Check out Chuck Pippin's random-pattern Damascus blade, made as a 60th birthday present for Buzz Smith and presented at the 10th annual Gathering of the Tribes last weekend in Grand Rapids. You can read about it on the KSMA blog, by Jay, Terry, and Chuck, here.
Plus see pictures, including the pink bunny slippers presented to Bobbe Edmonds.
3 comments:
"It began as 16 layers of high carbon steel, folded five times…to end up with 256 layers."
Sometimes it's hard having an arithmetic coprocessor running in my head all the time.
16 * 2^5 = 512, damn it.
16
32
64
128
256
my apologies...I counted the starting point. :-)
It is definitely a beautiful blade. I was very impressed with it.
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