Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Forge presses are used to in a wide range of fascinating forging and blacksmithing work...but they're mission critical for making Damascus steel. In this video, knife maker Walter Sorrells shows how he makes a variety of dies for his hydraulic forge press. He'll show drawing dies and spreading dies, as well dies made specifically for developing patterns in Damascus steel -- in this case for making raindrop and ladder patterns.

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