doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Couple of modern damascus questions

See Flodman and Damasteel websites. Some gunmakers might look at Damasteel's price list to see if it is possible. These are what are known as sintered damascus, a different process, but gives the same basic result with a very strong steel.

There seem to be a non-trivial number of older damascus tubes out there as we see from the links posted earlier. I thopught Greener were actually making up some guns from vintage tubes. I know Hollands made up a set of barrels for a Purdey hammer gun about 1980. Again, they used existing tubes and the whole exercise was quite successful. The new barrels passed nitro proof and are shooting happily to this day. Davis Winks did the work. Apparently one of the biggest challenges was making and attaching a suitable set of lumps for the straight tubes. I think someone here ought to spend the 600 quid and purchase two tubes to try it again.

Is there a desire for Damascus barrels or just the appearance thereof? If the desire is for the latter would it not be a lot easier to finish the externals of modern steel barrels in a kind of "faux Damascus" in a similar fashion to what is currently being done with some production knives? Greener notes that, in the old days, similar "tricking up" was done by laminating a thin layer of Damascus onto plain iron barrels or by by "decalomania".