Making Damascus steel is a very laborious and lengthy process, which requires a lot of experience and knowledge of smithing.The technology is provided by the creation of high-quality products through optimal interleaving parameters differ in layers.As mitigating layers between the substrate containing a high percentage of carbon, low carbon steel are used.Because of a combination of Damascus steel is particularly acute and hardness.
History of
Blades started damask, never produced in large quantities.They are always present in a single copy, and different unique structure, which has no comparison.Damascus steel, and today - is, above all, extraordinary quality and inventiveness of the master.The name of the alloy comes from Damascus, located in Syria, which was a major center of a wide variety of crafts in the Middle East.Nevertheless, there is an opinion about the invention of the alloy in India.The first Europeans to see the product of this steel in Damascus since the alloy is called "Damascus steel," by which is used at present.The technological process was very difficult, and the secret of its manufacture is very carefully guarded.This explains the very high cost of weapons made of an alloy of Damascus.By the nature of the product can identify the master, who produced it.Every blacksmith its distinctive style and "handwriting" of the secrets of heat treatment.
process of creating
Damascus steel, the production of which is the correct choice of steel grades, the knowledge of their chemical composition, high-quality treatment, is characterized by an unusual pattern of the blade.The group of Damascus steel are refined steel and welding Damascus.The secret is to carefully combined plates of preforms with different carbon content.Billets are interconnected by welding and forging.The process can be repeated many times.The result is an alloy with a combination of advantages of iron and high-carbon steel.Stainless steel material of the plate is heated in the forge, and then harvesting prokovyvayutsya intensively in the forge.
Thus, a higher strength alloy.Next blank unfetters the plate, cut, and again placed into the furnace.The process can be repeated a few dozen times.Some blades blanks may have up to 500 layers of steel.To obtain a characteristic pattern on the blade, the workpiece is etched.
Mosaic Damascus
Recently mosaic Damascus has great popularity.Damascus steel made in a manner different from the forge that the design pattern is performed in advance by placing the profile and contrasting metals in the workpiece.After the parts are connected by forging billet is created within a composite package.Industrial production damask uses the same principles as the author Damascus.
