That's the knife I was thinking of when I mentioned the game scenes. The construction of the scene was done by cutting the elements with a wire edm, slightly tapered so they seated into the female block for easy welding. No lack of skill in reducing the billet with essentially no distortion. Steve Schwarzer did the forging.
There are some hurdles to overcome for the production of a damascus barrel that will have a solid core to produce a rifle barrel capable of modern pressures, but I think it's worth doing. There was a patent for such a barrel issued in 1918 or so.
A mosaic damascus action complimented with damascus fittings would be nice enough, but the same rifle with a new damascus barrel in a modern cartridge would be quite a feather in a makers cap.
