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Forging Blades

April 11, 2013

A single blade for a Damascus knife is made up of a hundred layers of super-heated steel. Warburg smith Hans Jürgen Kugland pounds them until they actually fuse together. A knife with the authentic reticulated Damascus patterns starts at 360 euros.

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