Damascus Knife Blade

[Richard Flanders]

A fellow here in Fairbanks makes damascus knife blades by laying chainsaw chain on old files and forging and twisting them into damascus with a trip hammer. They look very nice and seem to sharpen to a very good edge. I brought him a bundle of old files I found at an abandoned gold mine for he and his students to play with.

[Steve McCarty]

Here's my SERE school survival knife. They said it was made from the left spring of an old Ford. It is very hard, and holds a hard, sharp edge. I bought this from a Negrito native in the Philippines. He had a scar in his forearm from a Japanese bayonet. This guy really hated Japanese.