Seventy random screws become the raw ingredients for a Damascus billet—heated, crushed, and forge-welded into a solid block ...

Metallurgists have puzzled for several centuries as to how the unique patterns on the ancient Damascus blades were formed. Using a modern metallurgical computational software package, the relevant ...

Raw steel is heated, layered, and forged into a Damascus axe through a full blacksmithing process. What begins as simple ...

In Sweden the unlikely duo of Mr. Johan Gustafsson and Patrick Sjogren have become rising stars of horology. One a bladesmith and the other a watchmaker, together they make up the boutique watch brand ...

Engineers from the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (MPIE) in Düsseldorf and the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology in Aachen have combined ancient and modern technology by developing a ...

If you grow up around a working blacksmith’s forge, there are a few subjects related to metalwork on which you’ll occasionally have a heated discussion. Probably the best known is the topic of wrought ...

LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, January 20, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Noblie Custom Knives today announced an expansion of its U.S. workshop dedicated to mosaic ...

Damascus steel—and modern versions of the steelmaking technique—is generally synonymous with artisan forgework. In traditional Japanese sword-making, for example, the steel is repeatedly folded to ...