DAMAST Three ESU steels Tanto blade Walnut Patrick Teyke Article No. SW10021
Total length 41,50 cm
blade length 27,50 cm
Blade material Damascus steel, not stainless
blade height 4,40 cm
hardness 62 - 63 Rockwell
blade shape tanto blade, japanese shape
blade finish done by hand
back thickness 3,80 mm
quillons tool steel burnished
handle length 13,00 cm
handle material walnut grained
Knifemaker Patrick Teyke
Three ESU steels were used for the Damascus. Why?
ESU - Electro-Slag Remelting - improves the steel properties. Lowest sulfur and phosphorus contents, hardly any sulfidic and oxidic inclusions, highest toughness properties in longitudinal as well as transverse direction. Fine-grained microstructure due to continuous solidification, highest homogeneity.
The outer sides ( 51 layers ) are closed using the tungsten inert gas welding process, TIG for short, which creates a vacuum. No welding additives such as borax are needed.
Then the damask package is heated in an electric furnace to the desired welding temperature and the steels weld themselves under pressure.
And if it says walnut, that means welsnut. The European precious wood par excellence. An individualist, likes to stand alone, rarely set as an avenue. Welschnuss because it came to us via France and Italy, the Romans.
In Germany they say: Well, he who has the Wa(h)l has the torment? Right, walnut.
