If this has already been answered a thousand times before, just steer me to some articles that you might have seen.

I have been wondering about modern damascus for shotgun barrels, since you see an increasing number of newly made knives with damascus blades for their visual appearance.

With today's modern steels, could a newly made damascus barrel be just as strong as a new fluid steel one?

With technolgy today, could the damascus process be automated like standard barrels, assuming of course there was sufficient demand?

I was just thinking it would be nice to have a new modern SxS with damascus barrels that you could shoot all you want, without paying the equivalent price of a new car.

Thanks.