1. Different steel properties:
Traditional hand-forged Damascus steel is basically a high-carbon steel, which has considerable advantages in the balance of hardness and toughness, but has poor rust resistance. It needs to be kept clean or use knife oil during daily maintenance. Ruifan is machine-made stainless steel, and its rust resistance is generally better than traditional hand-forged Damascus steel.
2. Different processes:
Traditional hand-forged Damascus steel is a handicraft, while Swiss powder is an industrial product. To make Damascus steel by hand, two or more steel materials are stacked, heated, forged, folded, twisted, and processed into a knife blank that is both strong and soft.
Ruifan adopts rapid sintering powder metallurgy technology to achieve the composite of multiple materials, and then twists and presses it to obtain good performance and pattern layering patterns. Whether it is Swiss powder or traditional Damascus steel, it can be pickled at the end to enhance the contrast between light and dark patterns, making the pattern look more concave and convex.
3. Different patterns:
Traditional hand-forged Damascus steel has patterns that are naturally formed during folding and forging. The patterns are natural and continuous from the inside out, like flowing clouds and flowing water. . The pattern of each Damascus knife made by it is unique, and the pattern is not exactly the same on every different surface, or even on every different part.
Extended information:
Damascus knives (Scimitar) are made of Utz steel ingots and have cast patterns. They are usually scimitars. Their biggest feature is that the blade is covered with various patterns. It's like moving clouds and flowing water, so wonderful. This pattern is formed during casting. For a long time in the past, the unique smelting technology and forging method of the Damascus knife has been a technical secret of the Persians and unknown to the outside world.
The Damascus knife is represented by Iran. Iran's ancient iron soldiers were extremely famous. At that time, the royal families of Mongolia, India, Turkey and other Eastern countries all hired Persian craftsmen to cast their weapons. However, the shapes of the weapons in each country were different, and the blade makers did not leave any inscriptions. As time went by, people have It is impossible to identify that it was man-made by Persia, so it can only be represented by domestic weapons in Iran.
In comparison, the veins of the smelted patterned steel blades produced in Persia are like silk textures, with a dazzling luster; the horizontal veins of the patterned steel blades produced in India are often in the shape of dozens of cloud trapezoids, that is, The so-called Mohammed's ladder is ingenious and expensive; the pattern of the Turkish knife is in the shape of a scroll, and its veins are like an agate shape.