Three ESU steels normal blade wenge Patrick Teyke Article No. SW10015
Total length 32,00 cm
Blade length 18,00 cm
Blade material Markus Balbach Damascus steel BALBACHDAMAST ®, non-stainless
blade height 4,30 cm
hardness 62 - 63 Rockwell
Blade shape normal blade
Blade finish done by hand
back thickness 3,80 mm
quillons tool steel burnished
handle length 13,00 cm
handle material wenge
Knifemaker Patrick Teyke
Three ESU steels were used for the Damascus. Why?
ESU - Electro-Slag Remelting - improves the steel properties. Lowest sulfur and phosphorus contents, hardly any sulfidic and oxidic inclusions, highest toughness properties in longitudinal as well as transverse direction. Fine-grained microstructure due to continuous solidification, highest homogeneity.
The outer sides ( 51 layers ) are closed using the tungsten inert gas welding process, TIG for short, which creates a vacuum. There is no need for welding additives such as borax.
Then the damask package is heated in an electric furnace to the desired welding temperature and the steels weld themselves under pressure.
The precious wood of wenge used for the hilt comes from the tropical rainforests of Cameroon, Congo, Guinea or Gabon. This knife is strikingly original in its appearance, puristic and archaic.
Halt a Wenge-rl, very special. In no case only a wengerl, as they say in southern Germany and Austria for "a little".
