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 ...

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 ...

If you happened to be reading the “Science Times” section of The New York Times on Tuesday, September 29, 1981, you might’ve learned that a centuries-old knife puzzle had been solved. Along with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Testing the Temper. No such ailments seem likely to cut short Damascus’ career. Sired by Sword Dancer, himself a two-time winner of the Woodward, Damascus is as sound as his steely name and just ...