In this project, we take construction knives and transform them into a beautiful BEBUT knife made from the legendary Wootz ...

In this fascinating video, we explore the ancient art of sword making by forging a traditional Wakizashi from WOOTZ steel, crafted from nothing more than rusty springs. WOOTZ steel, famed for its ...

Band patterns of wootz steel (left) and Damascus steel (right). Credit: Rahil Alipour Ata Abadi / Wikimedia Commons This was not unique in history, of course. In antiquity, Noric steel was also highly ...

Damascus or Wootz is crucible steel, patern welded is not Wootz and does not give same properities of steel. In Wootz you put iron ore some aditives plants and sand in crucible then you melt it.

These ‘Damascus blades‘ were extraordinarily strong, but still flexible ... Wootz, with its especially high carbon content of about 1.5%, should have been useless for sword-making.

In Wootz and Damascus steel, these patterns are formed by folding and working the steel, so that iron carbide layers line up, creating intricate patterns.

Cherished by caliphs and sultans, swords made from “Damascus steel” have long been renowned for their razor-sharp edges, extraordinary durability — and great beauty. Writing in 1960, Herbert ...

Damascus blades were, until the 18th century, some of the finest examples of the blacksmiths art. They were manufactured during the middle ages in Syria and were renown for their ability to hold ...

Wootz, a method of steel production lost for hundreds of years, gained its curious properties through a natural process of carbon nanotube formation, according to Nature. The revered Damascus ...

If you happened to be reading the “Science Times” section of The New York Times on Tuesday, September 29, 1981, you might’ve learned that a centuries-old knife puzzle had been solved.. Along with a ...

Unsurprisingly, Damascus steel's name comes from the city of Damascus, capital of Syria. Between the 3rd and 17th centuries, the Near East region imported wootz steel from India and Sri Lanka.

Damascus blades were forged from small cakes of steel from India called 'wootz'. All steel is made by allowing iron with carbon to harden the resulting metal. The problem with steel manufacture is ...