knife with Damascus steel blade and horn handle
Details:
- Total length: approx. 23 cm
- Blade length: approx. 13 cm
- Blade material: Damascus steel, 144 layers
- Handle material: cow horn
- Includes leather sheath
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Handcrafted knife with a blade made of 144-layer Damascus steel and riveted handle scales made of cow horn.
The knife comes with a simple leather sheath.
The term Damascus steel , Damascus steel or just damask refers to a composite steel made of two or more different types of steel. The name is derived from the Syrian city of Damascus, which is considered the former stronghold and origin of Damascus steel production.
Typically, a hard, high-carbon steel and a soft, low-carbon steel are brought together by repeated forge welding and folding. The high-carbon steel provides greater hardness, better hardenability and longer edge retention, while the softer steel gives the blade greater elasticity and greater breaking strength. This technique, which was developed at a time of poor and changing steel qualities, can therefore combine the positive properties of the different steels.
Due to the different colours and varying carbon content, impressive patterns of alternating layers are created, such as twisted, so-called. Torsion Damascus , or in Rose damask . Not least because of these patterns, the damask blades of the Middle Ages were said to have an inherent magic. The Edda describes such a damask sword blade as a bloody worm or a poisonous snake.
