Thread: Source for Damascene steel

Originally Posted by Raudrive

This is a serious possibility.

Have you gotten a price list yet? I wonder how small an order they will sell/ship?


Thanks for the link!

I just found it and wanted to share. I am not into making my own shavers.

Awesome Kees, I'll have a look at that myself.

Just realised that there's a guy in Holland selling that stuff. Nice to know where he gets his materials.

Edit: I sent away for a pricelist. Maybe in the future I'll do a knife or even a razor out of this stuff.

Just got a reply. They won't send me a pricelist because the NL already has a distributor.

And he's REALLY expensive.

Guess I won't be buying any of their stuff then.

Who is their distributor?

One of our members, Mike Blue, makes pattern welded Damascus steel.
Contact him.

looks like damasteel to me
if you dont want/need stainless Damascus there re many places to get good patterent welded steels
you jsut havet o make sure that they dont have pure nickle in ther mix as it will not get hads

mixes liek 1080-95 and 15n20 or O1and L6 are good razor mixes

Here's the US distributor. Products.html

I have an EDC blade, carried for ten years that was made of this steel. For stainless stuff, and one of the first of the sintered powder metal materials to be engineered both for nice patterns and cutlery quality steels, it's pretty good.

I know prices are always subject to debate, but knowing most of the good makers in the US, for this material the price is really pretty fair considering what you get for the money and the fact that shipping from Sweden and customs are buried in there somewhere.

I'm still firmly in the carbon steel camp but see reasonable things on the other side. Call me an independent voter.

Originally Posted by Kees

Who is their distributor?

in the Netherlands it's the Gatherwood knife/knifemaking shop. They have some good stuff but are a bit on the pricey side. For less money I'll buy supplies from the states or in Germany.

He's a real nice man other than that though. I talked to him briefly at the Dutch Knife Exhibition.

I just did a price check. Turns out the dutch distributor is around 50% MORE expensive as the american one.

Dutch price: Odin's Eye pattern: 7,20 euro's per CM
American price: Same pattern: +/- $16 per INCH.

Dutch price in inches: 7,2 X 2.5 = 18 euro's= $23.83 US