outer part of the cable strands but some of the cables on the outside of the billet will likely be totaly burnt. The modern connotation of damascus steel is different from the original damascus of the past. Ariel elias salaverria is an argentine knifemaker specialized in damascus forged knives. Any over head type cable.
Such as crane cable elevator cable and i believe cable chokers i don t recall the composition of cable chokers right off hand pretty much any of those that aren t galvanized. Edited december 7 2009 by chadj added info. Damascus steel was made from wootz steel ingots from india or sri lanka.