the wall of progress! love it! every blacksmith - bladesmith should have one!

Wow someone who knows what damascus is on you tube. Al Pendray would be proud. Tbh I'm quite proud. I've been interested in wootz Damascus since I was a boy. I'm nearly 50 now. Well done M8

The knife turned out amazing! Seems very strong and durable. I know the patterns will only get better. It’s an exciting journey!

Sometimes a project doesn't turn out the way we want. It's awesome that you are learning and growing! Thanks again!

Honestly, the fact that you GOT a pattern is amazing by itself...

This is incredible work and progress. I actually love the hamon line. Thank you.

this is the second video I've seen from your channel and I find your style very down to earth. you definitely have several things in your favor so if I may offer a small piece of advice. Don't beat yourself up, you're doing something that many can't. in the steel industry we have a saying " Not all men can make steel." keep it up I'll be watching.

Nital works well but I find that dilluted nitric acid does wonders for revealing the microstructure of wootz. Also less dangerous lol you dont have to worry about spontaneous combustion of the alcohol in solutions greater than 10% nitric.

really have to keep the Wootz at a very specific temp while shaping and it is painstaking because it only gives you a chance to shape it for a second or two before it has to go back into the heat, and you arent supposed to quench it at all. I think it supposed to be air cooled, just once, only when finished forging the ingot into its final form. Then sharpened after that. If you quench them they lose some of their moleculer strength and can become brittle at the blades edge. But damn that blade looks awesome, well done keep practicing and you will have it down perfect.

pendray roasts his longer and multiple times to control the cracking. i imagine the cracks are happening in the interfaces between cementite and the softer material. your water pattern looked really good. 👑 david

..making your own metal to make a blade, Kudos to you sir...!!

Best thing to do for epoxy stuck to a blade is to take a razor to the epoxy and usually when you make a cut inward you can lift up and usually most of it pops off sometimes you gotta take your time with it

Ok well I’ve seen a documetary where they actually got some true original wootz but they had to have it air tight

Best video I've seen so far

I'm not a blacksmith, but I do watch a lot of KZfaq. The best way I've seen to get the top ingot our of your blade was to weld a holding stick to the top and pound flats into the ingot by hand. After that put it in the press.

Man that stuff seems like a challenge

The overheating may have affected the pattern, next blade should turn out better. Nice knife though.

The Hamon gives it such an amazing style 😘

You definitely know what you're doing I've seen other videos and they messed up this part of the process in the beginning of forging...

Pimeässä pajassa on helppo pitää woodz terä taonnassa alle 800 celciusta , itse onnistuin hyvin kun 25 vuotta sitten taoin Juha Perttulan antamaa woodz terästä .

crushed it!

Could call it the "Wall of Learning."

After the board test I want to see you do the ABS tests with just woot steel knives.

If I would have seen this video about wootz before I voted, I would have voted for your dagger.

Wootz….. when ya melt it down do ya cover it with glass wich would melt first float to the top and seal the oxygen away from it?

Ukku Steel or Wootz steel is stolen technology from Southern India, it's almost 2200 yr old technology, even Romans used our swords. Muslim rulers exported these ukku ingots to Damascus who later renamed and stole the steel process as their own. Britishers when learnt about these steel sword technique, they took it to Europe and disbanded all local Indian blacksmiths who knew the exact process, most of such blacksmiths were killed or forced to be farmers. Over few generations the exact process of making non-rusting, feather weight, sharpest ukku steel swords was lost.

Looks more dendritic. Did you not thermal cycle?

Wait this isn’t real wootz is it?

Nano tubes

Don t say anyways, you ll take only one by one , so , say anyway