Pattern Welded Steel For Sale

It is from this billet that the multiple layers and patterns of a pattern welded blade originate.

Pattern welded steel for sale.

Steel used in pattern welded. Steel in this period was filled with impurities so they would minimize the chances of an impurity causing a catastrophic blade. I was among the first to produce stainless damascus and the first to sell it regularly and commercially. Pattern welded steel needs to be squeezed in order to weld nice and tight.

Pattern welding was first developed by the celts and later the vikings out of necessity. The throwing ax is made from pattern welded damascus steel. Twisting heating and hammering drives the crystalline structure of the steel to form the wavy watery pattern which the technique produces. Shaping and grinding the rough blade into finished shape reveals.

Good compression is the key to bringing the weld surfaces firmly and completely together. I have a variety of steel combinations and patterns available for every application to a high performance custom knife or a wedding band. I offer it in many sizes for most any product you may want to produce. A pattern welded blade begins life as a stack of different steel grades known as a billet.

Work the steel by hand and under the power hammer to forge the twisted and folded billets. The first step in creating a billet and pattern welded blade is to select the types of steel which will be used for the blade. On to the herringbone core are welded either 1 or 2 carbon steel edges depending on the design. Vegas forge produces the finest damascus steel for sale with a focus on craftsmanship.

Stainless damascus of course. There are 11 pieces of steel folded five times making 352 layers. Pattern welded and folded swords are similar but different techniques and produce quite different looking patterns in the steel. For this a hydraulic press is probably the best but a larger hammer with a good amount of compressive mass behind its blow will also do the job.

The steel is the perfect combination of hardness and durability with a rockwell hardness rating between 55 and 56 hrc. Make up a 3 bar seax billet using twisted bard and folded bars of pattern welded steel 2 layers of twisted steel giving the distinctive chevron patterns of the anglo saxon seax and and then high layer piled steel damascus steel at the edge. This combined herringbone core with hardened steel edges gives the blade the pattern so typical of the best north western european blades from the 3rd century through to the 9th century.