My first Damascus

[Benjy]

I am really happy with this, lots of hammering! I made this on my homemade brake rotor forge using charcoal, anvil and hammer.
It started as 5 layers. 1084,15N20,5160,15N20,1084 I was so caught up in the forging that I can't remember if I folded it 3 or 4 times.          

Anyway, the handle is my stabilized walnut with buffalo horn bolsters and mosaic pins.



 

 

 

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Beauty!

[bjansen]

Excellent!   Great job.

[madness522]

Nice job! Making Damascus by hand is not for the faint of heart!

[KSCATTRAPR]

Pretty neat, great job!

[TrackerNy]

Real nice work!

[Sockrsblur]

That's beautiful Benjy!
Any chance we could see a few photos of your homemade forge?  That would be interesting to me  

[Benjy]

I have another brake rotor that fits inside of this one that is deeper that I used to get enough heat to get to welding temperature. I am a beginner at this so I am open to all ideas and opinions!

The blower is an oven exhaust fan, I bought a variable speed switch to adjust the air flow.

[Benjy]

Originally posted by madness522:
Nice job! Making Damascus by hand is not for the faint of heart!

You have that right! I spent about 10 hours and 4 bags of charcoal on this one blade! It was worth it in the end!

[flyflinger]

Very nice!

[tippit]

Benjy,
Very nice!  You could almost buy a forge for the time you have into that blade  

[just_a_hunter]

I think it turned out very nice!

Todd