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Sorry about posting images without any notes about making !
This one I remember!
64 layers
1/4 twists
http://www.internetbusinesslinks.net/album/tonn/1020201_IMG_2.jpg

With a little help from my photoshop - what you can do with it

http://www.internetbusinesslinks.net/album/tonn/kleebitud_copy.jpg

That's nice Tonn! One of the problems with the radial pattern I recently posted photos of, is that I just simply didn't fold enough to get the layer count where it should be. The "layer count" thing is so very important to a given design it seems. Some pictures I've seen with low layers look fantastic, as do photos of really high layer count. The radial pattern I did was done the same basic way as some of hte beautiful work of B. Buxton, but my layer count was WAY to low, and it didn't turn out well at all, where his is spectacular. This photo of yours, to me, is just right for the pattern. Someday, there'll be a book available about patterns and layer counts. The two go hand in hand. Also the way the steel is manipulated, either by forging in the accents, or by grinding them in (ladder for example, the grooves can be either ground in, or "pressed" in). These damascus making processes have be hypnotized!

Don't know about book, but we can create a kind of database for damaskus patterns!

That would be a great addition to the forums: A place where we could show the finished blade steel, plus how it got to that point, from the very beginning, along with how it was done. I'm still chomping at the bit to see Ed's new series of videos along these lines also. That'll be the biggest thing to hit the overall community to date, because we can actually watch a it's done. The explanations and pictures that people like Bowie, Fitz, Bill Buxton, and all the others has been the backbone of this, and it's growing. A great thing!

in the new Blade there is a article about J.Smith,he has a dvd now available the shows how to do damascus and he uses colored clay to demonstrate the different effects of folding,twisting and other manipulations,looks fantastic :101

The clay thing has been around a while, but I don't know if it's ever been explained or documented.