Save over 60% on these Damascus steel steak knives

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@Ryuthrowsstuff

Yeah I don’t think that the sort of manufactures who are selling millions of pattern welded knives a year are making billets one at a time on a power hammer. So “hand made” in the sense that a human is operating machines to smack together pre-existing stock.

Well no. The folks selling tons of blades are making billets one by one, but they’re really big billets made with magnificent machines. Then a whole bunch of blades get made from one billet. And almost all pattern weld is made from pre-existing stock. Well, except maybe tamahagane. And shear steel. Okay, so there’s a few that don’t use pre-existing stock, but almost all pattern weld is from other pre-made steel.

@Ryuthrowsstuff

You can’t exactly pour the stuff ready made from a smelter.

Unless wootz. Okay, not poured, but melted in crucible

@Ryuthrowsstuff

I would not order any of that. Indian and Pakistani steel is renowned for it’s low quality. Plus sweat shops. Apparently quality steel, including tool steel exists from these places. But you aren’t finding it, and I’ve never seen it. Supposedly goes mostly to construction stuff. I beams and heavy equipment.

This. I’ve seen some nice hypereutectoid steel coming out of India in the form of cheapo files, but that’s about it. The pattern weld stuff is crap, and as noted above Sweat shop = slave labor really. Also unsafe working conditions almost guaranteed to involve kids at some point in the process.