Watch as we forge a beautiful feather-shaped knife from Damascus steel! This video takes you through every step - from raw ...

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… ...

Steel not made in Damascus. Early descriptions of the metal date at least to the 1500s, but many scholars believe Muslims from Egypt to India used it for hundreds of years before that.

Shia pilgrims from Syria and abroad used to flock to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine outside of Damascus every year to commemorate Ashoura, a solemn day marking the 7th-century martyrdom of the Prophet ...

Damascus Steels From Powder Metal. Nov. 18, 2004. Scandinavian metallurgists recreate legendary damascene-patterned steels from atomized metal powders. Jean M. Hoffman.

And it is well known that the more layers the better, until they are invisible, what I will start selling as “homeopathic damascus”. I will contend that properly chosen and treated mono-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 ...

The premium on this Damascus edition runs about $15k higher than the base Chronos lines (thus, Chronos Damascus safes start at about $75,000), which in no way covers the development costs involved ...