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Maker's Mark

            A pattern-welded blade by Pete Mattila of Hobart.

This particular blade is one of a trio of such hand-forged pieces created by Pete, artist, designer and blacksmith.

Pattern-welded steel is often mistakenly referred to as 'Damascus steel' but there are notable differences in production techniques, chemical composition and metallurgy in a historical sense. Sufficient differences in fact to start whole wars on blade smithing forums so not going there... :-)

This particular blade is made from railway steel and another, higher carbon steel being forced together under extreme temperature and pressure - either by press or hammer.

The unique banding in this one-piece blade comes from the many layers being twisted very tightly together at the end of the welding process and when close to white hot. The blade shape has then been hammer forged out of the circular blank. The twisting is visible in the handle.

They are a very pretty blade after pickling in acid then strong coffee :-)

Nikon Z 6, Nikkor Z 24-200/4-6.3, 1/160th sec at f/6.3, ISO 400.

Taken on: October 17, 2021

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