Let me add fuel to the debate. With serious confusion folllowing the responses to my previous post and the advice I received from Les Hobcroft, I sent the barrels to a metalurgist and he performed Magnaflux testing and magnified visual inspection of the barrels. He could not find any evidence of welds or seams in the barrels. So, I still do not know if I have damascus barrels or not. Believe me, I am not questioning anyone's expertise. I just would like to deffinatively know if the barrels are damascus.
