Stainless Steel Copper Damascus San Mai Billet – Wave Pattern – Pre-Hardened

Stainless Steel Copper Damascus San Mai – Wave Pattern

Pre-hardened San Mai knife steel featuring stainless steel Copper Damascus cladding in a flowing Wave pattern.

The San Mai construction uses a solid cutting core through the centre of the billet, with stainless steel and copper Damascus cladding on the outside. Once the blade is ground, finished and etched, the copper layers create warm copper highlights against the contrasting stainless steel pattern.

Supplied pre-hardened and intended for stock-removal knife making, so the billet can be profiled and ground without carrying out the initial heat treatment.

Specifications:

• Construction: San Mai
• Cladding: Stainless steel Copper Damascus
• Pattern: Wave
• Condition: Pre-hardened
• Recommended use: Stock removal knife making
• Forging: Not recommended
• Re-heat treating: Not recommended

Available sizes:

• 3 x 30 x 220mm
• 3 x 50 x 330mm
• 4.5 x 50 x 330mm

Because this steel is already hardened, drilling and machining will be more difficult than with annealed steel. Keep the billet cool during grinding to avoid affecting the existing heat treatment.

Pattern and copper distribution will vary slightly from billet to billet.