You lost me at widoors...are you referring to windows that are made up of spun glass centers (that kinda resemble the bottoms of coke bottles)? Those aren't bottle bottoms, those are the thick, less tranparent centers of large panes of window glass left over from tin-float glass production.

Here is the problem...we don't have that mind set anymore...years back men knew basically that carbon could be folded into the composite steel...even though the metalurical molecular absorbtion wasn't understood...it stands to reason that one fold won't do it and the more the folds, the more uniformly or thoroughly the carbon was folded in, resulting in a stronger material. The more the folds, the stronger the steel. This type of mind set travelled well...even to the cowpoke out west, buyin' a furrin gun...I believe that it was this mind set that drove barrel industry to produce finer and finer damascus.

We have such along way to go in our understanding of damascus...how are we ever going to deal with the "false gates" that were used to protect the trade secrets...

Last edited by Robert Chambers; 10/07/07 08:05 PM.