No forge? No problem. This blade was built from the ground up in a garage - and it’s real Damascus steel, forged with grit ...

Quintin Middleton makes Damascus steel chef knives by welding two types of steel together. The bladesmith extends the concept of “blending” into his forging process as well. “My style is ...

He made his knives by hand from the very best materials ... Moran began trying to revive the ancient process of forging Damascus steel in the late 1960s. The metal got its name, historians ...

From raw steel to a custom blade—this is the story of my first handmade chef’s knife. Guided by a world-class bladesmith, I shaped, forged, and finished a knife that’s both functional and beautiful.

His artistically forged, welded and fabricated metalwork encompasses Damascus ... layers of steel are sandwiched together to form a billet, resembling a deck of cards, which is hand-forged and ...

The golden ages for damascene (Damascus) steel have been the result of metallurgical ... almost double deformation stresses. Hand forging must, therefore, take place on relatively small dimensions.

“The knife is superb, it’s perfectly balanced, it fits into the hand and ... is the Damascus steel he makes: a blend of high-carbon and high-nickel steels using ancient forging techniques.

If you grow up around a working blacksmith’s forge, there are a few subjects ... a little jarring to metalwork pedants, so-called Damascus steel. Why the Syrian capital should pop up in this ...