In this project, we take construction knives and transform them into a beautiful BEBUT knife made from the legendary Wootz steel, known for its strength and unique patterned design. Wootz steel is a ...

Archaeologists in Poland uncovered 26 iron objects made from a single meteorite. The artifacts, discovered during excavations ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Around 800 A.D. crystallization (Wootz or Oriental) Damascus developed in the Middle East and India. ... "The Wootz blades exhibited exceptional strength, toughness, ...

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 ...