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    It had me fooled for a second when I looked at it just now.
    But maybe we can ask Mike how the metal should be folded to end up with the text 'damascus' coming out of the acid etch.



    And I am far from an expert, but if this thing is hollow ground, then I would expect the pattern to make a lot of sharp corners and jagged edges.
    For example, that thick white line that goes from the oe to the heel is much too uniform imo.

    But as I said I might be horribly wrong. It has been known to happen... (I am married. These days I am wrong most of the time )
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    Which makes you wonder....if a married man is alone in the forest....is he still wrong when he speaks and his wife can't hear him?
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    completely.

    But yes - according to every wife.

    Quote Originally Posted by LX_Emergency View Post
    Which makes you wonder....if a married man is alone in the forest....is he still wrong when he speaks and his wife can't hear him?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ByronTodd View Post
    completely.

    But yes - according to every wife.
    That's funny, my wife says I'm always right. What is strange is how she says it:
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    Lee, your wife says that, in that way, because it's a clue for you. From her perspective the conversation was over before you knew it.

    Unfortunately, I can't view ebay stuff at work, but I can glean from enough posts that the blade in question is likely to be simply etched to appear to be layered.

    I'll give Bill Moran credit for "re-popularizing" pattern welded steels in the US, 30+ years ago, but we shouldn't forget folks like Bill Bagwell, Daryl Meier and Bill Fiorini who were there in the beginning but didn't get the knife media to make them famous.

    Holland and Holland in the UK have been making pattern welded steels for gun barrels continuously. Manfed Sachse was working off old WW2 German billets until the 1970's and making new ones. The Japanese have been making pattern welded sword blades since before time almost with only a little hiatus and restarting in 1947. There is nothing special about US pattern welding. I'm surprised that more folks around the world arent' offended by our arrogance in that one item.

    It'd be possible to make a mosaic pattern or powder metal pattern that read damascus in the steel that would be more genuine than a simple etched surface. Not impossible, only complicated and there are plenty of knowledgable smiths in the US who could. Lots of layup time and materials preparation.

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