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    Mosaic Damascus Rides Again!

    Dec 22, 2020 4 minutes
    BY LES ROBERTSON BLADE ® FIELD EDITOR

    I was introduced to damascus at the 1986 BLADE Show. The steel had been around long before then, but it was the first time I got to see and handle knives sporting blades of the material.

    The two makers who stood out to me then were Wild Bill Caldwell and Wayne Valachovic. Bill was exhibiting a bowie that had a blade of damascus in a , a truly stunning knife. Wayne displayed the first damascus folder I had ever seen. His steel was comprised of 36,000 layers. You would, of course, have to take his word for that*. The bolster and fileworked spine also were damascus. Like Bill’s knife, Wayne’s folder was stunning. Random-pattern

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