There’s nothing rare about modern Damascus. It’s pretty routine pattern welding and although it takes some skill to produce by hand there’s nothing really special about it and there have pretty much always been ways of industrially producing. Its just multiple steels folded together and acid etched to create a decorative pattern. Its common in higher end kitchen knives cause it looks cool.
Though the “Damascus” knives sold by the BB store apparently tend to be laser etched knock offs.
It shouldn’t be confused with the historical artifacts by the same name. The term has mostly referred to the patterning for a couple centuries.
