Bladesmith David Singer creates custom culinary knives, specializing in Japanese styles and pattern welded steel at his Acton forge. Gary Higgins / Boston Business ...

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 ...

Turning a pile of ordinary screws into a Damascus knife requires far more than heat and luck. This process begins by ...

Scandinavian metallurgists recreate legendary damascene-patterned steels from atomized metal powders. Damascene steel is an advanced form of blacksmithing recognizable by the decorative pattern on the ...

A new Kickstarter campaign touting the "world's smallest and sharpest Damascus pocket knife" aims to put the strength of a samurai sword in your trousers. Its makers claim Damascus steel makes not ...

Meriden resident Steve Culver deftly wipes the oil from the dagger's blade before immersing it in a ferric chloride solution. After placing the dagger in a vice on his work table, he and fellow knife ...

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

DOUGLAS — A Damascus Steel Japanese Tanto-inspired knife designed and forged by Master Bladesmith Jim Saviano of Douglas is being raffled to raise funds for the maintenance and preservation of the E.N ...

From Issue Five of Gear Patrol Magazine. Discounted domestic shipping + 15% off in the GP store for new subscribers. Bob Kramer, wearing a black welding mask and long leather apron, flipped a switch ...

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 ...