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Excuse me, how is the Damascus knife made?

The knife-making technology of Damascus knife is a complicated and time-consuming process, from design, material selection, forging, forming, grinding and polishing to a whole set of processes, which tests the basic skills of knife makers.

Modern Damascus knives mostly adopt folding forging technology. We take the combination of Damascus knives in craftsmen's workshops as an example to illustrate the birth of a Damascus knife.

↓ Craftsman Workshop Damascus Knife: Combination

Several steels with different properties are stacked together, sintered and forged.

Fold, twist and forge repeatedly until several steels are fully compounded to form a knife blank with both rigidity and flexibility.

Open the forging blank according to the design.

stop

Make a handle

Grinding edge

Make scabbard

accomplish