Hello all! in an effort to pay more attention to this website, I thought I would recap our most recent CDBA meeting. The demonstration was Paul doing a canister Damascus billet without the use of any welding or power equipment. Fish hooks and 1084 powdered steel were stuffed into a 1 inch thin wall square tube, the end was folded over and the whole thing was heated to forge welding temperature. The tube was beaten into a solid billet of pattern welded steel (Damascus). The canister got a bit toasty in the forge, and despite using white out, the can welded to the steel. I will forge it out to bar stock on the power hammer, and bring it in for show and tell for the August meeting.

As of yet there has not been a volunteer to do the demo for the August meeting, but I will keep you all posted!