Good place to start
https://docs.google.com/a/damascuskn...Ns5L2XVfc/edit
Short version
It all starts with the
lopin or billet: thin strips of iron and steel called '
alternees' or leaves.
The l
opin is heated, hammered, and rolled into a rod, stripe, band, blade, iron, or rope – THEY ALL MEAN THE SAME THING and in the finished barrel are described as a 'scroll' by their appearance in Crolle pattern damascus.
The scrolls are larger in 2 Iron/Stripe and (usually) progressively smaller 3 to 4 to 6 Iron. The size of the scrolls is dependent on how tightly the rods are twisted before being hammer welded into the ribband AND how many
alternees are in the rods.
2 and some 3 Iron/Stripe crolle patterns usually have 7 or 8 steel (which stain black) and 7 or 8 iron (which do not stain so silver)
alternees or leaves within the scroll.
2 Iron
3 and 4 Iron might have 6 and 6.
D3 refinished by Dale Edmonds
4 and 6 Iron usually have 4 and 5 or 4 and 4. End on view of a rod with 4 steel and 5 iron
alternees
4 Iron
6 Iron
