Damascus steel knife blank 0301220521

Damascus Steel Knife Blank

The terms Damascus steel or pattern welded designate a composite steel forged from two or more different types of steel. It is named after its birthplace, the Syrian city of Damascus, an ancient stronghold of patterned steel production.

As common practice, a harder high carbon steel and a softer low carbon steel are repeatedly welded and folded. The high carbon steel ensures higher hardness, better temperability and greater edge retention, while the softer steel imparts greater flexibility and tensile strength. This procedure, which emerged at a time when steel qualities were often low and inconsistent, makes it possible to combine the positive attributes of different steel qualities.

Furthermore, the different shadings generated by the variable carbon content of the alternating layers engender strikingly beautiful patterns, such as the twisted motif called twist Damascus or Rose Damascus pattern. Undoubtedly, these unusual patterns partly explain why inherent magical properties were attributed to Damascus steel blades of the Middle Ages. Such a Damascene sword blade is depicted, for example, as a bloody worm or a venomous snake in the Edda.

Details:

hand-forged with 512 layers of Damascus steel.

Overall length: approx. 24.8 cm

Blade length: approx. 12 cm