The environnemental footprint of pattern welded Damascus steels must be substantial with all that steel waste, propane, electricity, grinding belts and discs, etc...
Hey Joe what do you think of San Mai blades? The ones with a high carbon core with a softer stainless steel on the sides. It’s sort of like Damascus except more performance based in my opinion
the couple of sanmai blades that I have made have been interesting. one was mild steel over a 1095 core. I hardened the whole thing and then tempered it at my normal tempering temp. the mild steel acted like a shock absorber and the whole blade was very easy to bend and it stayed bent. another that I remember doing was some damascus over a 1095 core, and that one worked much better as the damascus had some ability to be heat treated and so the blade acted much more like a homogenus blade. i think as long as you match your materials to what it is that you are after, do good welds, then heat cycle the steel to bring the grain size back down from when you blew it up doing the forge welds, and then saddle it up with a good heat treat and thoughtfull geometry that you could have a good blade.
yo Joe im about to start making a sheath for one of my knives and i watched a couple of your videos on how you make yours and i was just wondering why you use copper rivets instead of brass
for leather sheaths? I use mostly copper because that is what my friend ed used and he is the one that taught me how to make that style of sheath. I have used the brass ones also and they work good.
@joecalton1449 yes leather i forget to mention that sorry i dont like kydex because it makes to much noise scratching against stuff while im hunting im making one similar to yours but with some tweaks because factory knife sheaths are terrible you'd think they one would understand that a sheath to a knife is like a sling is to a rifle or a holster to a pistol but i guess they dont want to spend the extra time it takes to properly make a leather sheath which is probably why everyone uses kydex now but thanks for replying
I just don't get damascus at all. A knife is a tool. Why would you do anything that reduces the functionality? It doesn't even look that good to me. I prefer the look of a plain monosteel blade.
i can understand that. the other day I looked at a side by side shotgun that was for sale for several thousand dollars that would not hunt any better than my cz side by side that i payed $600 for. the expensive one had a ton of beautiful engraving and was hand fitted, but ill keep my relatively inexpensive working shotgun.
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Good informative video. Thank you.
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I've got a esse 6 in 1095. Like it pretty good
good to hear!
The environnemental footprint of pattern welded Damascus steels must be substantial with all that steel waste, propane, electricity, grinding belts and discs, etc...
Hey Joe what do you think of San Mai blades? The ones with a high carbon core with a softer stainless steel on the sides. It’s sort of like Damascus except more performance based in my opinion
the couple of sanmai blades that I have made have been interesting. one was mild steel over a 1095 core. I hardened the whole thing and then tempered it at my normal tempering temp. the mild steel acted like a shock absorber and the whole blade was very easy to bend and it stayed bent. another that I remember doing was some damascus over a 1095 core, and that one worked much better as the damascus had some ability to be heat treated and so the blade acted much more like a homogenus blade. i think as long as you match your materials to what it is that you are after, do good welds, then heat cycle the steel to bring the grain size back down from when you blew it up doing the forge welds, and then saddle it up with a good heat treat and thoughtfull geometry that you could have a good blade.
yo Joe im about to start making a sheath for one of my knives and i watched a couple of your videos on how you make yours and i was just wondering why you use copper rivets instead of brass
for leather sheaths? I use mostly copper because that is what my friend ed used and he is the one that taught me how to make that style of sheath. I have used the brass ones also and they work good.
@joecalton1449 yes leather i forget to mention that sorry i dont like kydex because it makes to much noise scratching against stuff while im hunting im making one similar to yours but with some tweaks because factory knife sheaths are terrible you'd think they one would understand that a sheath to a knife is like a sling is to a rifle or a holster to a pistol but i guess they dont want to spend the extra time it takes to properly make a leather sheath which is probably why everyone uses kydex now but thanks for replying
I totally ignore damask blades, but the sell price should compensate the maker for the less efficient manufacturing and one of a kind nature of it.
its not everyones cup of tea, thats for sure, but is sure is some pretty stuff :}
@ there are some crazy patterns out there, i hate to scratch black oxide tools, not think about damask.
I just don't get damascus at all. A knife is a tool. Why would you do anything that reduces the functionality? It doesn't even look that good to me. I prefer the look of a plain monosteel blade.
i can understand that. the other day I looked at a side by side shotgun that was for sale for several thousand dollars that would not hunt any better than my cz side by side that i payed $600 for. the expensive one had a ton of beautiful engraving and was hand fitted, but ill keep my relatively inexpensive working shotgun.