[TheForge] raindrop damascus

Thu Feb 12 12:04:01 2004

Isn't the "pool and eye" pattern made by drilling the billet?   Grant 
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From: "Ralph E Douglass" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] raindrop damascus


> Daniel Kretchmar wrote:
> > 
> > What if the holes don't close?
> > 
> > Daniel Kretchmar
> > www.irontreeworks.com
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> As long as you are not drilling too deep and as long as you use care in
> drawing it will pose not problem. At least that is how I seem to
> remember Ray doing it. But his prefered way was the press.... It was
> much faster.....
> 
> As Dan Tull said, try out stuff. in pattern-welded stuff it is all about
> experiemnetation and I repeat and documentation of EVERY step so you can
> duplicate it at will.
> 
> Ralph
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