I have a variety of steel combinations and patterns available for every application to a high performance custom knife or a wedding band.
Pattern welded steel for sale.
Make up a 3 bar seax billet using twisted bard and folded bars of pattern welded steel 2 layers of twisted steel giving the distinctive chevron patterns of the anglo saxon seax and and then high layer piled steel damascus steel at the edge.
Good compression is the key to bringing the weld surfaces firmly and completely together.
Steel in this period was filled with impurities so they would minimize the chances of an impurity causing a catastrophic blade.
Work the steel by hand and under the power hammer to forge the twisted and folded billets.
Shaping and grinding the rough blade into finished shape reveals.
Pattern welded swords show a distinct interwoven figuring in the steel that imparted an especial beauty and visual liveliness to the blade.
This combined herringbone core with hardened steel edges gives the blade the pattern so typical of the best north western european blades from the 3rd century through to the 9th century.
Steel used in pattern welded.
I offer it in many sizes for most any product you may want to produce.
A pattern welded blade begins life as a stack of different steel grades known as a billet.
For this a hydraulic press is probably the best but a larger hammer with a good amount of compressive mass behind its blow will also do the job.
Our stainless damascus carbon damascus and mokume gane are forged with expertise and careful attention to detail and are available in a stunning array of striking patterns so whether you re producing damascus steel blanks or designing custom jewelry you ll find exactly what you need here.
Pattern welded damascus steel scimitar is a hard heat treated folded carbon steel.
There are 11 pieces of steel folded five times making 352 layers.
The first step in creating a billet and pattern welded blade is to select the types of steel which will be used for the blade.
Pattern welded steel needs to be squeezed in order to weld nice and tight.
I was among the first to produce stainless damascus and the first to sell it regularly and commercially.
On to the herringbone core are welded either 1 or 2 carbon steel edges depending on the design.
Stainless damascus of course.
Twisting heating and hammering drives the crystalline structure of the steel to form the wavy watery pattern which the technique produces.
It is from this billet that the multiple layers and patterns of a pattern welded blade originate.
The throwing ax is made from pattern welded damascus steel.
Vegas forge produces the finest damascus steel for sale with a focus on craftsmanship.