While he was doing that, I worked my bar of meteoroid damascus out and folded it twice...



That gave a billet of about 136 layers, which looks like it will etch up nice.



Then we started welding up the blister steel to convert it to shear steel. According to a paper by Howard Clark, three cycles of folding should cause enough carbon migration to give even carbon content. The first weld on the plates of blister steel was ugly...



Once welded, we drew it out. This is single refined shear steel...



I took it home in this state. I'll need to fold and weld it twice more to get to triple refined, which was used for blades.  Below, a history of steel -



We worked will all of these this week - on the top, bloomery steel, then woortz, then blister steel, and finally modern steel.