If you know your way around a forge and acid etching, you can make stuff like this

That looks so good

How is that possible

Ok, so ERB posted the rap battle between Joe Biden and Trump

It's called "Damascus steel." The process on how to make it was rediscovered recently on accident

Goddammit, Joe kinda slapped in it

Also hello, good evening/morning/afternoon/whatever

Two or more alloys of steel are repeatedly folded over one another at forging temperatures, then allowed to cool and acid etch

And it absorbs it??

The pattern and the design that you see are the result of the two alloys etching at different rates

The acid eats away at the surface of the steel

Oh

If I ever engrave something again I'll just stick to doing it by hand

They make some cool knives like that too

hello

Anyone watched the light house ?

Stock photo for a damascus steel that is actually blued

https://tenor.com/view/bonjour-party-inglourious-basterds-gif-14867086

> Stock photo for a damascus steel that is actually blued
@ThatShadyVandal Damn that’s nice looking

Bownjourno 🤣

that movie is great

I know right

If I ever decide to marry, I might experiment with machining some of this stuff

Those knifes must be expensive

Yeah 😂

Marfione custom knives like that one are priced at several thousand dollars apiece

that and django unchained

Yeah tarentino is a good director

ya hes one of my favorites

> Marfione custom knives like that one are priced at several thousand dollars apiece
@ThatShadyVandal Damn..

Not surprised.. but damn.

So what do you after you buy them just look at it all day

That’s what o would do

Pretty much

No, you use them

I'd never carry a 3,000 dollar knife

My most expensive pocket knife cost 135 bucks back when they still made that model

I wouldn't buy a 3,000 dollar knife

Right.. I carry the cheapest knife I own.. any that cost more than $80 live on my bedside table.. 😂

Kershaw makes a good knife for the money

Yeah. Gerber isn’t bad either.