Crafting a Damascus Viking sword from nails involves repurposing old iron nails by forging and folding them to create layered Damascus steel. The process involves heating, hammering, and folding ...

This is useless for sword steel since the blade would shatter upon impact with a shield or another sword. Wootz, with its especially high carbon content of about 1.5%, should have been useless for ...

This katana is designed to be the perfect size and weight for anyone looking for a quality sword. This katana is made from high quality steel and is full-tang, which means it has a long blade and ...

If you have a passion for swords, samurai, and steel, but no good way to show it on your person, please step this way and have a look at these MUSHA watches. They're made of Damascus steel, and in ...

Damascus steel is basically art in a material as the layers get built, this sword is especially awesome because it combines a 93-layer damascus technique in the blade with a twisted grip.

Salaudin’s sword was known to be a Damascine sword. There is now a general agreement that the Damascus steel which made its way into the western world through the crusades was produced in India ...

Making true Damascus steel is a lost art and even the modern version, made using two different grades of steel alloy, involves more art than science. Now researchers are bringing Damascus steel ...

At Middleton Made Knives in South Carolina, Quintin Middleton makes Damascus steel chef knives by welding two types of steel together. The bladesmith extends the concept of “blending” into his ...

Reibold's team solved this paradox by analysing a Damascus sabre created by the famous blacksmith Assad Ullah in the seventeenth century, and graciously donated by the Berne Historical Museum in ...