In this video, we'll be making wootz steel out of a bunch of springs! Not only is this a really fun and interesting project, ...

We cook steel for the blade from the bearing. In this video, we are making steel for a designer blade. With such a blade, you ...

Details of an inscription, probably the swordsmith's name, on a blade of Damascus steel The critical characteristic of wootz steel is the abundant ultrahard metallic carbides in the steel matrix ...

The blades used so-called wootz steel, smelted with a technique developed 2000 years ago in India, where craftsmen added wood and other organic debris to their furnaces.

The Mandalorian's sacred Beskar steel may well exist on Earth, in the form of Wootz steel. Let's take a look at its material properties.

A modern blade made of Damascus steel. Credit: Olmstead / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The metal used could be local, but it was also imported from the southern Indian subcontinent, where wootz ...