Lady Liberty’s Steel II—Fires of Perseverance, a one-of-a-kind 16 ¾” Damascus dagger by the world’s first woman American Bladesmith Society Master Smith, Audra Draper, will be auctioned ...

On public demand, I forged a Damascus Cleaver, facing the challenge of combining stainless steel with carbon steel. Using rulers, I created the billet from martensitic stainless steel with high ...

Damascus blades were forged from small cakes of steel from India called ‘wootz’. All steel is made by allowing iron with carbon to harden the resulting metal. The problem with steel ...

Damascus steel—and modern versions of the steelmaking technique—is generally synonymous with artisan forgework. In traditional Japanese sword-making, for example, the steel is repeatedly ...

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 ...

Damascus steel has intrigued researchers from Michael Faraday to material scientists in the present day Read more: " Nine lost treasures – and why science wants them back " European ...