Just for the heck of it, I thought some of you here might enjoy seeing some of the other type knives I make.
This is a highly complex multi-bar Damascus Bowie with steel I made called "Turkish Twist".
Not something you'll see every day:

Wow. That's an unbelievably beautiful knife. Do you do the leather work also?

quote hooky: "Wow. That's an unbelievably beautiful knife. Do you do the leather work also?"

I do my own, yes, but the customer who bought this knife had a sheath maker do it.

This is a group of knives I recently did showing my simple - yet effective - sheath work. This knife in this thread is the second from the right:

Wow.

I think this is the nicest knife I've seen yet, a true work of art.

Karl, I can't find the right words to convey how beautiful I feel the look and craftsmanship of this knife to be. I'll go with outstanding for right now. That sheath really does it justice too.

The particular beauty of that damascus pattern really intrigues me to want to know what you used in its making and how you fold/work it to make the design. If it's a closely guarded secret I will understand. :) I frequent a number of knife forums just to learn and glimpse the perfection of the "art" and you have nailed it.

An off the wall observation/question. In the picture I referenced in this response: in the second row of pattern down from the spine and about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way up from the tip one of the "X" designs is all white while there isn't another one like that that I could see. Any idea how that would happen?

Again, a wonderful knife and I hope you keep showing us your work!

Lots to cover here.
The blade is made from six individual bars - 48 layers each - twisted 20 times.
Those 48 layers are 24 layers each of two different types of steel. One of those types has 3% nickel in its alloy.
These bars are about 1/2 inch round each.
Each of those bars is forged into a square.
Those bars are placed in a stack and forge welded into the blade shape.

The all silver spot you see is not unlike the all black areas you may also see along the row in the cutting edge. There are two different types of steel in the recipe of steel used.

The bar below is 48 layers - 24 each - of the two different type steels mentioned above.
It starts like this - 12 layers. Forged welded into one block of steel. Drawn out and cut in four pieces. Re-stacked and forge welded -= 48 layers.




This bar is about 3/4" square and divided into five equal pieces. Each one of those sections will become a row of twisted steel in the final blade.




The bar, above, will get a bit unwieldy as is gets smaller and longer, so I cut 2 of the five pieces off and put them on their own handle.




Drawn out to about 3/8" diameter they look like this - about 2 feet long on that longest one.





Then cut into five equal lengths.

I grind the ends square so I can get them in a twisting jig ........




......to heat them up to about 2300 degrees and twist each one 20 full revolutions:




This is one of those bars forged square and drawn out to about 3/8" square. it has been dipped into and acid to reveal a bit of the twisted effect of the two different types of steel. With the acid etch, the steels show differently by their alloys reacting to the acid in a different way.



I had another knife going, as well, and show both of them here. These are the bars in their stack prior to forge welding into one. Also, alternating bars are twisted clockwise and then counter clockwise. You can see that in the knife.

This is a "raw" picture of the blade after finished in my shop.
Au natural.

I hope this helps.

Thank you very much for showing/explaining all of that. The amount of work that particular blade must take shows layers of knowledge and artisan-ship that match the layered steel itself. It's work to be proud of for sure.

Very well said. I've been looking at the above picture for a good while, mesmerizing work one might say.