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Message no. 1
From: Mike Elkins <MikeE@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: Katanas (was Allergies)
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 10:29:15 -0500
>For the expensive one, serveral hundred layers
>of different types of steel are forged and
>folded into a single blade. (I don't know the
>english word for that kind of blade, in german
>it's "Damaszener Klinge".)

Damascus steel. As one of the few people with
actual first hand experience: its a true pain in the
ass to make, even something an inch or two
long. For a sword? Be prepared to pay for two
months work by a highly skilled profesional.

There is, however, no better way to make a
sword. Period.

(Actually, to be strictly acurate, Japanese
Katanas aren't made of Damascus steel but with
a slightly different technique. The underlying
theory and end results are the same, though)

Double-Domed Mike
(who took a seminar in blacksmithing, folowed
with a month long Damascan steel workshop).
Message no. 2
From: NightLife <habenir@******.SAN.UC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Katanas (was Allergies)
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 13:21:12 -0400
>Damascus steel. As one of the few people with
>actual first hand experience: its a true pain in the
>ass to make, even something an inch or two
>long. For a sword? Be prepared to pay for two
>months work by a highly skilled profesional.
>
>There is, however, no better way to make a
>sword. Period.

Ohh Damascus steel <drool> best steeli in existance with out a doubt using
the old ways.

>(Actually, to be strictly acurate, Japanese
>Katanas aren't made of Damascus steel but with
>a slightly different technique. The underlying
>theory and end results are the same, though)

One thing you have to remember they had to work with a very poor grade of
iron which at first was very brittle is a testmament to human ingenuity to
come up with the folding technique to make it as strong and sharp as they
were. Although for the best sword damage check out a tulwar ohh nasty.

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