Pressing it to flatten the ingot
into a flat piece (12" long, 2" width, 5/16" thickness)
(Picture 17)
How it looks after a rough grinding. You can see the chains, D2
(blue arrows) and 5160 (red arrows) (Pictures 18, 19, 20 and
21)
Once I had that ingot, I cutted it in half, and in the middle I
placed a piece of some damascus I had already made (100 layers of
1030 and O1)
When I get orders for some special knives, I make 2-3 damascus ingots
and I keep the best for that knife, and find what to use the rest
for (or design a knife I think it would look nice with that pattern)
(Picture 22)
Then I got it on the oven at 700C (Picture 23)
I added borax. (Picture 24) |