Quote Originally Posted by MinniesMate View Post
Is Damascus steel harder/softer or just more attractive than carbon steel?

Does the use of borax in the steel (saw it added on another video) give it the characteristic variations?
Pattern welded steel has no metallurgical advantage over modern homogeneous steels and in fact there are several points in the process of making it in witch one could ruin the steel. It is a display of skill and aesthetics nothing more. True Damascus steel or Woots is a different matter all together but the advantages it gives are of little consequence to a razor