Billet for Making Knife Blades (Ladder Damascus)

Excellent quality! Great price I bought it probably 4 years ago and I still haven't made anything with it luckily it's beautiful enough to just sit there! Cheers

This Damascus is beautiful. One thing you should know is that it comes quenched and hardened. It is a pain to drill through without carbide bits. Buy this, by all means buy it, but realize you will want to anneal it before working with it.

After many hours of work, found several inclusions/separations between the layers. After all the work, billet was useless for my intended purpose. So much time wasted.-UPDATE-GREAT customer service! After writing the company about the issues I had, they immediately sent me a new piece of steel. This second one was just completed and was much better constructed. Some minor inclusions on the edge, but nothing that I could not work around. The new piece was solidly welded and worked great.

Strong stuff. Not sure if it was really annealed when I got it. But made an awesome knife.

Lots of delamination and some electrolysis revealed that the piece is essentially shattered. This is trash steel. Couldn't harden it with parks 50 quench oil or water. Don't waste your money.

It is exactly what they advertise. This steel is extremely tough. I bought this for my first attempt at making a knife. While cutting it to shape I first used my band saw with a fresh blade. The band saw lost, loosing all of its teeth it barely scratched the D2. My angle grinder succeeded where the saw failed. Files barely touch this stuff. It is extremely difficult to work with.

This is a good chunk of steel. I forged it out to a Bowie and heat treated it. It sharpened up nicely! Tjhanks.

Father inlaw is an amateur knife maker and getting national recognition but he had a hard time working thus metal, kept splitting on him. Could be his fault, not sure of the quality.