Student forging their first Damascus billet! It was also his first time using a powerhammer! He did really well and was really getting the hang of it. We started with 8 pieces of 3”x1.5” 1084 and 8 pieces of 15n20. Cut, cleaned, mig welded then forged down to 1/2”thick. Then cut into 3rds, cleaned restacked and forge welded to go from 16 layers to 48. After that was forged down to 1/2” thick He might use that as is to forge a knife, or cut in half to double the layer count. We’ll see what he dec

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