[Steppes] Damascus Steel Rediscovered!!!

[Ron Hardy]

This is not new info. I meet the blacksmith in question (Al Pendray) some 8-9 years ago at a
blacksmith school in Arkansas. Got to handle the steel and all. It does have a rather interesting
pattern to it. It was made by melting iron with oyster shells and other things in a sealed crucible.
The Blacksmiths magazines have been writing about this for 10 years. I have an article from 10 years
ago in my bookshelf.
I guess the paper thought they had just found something new???

Fritz



William Duty wrote:

> Greetings All,
>
> I found a link to this article on Slashdot of all places. Interesting that it shows up on a
> computer geek website but the article is very interesting. It describes how a 'country blacksmith'
> and a PhD worked together to recreate Damascus Steel by hand using Period methods. My favorite
> quote, "Sometimes I'd have to tell him, `I don't care if you've got a PhD, you don't understand
> what the hell's going on here,'". Wonder how long it will be until they start getting orders from
> SCAdian smiths for bars of the stuff?
>
> Anyway, here is the link,
> http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0108130162aug13.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed
>
> William Duty
>
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