Along with time and experience, comes building your reputation, which often has a profound impact on each Bladesmith's pricing structure.
Of course the elephant in the room is knowing what YOUR market will bear in terms of pricing.
It's just "the nature of the beast" that comes with what we do. Even with that, it's not unusual for me to see 30-50% reduction by weight for "simple" patterns, and 50-80%+ loss when it comes to Mosaics.
#Dimascus steel lost to time how to#
(I run a 110lb Say-Mak air hammer, and a large 80 ton press named "Orange Crush") 😎 Large tools that allow me to work large billets, in as few heats as possible, and learning from experience, how to more closely forge to my desired level of complete, which means I have to grind away less to get to a finished item. First, over time I have changed my shop and the tools to get layer counts up with as few heats as possible. How do I overcome these issues/the loss of material? 2 things. Those can also be moving targets, changing with each billet I make, and the desired outcome. how many times the steel goes in/out of the forge (loss from scale), and how cautious I am when it comes to "trimming" any areas that might have some MIG material left from the initial stacking, and/or how much I must grind off when re-stacking, rough grinding, or any other action that removes/takes away material. That being said, and speaking only for myself, the loss I see in materials has always been due to two things.
How much "loss" can depend on a great many factors, which is why there isn't a single, simple answer. OK.enough of that.įirst point, "loss" of material is a simple fact of what we do as it applies to creating Damascus, layered steel, laminate, or whatever label someone applies. I had to laugh when you spoke of what occurred on FB! FB and YouTube are two of my biggest nemesis from a teaching standpoint, you rarely get "good" information from either, and I cannot count the number of hours that I have spent "unlearning" students who have spent their time on either, versus actually forging.
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