8/8" handforged damascus, bellied full hollow, with fossile bone

Hello,

I would like to share this special razor with you, which we had the opportunity to make for a customer.

It´s a 8/8" blade with a bellied full hollow grind, made from a handforged damascus billet from the Balbach forge in Germany. The Damascus is so called "Explosion" damascus, which is a twisted mosaic pattern.
The design is our so called "dragonfly" look combined with our "axelook".
The scales are made from fossile bone (Stellersche Seekuh) and have a DSC damascus wedge.

here are some photos:

http://www.koraat-knives.at/fotos/explosion/1.jpg

http://www.koraat-knives.at/fotos/explosion/9.jpg

http://www.koraat-knives.at/fotos/explosion/3.jpg

http://www.koraat-knives.at/fotos/explosion/4.jpg

http://www.koraat-knives.at/fotos/explosion/5.jpg

http://www.koraat-knives.at/fotos/explosion/6.jpg

http://www.koraat-knives.at/fotos/explosion/10.jpg

best regards,
Ulrik

Wish there was a "LOVE" button? WOW!
~Richard

Another superb razor Ulrik.

The bar is certainly being raised!

That is a serious piece of art. If it was mine, I'd use it once then put it in a display under glass. Very Nice!

Insanely beautiful grain pattern in that blade.
Axe shape is almost intimidating,,, almost,,,
totally love it though. Beautiful piece.
:tu

I love the way that the pattern of the damascus changes right at the belly of the blade.
Other than that the razor needs to be put on a pedestal under a spotlight...Wow!

Pete <:-}

Beautiful work Ulrik. I have a question. I notice that the bevel is not apparently Damascus. Is this a san mai forging, with the Damascus laminated around harder steel in the center?

...:mexwave:

I've never seen anything like it. AMAZING!!

That is lovely. Is that Steller Sea Cow fossil and was it stained to make it that color or is that natural?


Mike

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Originally Posted by jmabuse

Beautiful work Ulrik. I have a question. I notice that the bevel is not apparently Damascus. Is this a san mai forging, with the Damascus laminated around harder steel in the center?

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That is how I do mine.

You have seriously out done yourself. That is just an absolutely amazing razor

Please tell me that you had a striker.... or two. To anyone who doesn't know, explosion pattern is an incredible amount of work

Wow, that is a beauty. Amazing workmanship.

Hello,

thank you all for the kind comments! I am glad that you like the razor.

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Originally Posted by jmabuse

Beautiful work Ulrik. I have a question. I notice that the bevel is not apparently Damascus. Is this a san mai forging, with the Damascus laminated around harder steel in the center?

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No it isn´t a sanmai it´s a direkt lamination. So the edge part is not forgewelded between outer layers, it´s forged as one piece on the bottom of the blade. This method is necessary for very thin ground full hollows because the middle layer of a sanmai would come out in the thinnest part of the hollow ground and would interrupt the damascus pattern.

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Originally Posted by mglindo

That is lovely. Is that Steller Sea Cow fossil and was it stained to make it that color or is that natural?

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Yes it is Steller Sea Cow ( I didn´t know the translation) and it has it´s natural colour, it´s not stained.

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Originally Posted by bluesman7

Please tell me that you had a striker.... or two. To anyone who doesn't know, explosion pattern is an incredible amount of work

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I am not sure what a striker is, but I think you mean a blade that had to be discarded? That happens not very frequently and in this case all went well.
But the damascus blank was made for me by the Balbach forge in Germany. I don´t know if they had some issues ;-)

best regards,
Ulrik

Truly stunning work!

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Originally Posted by jmabuse

the middle layer of a sanmai would come out in the thinnest part of the hollow ground and would interrupt the damascus pattern.

Ulrik

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Ulric is correct. the first two razors on my site are done with sanmai construction, and you can see how far up the blade the pattern is removed because of the hollow grind

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Originally Posted by Ulrik

I am not sure what a striker is, but I think you mean a blade that had to be discarded?
Ulrik

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Here in the U.S. a striker is a smith's helper with a sledge hammer doing most of the actual physical work.

I thought that you were saying that the explosion damascus was hand forged without power hammers

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Originally Posted by bluesman7

Here in the U.S. a striker is a smith's helper with a sledge hammer doing most of the actual physical work.

I thought that you were saying that the explosion damascus was hand forged without power hammers

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Now I understand! The Balbach forge definitely uses a power hammer, but nonetheless the damascus is cut and stacked by hand and the final shape is forged by hand.

best regards