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Posted by Charly the Bastard on November 1, 2006, 7:30 am
Please log in for more thread options Chilla wrote:
> Charly the Bastard wrote:
> > Chilla wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi Guys,
> >>
> >>I've known about this product for some time, and quite nice it is too,
> >>however I personally don't like the uniformity, I prefer randomness.
> >>
> >>It's good if you can't make your own billets, or you want exactly the
> >>same knife/item.
> >>
> >>Regards Charles
> >>P.S. You pay for it ;-)
> >>
> >>John O. Kopf wrote:
> >>
> >>>http://www.damasteel.biz/index.html
> >
> >
> > Really nice hammer though, almost too nice to use.
> >
> > Charly
>
> Never thought of using stainless steel tools for forging, would have
> thought it would be too brittle? :-
>
> Would you use the Damasteel, seeing it's for the wasted steel method,
> forging the stuff would screw the pattern.
>
> What do you prefer random or uniform patterns?
>
> Charles
Seems to me that brittle would depend on the heat treatment more than the
content. I didn't really look at the site all that much, as I make my own. I
can't see how using a tool would screw up the pattern all that much, unless
you had internal flaws that would cause delamination in use. Every pattern
is 'random', even if you try to get repeats. As long as you hammer you're
going to get variance in the finished piece. Each stroke moves the metal
around, and unless you use a robot you're never going to hit the work
exactly the same twice. You can plan for tendencies, but in the end it's
still a crapshoot. But that's part of the fun. Sometimes you get pictures. I
had a bud that made a billet that had shamrocks running down the length;
he's Irish. I had another bud whose billet had a wolfpack in it, he's a
Biker. I've had dragons, Dwarves, mountain ranges, all kinds of stuff show
up in the finished work. Magick, I tell ya. Magick. Maybe those olde stories
about magic weapons aren't so far off after all. Fire is a Live Thing; blood
and sweat get hammered into the billet during forging. Stranger things have
happened, you've just got to be open to things.
Charly
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