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07-27-2018, 02:40 PM | #43 | ||||||
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Just adding to the discussion here, especially since Dr. Drew might respond to this query.
I have always considered and gotten the impression that Bernard Steel was considered a damascus steel. However, currently reading Ed Muderlack's Shooting Flying book and he refers to Bernard as being twist? Which would be correct?
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07-27-2018, 02:45 PM | #44 | ||||||
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I would consider Bernard Steel to be ‘pattern-welded steel’. Twist Steel wasn’t developed to repeat a ‘pattern’ so IMO Bernard Steel is closer to Damascus for the purpose of pattern welding.
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07-27-2018, 02:52 PM | #45 | ||||||
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It's...uh...complicated Bill
Leopold's company continued after his death, until about 1890. His company made twist, crolle damascus, and even fluid steel tubes. About every Belgian tube maker produced some variant of "Bernard" tubes. The 1897-98 Ferdinand Drissen Price List shows Heuse-Lemoine Bernard listed SIX times: ‘ribbon-barrel’, Grades 1st - 3rd, and I & II. This is Bernard Ribbon and probably a twist variant The Parker Bernard was mostly certainly damascus, by any definition 3 rod Parker Bernard refinished by Tom Flanigan clearly demonstrating 2 full width rods between 1/2 rods where the edges of the ribband were "jumped" Long version here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...P3FP0fXb0/edit
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07-27-2018, 02:56 PM | #46 | |||||||
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07-27-2018, 03:43 PM | #47 | ||||||
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To confuse things even more
"Twist" rods were NOT twisted before being wrapped around the mandrel and hammer forged Crolle damascus rods WERE twisted (Crolle - Crull - Crullen - Curlen are Middle English words that appear in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written c. 1386 and mean coiled or twisted) before being hammer welded into a ribband and then wrapped around the mandrel and hammer welded again https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...TayKKWCXc/edit
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