Crucible steel (a.k.a., wootz or water steel) is the original Damascus steel and contains a carbon content between one and two percent with the best versions hovering around 1.5 percent carbon.

Watch as a skilled blacksmith transforms a car chain into a stunning Damascus steel knife. Experience the entire process, from heating the metal to the final forging, and witness the craftsmanship ...

The Damascus steel you’ll see in YouTube videos, TV shows, and elsewhere is a steel with complex bands and striations on its surface. It’s often used in knife blades, ...

Recreating Damascus steel remains a holy grail of materials science. The exact process and alloys used are long ago lost to time. At best, modern steelworking methods are able to produce a rough vi… ...

Gustafsson specializes in hand-producing Damascus steel, which is a beautiful form of often multi-colored metal that has a wood grain texture. After taking on projects from major watch makers, ...

As for the blades’ closest visual analog, Damascus steel, that has its own somewhat mythical origin story, rooted in the Near East. It can be traced back to India to around 500 AD, where it was ...

We’ll never know how closely modern Damascus steel matches up to the ancient original. It’s believed that the stuff inspired Valyrian steel, the rare White Walker-thwarting material from George R.R.

Available in a limited edition of 99 pieces, each of the Heritage Corum Lab 01 Damascus models retails for $16,800. (Two versions in Titanium are also being offered with red or white accents for ...

This three-steel-knife set includes a santoku, a nakiri, and a gyuto all forged in Seki, Japan, using Damascus steel. They are gorgeous, each with a unique pattern across the blade.

Knives comes in all shapes and sizes but the sheer variety won’t stop many EDC enthusiasts from the same end: a collection of blades that all look, well … the same.That’s where Damascus comes in. To ...