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Originally Posted by Ray Rogers
You didn't offend anybody concerning stock removal.
As for the patterned steel, you probably won't be doing much of that by hand. If making that steel is your goal be prepared to spend huge amounts of money (as many of us already have so we can make that steel) ...
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Yeah doing things like Damascus would be cool but isn't really something I plan to do any time soon. I was more referring to the patterns that are created by just folding a single billet over it's self and forge welding it; rinse and repeat. Since Japanese smiths have been doing this process by hand for hundreds of years and some smiths still do it this way to this day I figure it should be doable without any fancy tools, just a hot forge some flux and sweat. Yeah I know it's a lot more work than just cutting up some stock and welding it into a billet with a bunch of layers that never have to be folded, but I don't plan to buy a welder any time soon, so hard work it'll be.