Damascus Steel Part 3 4 Lanham Scrimshaw 4 WG Nessmuk 4 Unfinished Projects 4 No Meetings for Awhile
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KNEWSLETTTER IN A KNUTSHELL 4 Damascus Steel Part 3 4 Lanham Scrimshaw 4 WG Nessmuk 4 Unfinished Projects 4 No meetings for awhile Our international membership is happily involved with “Anything that goes ‘cut’!” April 2021 Damascus Steel Part 3 Gene Martin So far we’ve talked about the origins and basics of making Damascus, or pattern welded, steel. Since there is a reason for it being called pattern welded steel, this missive will discuss Image 1580 - A low layer billet with reverse twist. Three pieces actually putting patterns in the steel. While the article about will be stacked to form the full billet. making Damascus was very broad and general, now we’re going to get much more specific. As we discussed before, a billet of pattern welded steel starts life as a stack of steel pieces of alternating types of steel. Forge welding that stack into a billet produces basic random pattern Image 1583 - A fold too far. The pattern is so fine it’s hard to see. Damascus. While random pattern can be really attractive, it is seldom exciting. Manipulating that pattern starts down the road towards exciting. Some of the basic patterns are ladder and twist pattern. Let’s discuss how those patterns are created. Ladder pattern is created by creating vertical grooves, hopefully evenly spaced, down the length of the billet. Those grooves can be created with a file, a grinder, or dies in a press or power hammer. More Image 1590 – A four bar composite pattern. Bought this from Tru-Grit from an estate. No idea who made it. My hat is off to on dies later. whoever did it. If those grooves are done by cutting into the material, that changes the layer count between the grooves and billet surface. To take advantage of this, the billet is forged flat. That compresses the layers next to the grooves. The result is a tighter pattern/looser pattern contrast. Using dies changes the process a bit. Dies are made by raised Image 1591 – A stretched pattern and recessed areas. Unless the grooves are really deep, the raised areas are then ground down to remove the raised layers. After that the billet is forged flat. This again produces a compressed layer contrast. Deeply grooved billets can sometimes be forged flat without grinding the raised areas. Twisting a billet to make a twist pattern is fairly simple but with Image 1592 – Pattern from a tree shaped die some quirks that need to be addressed. The billet must first be squared before twisting. Rectangular billets create problems. Once the billet is squared, it’s a good plan to then forge it round. There is a quirk that the raised corners of a square billet create stress risers and form cracks. Forging the billet round reduces those stress points. Image 1607 – Billet with tjree thicker layers of 15N20 Once the billet is forged round, it is heated to welding in a vise and a wrench is used to twist the billet. That wrench temperature and removed from the forge, one end is placed is often a pipe wrench with a handle welded to the top jaw. Continued on page 6 Thank you Roy Humenick for your Lisa Wages deserves a special The Seek-Re-TaryOKCA coordinationFree Classified of our 2021 OKCA Club Ads thank you for maintaining the Report Knife. We were overwhelmed with Facebook page. It has received Free classified ads willorders. run up Itto threewas issues something and then be for dropped. which Available we onlya lotto paid of members. requests Write toyour join ad on andanything you elayne have handy (except bamboo leaves) and email or snail mail to the OKCA, PO Box 2091, Eugene OR 97402. The number and size of ads submitted by a singlewere member not prepared. will be accepted, We or received excepted, dependent orders on availablepost items space forand thecomment mood of the or editors. sale. 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To date we easy for us to have had nine patterns of GEC knives please everyone. The 2021 OKCA Show offered to our OKCA members.