Looking at the steel all extended out like that really makes me wonder how Jean Delcour and his crew ever figured out how to "write" names in the Damas. And then to do it over and over again in the barrel, quite amazing. It is a shame that damascus barrel making is a lost art. But if they were made today we probably would not appreciate them as much as we do. I really sorta hate to buy a gun that doesn't have a set of damascas barrels on it. Seems that a gun with fluid steel does not have much personality. Even though I do own one or two of em.