Damascus knive.... en ny ære er blevet til

22. mar, 2011

Excellent Edges and the new Damascus Laminated Stainless Steels of the 21st Century, the first update to Damascus Technology for 1700 years !!

 
Damascus Steel has almost universal meaning to everyone. For almost 2000 years these steels have had extraordinary folk lore - such as silk or a hair being cut by just landing on the blade or the blades cutting other swords in half. Recently,  modern scientific methods of Electron Microscopy have shown that the inner secret of the Damascus lies in narrow bands of Carbon Nanotubes and  Carbide Nanowires  formed around accidental impurities of Vanadium and Tungsten that were in the original Indian Ores 2000 years ago. These give the Damascus its fabled strength, durability and flexibility.
 
Damascus Laminated Steels have been hand made and used for tool and weapon making in many cultures since around 300 AD.  These were carbon steels and so rusted easily. Stainless Steels invented in modern times contain about 15% Chromium and this alloy prevents water rusting the steel, but it also makes the steel  impossible to hand forge weld together in the way that traditional Damascus blades were made. So until recently no Stainless Damascus Steel was able to be made.
 
In the last ten years several Japanese companies have co-operated to use modern scientific metallurgical techniques – controlled atmosphere pattern  welding  –  to produce the first Stainless Laminated Damascus Steels as raw materials for Bladesmiths and Scissorsmiths like Excellent Edges. Now we have premium quality Damascus Stainless Steel raw material to make the worlds strongest lightest sharpest blades.  These Steels are in our ‘Sword’ Blades. These steels are now part of our Soul.
 
 
We are proud to be able to sell the extraordinarily beautiful hand forged Chef Knives from Mr Sone at the TadaFusa Smithy in Japan.  This multi-generation smithing family Hand Forge full taper wedges to craft these exquisitely  balanced knives.  They do not use the strip steel and machines that most other knife makers use these days. We can see the centuries of hand skill accumulated in these knives – right down to the use of heat treated Hinoki (Japanese Cypress) wood for the handles (so they will last for a century) and the Water Buffalo Horn sleeve for its strength and water resistance.  Hundreds of layers of High Carbon Blade Stainless  forged into the flowery grain pattern of a premium blade. Poetry in Blades from the old Master. Puff Pastry in Steel